Show HN: MeScript, music programming language inspired by Lisp

vegnus 25 points 1 comment September 04, 2026
quadracollision.com · View on Hacker News

Inspired by TidalCycles, Strudel, UltimateSound Tracker. Lisp shaped DSL for making music. Has a bunch of synths. Samples don't work in web version. Try it out! Help section has placeable blocks to get started easily. There's also a language reference in the top left menu.

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vegnus

(ins :sine :src :sine-synth :note (p (times 12 [a3 c4 e3 g2]) (times 12 [a3 c4 eb3 gb2])) :fx nil :dur nil :amp nil :voice nil) (ins :kick-808 :src :kick-808 :note (p (times 12 [0 0 0 0]) (times 12 [c4 0 0 0])) :fx nil :dur nil :amp nil :voice nil) (ins :hat-808 :src :hat-808 :note (p (times 12 [0 0 0 0]) (times 12 [c8 d8 e8 g8]) (times 12 [c4 0 0 0])) :gate nil :fx nil :dur (p (times 12 [0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1]) (times 12 [0.3 0.4 0.2 0.5])) :amp nil :voice nil) Small example to try it out

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