[LAU] Text to Midi

[Michal Seta]

+1
I am interested, too.

Perhaps you guys know Grace (http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/). It's not
command line and it has its own GUI but it's perfectly suitable for
composing (via programming, either in scheme or its own built-in language
SAL) and writing compositions to MIDI, Lilypond (needs fomus library),
CSound etc. If you really need to use CLI, you can build it from sources
and you get a cm binary that can be run as Emacs inferior process.

But I am sure you knew all that already...
Cheers!

./MiS

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:10 PM, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 06:33:24PM +0100, Nils wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:41:46 -0500
> > "S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:52:21PM +0100, Nils wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:40:17 -0500
> > > > "S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > One important way in which I have made music on Linux in the past
> is
> > > > > using text-to-midi software to create tracks. The software I used
> back
> > > > > then, and have used occasionally in the past few years, is
> midge[1], a
> > > > > text-to-midi programme written in perl with a strong emphasis on
> > > > > randomisation (randomised timing, weighted random note selection,
> random
> > > > > block selection, etc.). Allas, it does not appear to have been
> updated
> > > > > in nearly six years now, and, though it still works fine for my
> > > > > purposes, I'm wondering whether I should switch to something new
> before
> > > > > diving back into text sequencing. Does anyone know of other such
> > > > > programmes offering similar randomisation features? I've heard good
> > > > > things of Bob Van Der Poel's mma, but its focus seems more on
> templating
> > > > > styles and quick composition: is that correct?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated, as always.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > S.M.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. http://www.undef.org.uk/code/midge/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes,
> > > >
> > > > use Laborejo (www.laborejo.org)
> > > > without the GUI, by writing text/command files. You will,
> essentially, write a very high level Python source file which instructs
> Laborejo to generate a midi file.
> > > Thanks, Nils,
> > > I didn't realise Laborejo could be used without a GUI; I will
> definitely
> > > have a look at the language and what it can do and get back to you.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > S.M.
> > >
> >
> > There is nearly zero documentation. Thats why I suggested the IRC
> channel.
> So I realised. Unfortunately, IRC is tough to do with kids prancing
> around, which is the normal state of affairs here. :)
>
> Let me know if you have an example up. I tried looking in the tarball
> but didn't really find anything.
>
> Cheers,
> S.M.
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