Clamps Overview

Common Music (also called CM) is another crucial component of Clamps. It has been developed since the early 1990s by Rick Taube and is released with an open source license. Common Music was primarily conceived to facilitate algorithmic composition on the Metalevel¹. Initially written in Common Lisp, it has since been transformed into version 3 using the Scheme programming language, adding sophisticated realtime capabilities likening it to the purpose of Clamps. The system used in Clamps is based on the last Common Lisp version 2.12, released around 2008/2009. Although this version already contained realtime capablilities, this functionality has been adapted in Clamps using Incudine. Clamps extends the functionality of CM by adding classes for SVG import/export as well as SFZ and sample based in-/output realized with Incudine.