9 Mar
2012
9 Mar
'12
3:40 p.m.
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/
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9 Mar
9 Mar
3:52 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:40:17 -0500
"S. Massy" <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
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.
Plus you get Lilypond/PDF with one line more.
It can do most of the "Current Features" listed on the midge website, and more.
I see details which it cannot do, but I have the infrastructure to include these in a very
short amount of time.
Contact me in the irc channel #laborejo on irc.freenode.org or use the
http://www.laborejo.or forum, but IRC will be better for an initial talk, so I can see
what you really want to do.
Nils
6:33 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:41:46 -0500
"S. Massy" <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
There is nearly zero documentation. Thats why I suggested the IRC channel.
But I am interested in this topic myself, so I think I will write an example file and
upload it into the git repository.
Nils
8:10 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 06:33:24PM +0100, Nils wrote:
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.
19 Mar
19 Mar
3:06 p.m.
+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(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
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