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# Big Picture
Let's answer some basic questions: what exactly is Cagire? What purpose does it serve? Cagire is a small and simple piece of software that allows you to create music live while playing with scripts. At heart, it is really nothing more than a classic step sequencer, the kind you can buy in a music store. It is voluntarily kept small and simple. Adding the Forth language to program steps allows to create pattern and behaviors of any complexity. Forth also makes it super easy to extend and to customize Cagire while keeping the core mechanisms and the logic simple.
Let's answer some basic questions: what exactly is Cagire? What purpose does it serve? Cagire is a small and simple piece of software that allows you to create music live while playing with scripts. At heart, it is really nothing more than a classic step sequencer, the kind you can buy in a music store. It is deliberately kept small and simple. Adding the Forth language to program steps allows you to create patterns and behaviors of any complexity. Forth also makes it super easy to extend and to customize Cagire while keeping the core mechanisms and the logic simple.
Cagire is not complex, it is just very peculiar. It has been created as an hybrid between a step sequencer and a programming environment. It allows you to create music live and to extend and customize it using the power of Forth. It has been designed to be fast and responsive, low-tech in the sense that you can run it on any decent computer. You can think of it as a musical instrument: you learn it by getting into the flow and practicing. What you ultimately do with it is up to you: improvisation, composition, etc. Cagire is also made to be autonomous, self-contained, and self-sustaining: it contains all the necessary components to make music without relying on external software or hardware.
Cagire is not complex, it is just very peculiar. It has been created as a hybrid between a step sequencer and a programming environment. It allows you to create music live and to extend and customize it using the power of Forth. It has been designed to be fast and responsive, low-tech in the sense that you can run it on any decent computer. You can think of it as a musical instrument. You learn it by getting into the flow and practicing. What you ultimately do with it is up to you: improvisation, composition, etc. Cagire is also made to be autonomous, self-contained, and self-sustaining: it contains all the necessary components to make music without relying on external software or hardware.
## Scripts, Not Notes
A traditional step sequencer would offer to the musician a grid where each step represents a note or a single musical event. Cagire replaces notes and/or events in favour of **Forth scripts**. When the sequencer reaches a step to play, it runs the script associated with it. A script can do whatever it is programmed to do: play a note, trigger a sample, apply effects, generate randomness, or all of the above. Scripts can share code and data with each other. Everything else works like a regular step sequencer: you can toggle, copy, paste, and rearrange steps freely.
A traditional step sequencer would offer the musician a grid where each step represents a note or a single musical event. Cagire replaces notes and/or events in favour of **Forth scripts**. When the sequencer reaches a step to play, it runs the script associated with it. A script can do whatever it is programmed to do: play a note, trigger a sample, apply effects, generate randomness, or all of the above. Scripts can share code and data with each other. Everything else works like a regular step sequencer: you can toggle, copy, paste, and rearrange steps freely.
## What Does a Script Look Like?