Chat-Controlled Bogosort Music (ChomboSort) | NEW FEATURES: Change the Instrument & More!

Full command syntax reference: https://bit.ly/chombosort-syntax

New member-only features:
▶ Change the melody instrument with one of the following commands: rhodes, rhodes2, organ, pipeorgan, vibes, marimba, nylon, electric, strings, brass, whistle, beep, synth, dreamsynth, shortsynth, glisssynth, vocal.
▶ Use a cymbal pattern of any length between 1 and 16 (e.g. cym200, cym2010, cym1000200020120020, etc.).
▶ New chords: 7sus2, 7sus4, 9sus4, min7#11, min7b9.

Become a channel member to help keep this channel viable, and unlock full access to all commands, including tempo changes, muting instruments, changing the drum pattern, changing the color theme, and custom note specification:    / @algomotion  
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Chat-Operated Musical Bogosort (ChomboSort) is an extension of the "Bogosort Sheds" videos from ‪@AlgoMotion‬, wherein you (the users in chat) control the notes bogosort plays by typing commands.

Bogosort is a (poor) sorting algorithm that attempts to sort a list by randomly shuffling it, checking if it's sorted, and trying again repeatedly until it's sorted. In ChomboSort, the elements in the list are mapped to musical notes which you see and hear being played back in real time as the sort proceeds.

The stream ends when the list is successfully sorted. With an 8-element list, the probability of a successful sort on any pass is 1/(8!) = 1/40,320 ≈ 0.0000248.
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The general syntax is: "BassNote.MelodyNotes", for example:

Eb.Bbmaj7 C.Ebmaj7 F.Fmin7 Bb.Bdim7

For a I-vi-ii-V in Eb major.

When you want to use the same melody note root as the bass note, you can use the shorthand notation and just specify a single note, e.g.:

Ebmaj7 Cmin7 Fmin7 Bb7

If no chord is specified, a major chord is assumed, so "C G F G" is valid syntax.

To lower or raise the bass note, use a comma or apostrophe, respectively. For example: "C,.C'maj" plays the bass note an octave lower, and the melody notes an octave higher.

Use "b" and "#" for flat and sharp, respectively. The commands are not case sensitive.

If any part of your command is considered invalid syntax, the whole command will be ignored. Refer to the syntax guide (https://bit.ly/chombosort-syntax) for a complete command reference.

ChomboSort is written primarily in Java using the Processing graphical library (https://processing.org/), and gRPC (https://grpc.io/) to connect the major system components.
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