Hi everyone, I'm searching for "something" which allows me to write
scripts which handle midi files. I'm totally a newbie in audio
manipulation, therefore any suggestion or link related to this field
is welcome. Thanks in advance.
Massi said:Hi everyone, I'm searching for "something" which allows me to write
scripts which handle midi files. I'm totally a newbie in audio
manipulation, therefore any suggestion or link related to this field
is welcome. Thanks in advance.
Google is much faster than this newsgroup. Search for "python midi
library" and the first page gives you a number of good hits.
However, there's a lot to manipulating MIDI. What kinds of things are you
hoping to accomplish? MIDI, for example, is not a particularly good way to
store music for composition.
Massi said:I'm writing a script for didactic musical purpose. As first step I
need something as simple as possible, for example a library of
functions which are able to play a certain note, with a given
instrument and a given length. I thought midi was good for this aim,
am I wrong?
The link to the wiki was dead when I tried it, so i expect it is dead.Ken said:Oh dear, I'm going to point you away from Python ... but I am not
intending to start a flame war...
The Apache Cocoon project (NOT the latest version 2.2 though) might
appeal to you:
http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/demos/release/samples/blocks/midi/
quote:
The MIDI block currently gives you an XMidiGenerator to generate an XML
representation of any MIDI file (called XMidi by its author Peter Loeb).
There is also the XMidiSerializer to render XMidi back as a MIDI file. I
have used XSLT to provide some basic musical manipulations such as
transposition, and inversion. Retrograde is harder, but I shall see what
I can come up with. Hopefully I shall also add some transformers to
generate SVG visualisations of the XMidi, starting with normal western
musical notation.
MIDI Documentation - Documentation available on the Cocoon Wiki.
Massi said:I'm writing a script for didactic musical purpose. As first step I
need something as simple as possible, for example a library of
functions which are able to play a certain note, with a given
instrument and a given length. I thought midi was good for this aim,
am I wrong?
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