Top 5 C++ music-composition Projects

helio-sequencer

17 2,992 9.0 C++

One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile

Project mention: Helio: Libre Music Composition Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-10

I downloaded this and played around with it a little.
I’m a little skeptical of something that ditches traditional music notation for piano roll, doesn’t offer any ways to reorganize sections of your song, and then gives you a bunch of tools for key signatures, modes, polymeter, and microtonal music. I’m trying to think of a programming analogy—it’s like checking out a new programming language that has dependent types, higher-kinded types and monads, and a borrow checker, but no strings or integers.
It’s really easy for those of us with analytical, mathematical minds to go diving into the more esoteric parts of music theory. Set theory, microtonality and alternative tuning systems, esoteric scales and cataloging all these different scales—but then you fuck up the basics or miss them completely. I noticed that the “major” scale is only available under its more esoteric name, the “ionian” scale, and then there are five different versions of locrian to choose from, not counting the ones outside 12-EDO.
https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-sequencer/blob/develop/Res...
Even with all these esoteric features, there is no such thing as, say, Eb. There is only D#. As programmers, we really want to normalize all our data so that it’s represented in exactly one way, but as a musician I like having both sharps and flats around. They’re convenient and make the music easier to read.
This is a neat tool for playing around with scales and tunings, but it seems like absolute hell to try and write music this way.

giada

4 1,623 9.7 C++

Your Hardcore Loop Machine.
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powertabeditor

5 505 7.7 C++

View and edit guitar tablature.
snestracker

5 195 0.0 C++

Super Nintendo Entertainment System Music Software. Super Famicom Music Software
hmsl

1 89 5.2 C++

Hierarchical Music Specification Language, Forth tools for experimental music from the 1980's

Project mention: Make signed HMSL app for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-16

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).