28 Jan
2005
28 Jan
'05
6:58 p.m.
On Friday 28 January 2005 22:40, Mark Constable wrote:
It's also interesting to be able to use standard
linux shell
tools like grep and awk, plus any scripting language or any
text editor, to tweak and even create MIDI files from scratch.
There is another text to midi "compiler" here that I ported
from some older code a few years ago...
http://alsa.opensrc.org/midicomp/
It is nice to know that there are several alternatives to choose. I've found
more references at linux-sound.org:
- Folly: a text-to-MIDI program written in Perl/Tk
Dead link, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/serissa/
- Midge: Midi sequencing from the comfort of your text editor
http://www.dmriley.demon.co.uk/code/midge/
(This is a Perl based programming tool)
- GMC: Guenthers Midi Compiler, a tool to convert text to midi.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Software/8918/linux/index.html
Both Midge and GMC are based on some kind of music description languages. In
this area is worth to mention Lilypond because it generates MIDI files and
nice scores at the same time, using also an input text describing the music.
OTOH, midicomp and midicsv are very similar, based on a text format
representation very near to the SMF format.
There is even a pure PHP based implementation of the
same old
codebase somewhere on the net... a neat way for a website to
manipulate MIDI files online.
I think you mean this one (PHP MIDI Class)
http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/
Regards,
Pedro