RESONON

Resonon ships with its own audio and MIDI engine. It loads VST3 and CLAP plugins and routes and modulates anything. A project and package system shares kits, patches and whole pieces, and a native-extension interface calls into Rust when you need to go deeper.

use "std/instruments" { Sampler, Kit };

let drums = AudioTrack("drums");
drums.set_instrument(Sampler(Kit("CR-78")));
drums << [bd _ sd [_ bd]];

let bass = MidiTrack("bass");
bass >> MidiOutput("synth");
bass << [C2 _ [E2 G2] _];

PLAY;

Selected in VSCode and evaluated, it plays, and you change it while it does. As a project’s src/main.non, with render(8); in place of PLAY;, resonon run bounces it to a WAV file — the drums, since a MIDI track’s notes go to a synth, not into the file. Two ways to run a piece says which is for what.

The manual

Start with Getting Started, then follow the numbered learning path. Each tutorial includes a starting-state check so an earlier exercise does not keep playing underneath it.

Tutorials Learn by doing. Start with Getting Started: install, make a sound, build a beat, save a project and arrange a short song. Then follow the learning path through live coding, language, patterns, harmony, mixing and modulation. Choose MIDI, DSP or visuals after that.

How-to guides Get one job done. Each guide is one task, grouped by topic: setup, running and rendering, patterns, audio, MIDI, DSP and visuals.

Reference Look it up: every function and method of the standard library, the language, the mini-notation, the CLI and every setting.

Explanation Understand why: the two ways to run a piece, how patterns and cycles work, how the audio graph is built, and why resonon behaves as it does.