Python For Musicians

This repository contains the lesson resources for the Python For Musicians course given by Andreas Papaeracleous on YouTube.

Course playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8TsbTO4sR8bbqEl8wYlx3FDFv9kj12eJ&si=Xm5RvIFzeUqIHEjn

There shouldn't be any need to clone this repository, it's here as a reference to the videos. The scripts here are not necessarily the same as those in the videos - I encourage you to type them out yourself, especially if you are new to this. Just like with playing an instrument, practice makes perfect.

Contents:

Lesson 0 - Getting up to speed

• Setting up a python environment through miniconda
• Setting up a python project location
• Navigating the terminal to the project directory
• Assigning variables
• Commenting
• Basic data types: integers, floats, bools and strings
• Mathematical operations: +, -, *, /, **.
• Defining functions
• Comparisons
• If, elif, else statements
• Best practices

Lesson 1 - Lists and NumPy Arrays

• Defining lists
• Accessing list elements
• Installing numpy
• Using numpy arrays

Lesson 2 - The Sine function and plotting

• Properties of the sine function
• Setting the frequency accurately
• Showing identities
• Plotting with matplotlib.pyplot
• Homework assignment

Lesson 3 - Audio I/O

• Basics of digital audio
• Sample rate (A.k.a. Sampling frequency)
• Preparing audio files for python synthesis
• Tuples
• Using librosa.load()
• Using soundfile.write()
• Digital Synth introduction

Lesson 4 - Classic Wave Shapes

• Creating triangle waves
• Creating sawtooth waves
• Creating square waves
• 2 ways for pulse-width modulation
• Creating chords
• Ring modulation

Lesson 5 - OOP and the AudioProcessor class

• Defining and instantiating classes
• Processing blocks of audio
• Using the audioProcessor to build a basic random granulator.

Lesson 6 - Live Audio Processing

• Opening audio streams
• Audio stream settings
• Reading audio streams
• Writing audio streams