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Show HN: Code music in Python that generates MIDI
Interesting approach. There has been much activity in recent years in live coding with a lot of interesting solutions.
> most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting
Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours. There is also an algorithcmic composition language called SAL which is used in Common Music (https://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) and Niquist (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nyquist/).
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alda VS midica - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2023
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If musicians named programming languages, what would we be working in?
As a semi-serious answer Alda: https://alda.io/
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Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
Look into Alda music programming language - it's possible to write classical music with it. It's more like MIDI or classical notation - you don't care about sound but you specify notes.
https://alda.io/
- Alda – text-based programming language for music composition
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“Compiling” Music
check out https://alda.io/ - it takes some form of music notation and plays it using general MIDI synth
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Questions on Alda
Hi! The way it works is that you save alda files to a text file, then you play them using the alda player using the command line. I haven't looked into Alda 2 yet, but you can take a look at the documentation here
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
Looks like a previous version was mostly a Clojure DSL, but the latest major version no longer is. There are variables and other useful features we know from other programming languages that aren't mentioned on the landing page.
Of course there are also varying definitions of what a programming language is. For instance, I consider CSS to be a programming language, but I know many people disagree with that position (and that's okay). I personally don't think that a "programming language" must be a general-purpose, turing-complete language. Alda seems to be a non-general purpose, turing-incomplete language. At this point though, we're maybe getting into semantics a bit.
Syntax change: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/alda-2-mig...
- Alda – a text-based programming language for music composition
mmlgui
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
Indeed, MML is mentioned here: https://blog.djy.io/alda-a-manifesto-and-gentle-introduction...
This is another interactive MML project worth checking out: https://github.com/superctr/mmlgui
What are some alternatives?
textbeat - 🎹 plaintext music sequencer and midi shell, with vim playback and the powers of music theory 🥁
chords2midi - Create MIDI files from numerical chord progressions!
homebrew-lilypond - Install LilyPond from homebrew/core instead of this tap: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lilypond
Orca - Esoteric Programming Language
extempore - A cyber-physical programming environment
MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
melrose - interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI
Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.
miti - miti is a musical instrument textual interface. Basically, its MIDI, but with human-readable text. :musical_note: