Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album
A downloadable tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album (or Bosca Ceoil Blue, for short) is a simple and beginner-friendly music making app. Using a step sequencer you can create anything from a simple beat to a complex melodic piece — with huge selection of synthesized instruments!
Bosca Ceoil Blue is a modern port of Terry Cavanagh's Bosca Ceoil, and attempts to preserve everything that made the original so approachable and intuitive. And just like the original, Bosca Ceoil Blue is absolutely free and provided under a permissive open source license, should you need to modify it.
Features
Playful and intuitive pattern editor
Begin writing music quickly with a playful piano roll sequencer. Create patterns of notes and experiment with timing and tonality to find your unique sound. Adjust the scale to give yourself a constraint that ensures your music always sounds great!
Drag'n'drop-based compositor and arrangement editor
Just as playfully rearrange your patterns on the timeline, create variations and make adjustments. Use up to 8 channels to play multiple patterns and instruments in parallel. Block by block, build your multi-minute song!
Over 300 synthesizes instruments
Powered by a versatile software synthesizer, Bosca Ceoil Blue offers you pretty much any instrument you can think of! Don't like how your tune sounds with a piano? Swap it for a guitar with a swift adjustment. If you feel adventurous, make sure to take a look at instrument tuning.
Ready for production and consumption
Export your creations to WAV and MIDI. Share them with the world, or use them for your next game or video!
Works across all desktop devices
Whether you use Linux, macOS, or Windows, you can create music with Bosca Ceoil Blue. A web version is also in the works, with a potential port to Android as well.
Community and support
Bosca Ceoil Blue is an open and community-made project. Your participation is very welcome in any shape and form!
- For bugs, please consider creating a bug report in the project's repository on GitHub.
- For new features, please start a discussion in the same repository.
- For work coordination, and just to chat about the project, please join our Discord server.
You can support the continued development of the project financially by leaving a tip with your itch.io download, or by donating via Patreon! Every dollar helps, so please consider donating even if it's a little. Thank you very much <3
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Development log
- Bosca Ceoil Blue 3.0-beta1 has released!10 days ago
Comments
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this got me thinking how cute it would be if godot got its own built in music editor like pico8... i wonder how much work it would be to port the format from this program to work with godot's sound and music functionality
Don't threaten me with a good time!
What you need is a synthesizer. Godot has support for generated audio streams, but how it is generated is up to users to implement. This is what Bosca uses. It has a custom software synthesizer and it produces data for the Godot’s audio stream to play back.
You can totally make an editor plugin similar in functionality to Bosca Ceoil. You can probably even adapt the app itself into a plugin relatively easily. The app is just a bunch of fancy UI on top of the synthesizer, but you can make whatever you want with the synthesizer. It’s also open source and free to use :)
This creates a very strong argument for not having a music editor as built-in functionality.
ah yeah, you know, in retrospect that makes a lot of sense, it's probably better if fans and devs can make their own stand alone synths rather than pre-boxing one in with the program itself, in pico8 it works because everything is supposed to be self contained, but not everyone will want to use the bosca synthesizer in their godot project, so it would just be extra bloat to the engine for people who want to make their own
Thank you for porting Bosca Ceoil to Godot!
You got featured on Games From Scratch!
Yeah, I quite noticed :) Thanks, Mike!
yeeeaaaah!!! :D
i love what you're doing here! however in linux i start off having a good experience until the music starts to get crunchy and my whole pc slows down to a near hault, and this is with only one pattern and no other programs running, thankyou for devoting time to this project btw:)
Oh, that’s unfortunate. Sounds like a problem with the synthesizer. I don’t have a Linux system, but I’ll try to investigate. Thanks for the report!