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Renardo ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Configure other code editors

FoxDot editor has several drawbacks. You could use another option to livecode FoxDot/Renardo.

You need first to start renardo in supercollider (Renardo.start;)

Flok collaborative editor

Flok is a web based editor for livecoding collectively different languages for music and visuals (supercollider, mercury, tidal, foxdot, renardo, hydra, maybe GLSL shader soon).

You need first to install nodejs 18 or later and install npx with the command npm install -g npx

Then launch the web editor : you can use https://flok.cc or launch your local server with npx flok-web@latest

Then create a renardo pane from the selection top left menu and open Configure in the top right menu. You’ll see a command line that you can paste in your terminal like:

Terminal window
npx flok-repl@latest -H wss://yourserver \
  -s yoursessionid \
  -t renardo \
  -T user:youruser

You can then activate renardo code in the editor (CTRL+RETURN) and it should produce sound (if the supercollider backend is started).

Beware that ALT+RETURN activate the whole file.

Pulsar Editor

(quite popular in the algorave scene with hydra/tidal/VEDA/sclang options)

  • Install Pulsar code editor with your package manager or downloading it from : https://pulsar-edit.dev
  • Install the official Pulsardo extension (Settings > + install search for Pulsardo)

Go to pulsardo extension settings and either:

  • If you installed renardo as a binary:

    • Renardo Binary Path is the path to renardo binary e.g. C:\somewhere\dir\renardo.exe or /home/machin/Desktop/renardo/renardo
    • Renardo Launch Arguments : --pipe

  • If you use renardo as a python library

    • Renardo Binary Path is the path to python interpreter where renardo is installed e.g. /home/machin/Desktop/virtualenv/bin/python
    • Renardo Launch Arguments should be : -m,renardo,--pipe

  • Open some python code file

  • Hit Ctrl+Shift+P search for Pulsardo Toggle

  • You can then activate renardo code with Ctrl+Return or Ctrl+Alt !

Vim

You need to install renardo as a python library and install for instance vim-slime plugin.

  • open a musicodewhatever.py buffer and a python REPL
  • send from renardo_lib import * to the REPL
  • then send renardo code bloc to the REPL and it should produce music !
  • You can quickly select a whole code bloc with VIM combo vip before sending to REPL

Emacs

Same as Vim with the SLIME plugin and from renardo_lib import *

VSCode/VSCodium

  • Install Python extension
  • facultative: Install Vim extension to use vip to quickly select a block
  • Create a python code file
  • Write code from renardo_lib import * and hit Shift+Return to send it to Python REPL
  • You can know select any musical code and use Shift+Return to execute it into the REPL