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  • James Harris
    #1

    Python music interfaces

    Hi,

    I am wanting to develop some software that

    a) Reads existing files of music of a few well known types
    b) Displays the music in traditional notation - i.e. on a stave
    c) Displays the same music in my own notation that I am playing with
    d) Allows both to be printed

    I guess I can use Python with Tk for the display part but there seems to
    be a plethora/cornucopia of Python music interfaces. (For example,
    <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic>. ) I'd appreciate if you
    could recommend which would be good for me to look at in order to do the
    above.

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    TIA,
    James


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    • Lonnie Princehouse
      #2
      Re: Python music interfaces

      Are you talking about audio files (wav, mp3) or MIDI? Converting
      audio files into discrete notes ("music recognition") is seriously
      non-trivial, although there are some commercial products you might be
      able to use for this. On the other hand, you could draw a
      spectrographs without too much trouble. As

      For reading the audio file, you could start with the built-in wave
      module to read uncompressed WAV files, and worry about other formats
      later on. Any external audio converter will be able to save as WAV
      (sox on Linux is one such program)

      Tkinter's Canvas will work nicely for display, particularly because
      it's absurdly easy to convert Canvas contents into PostScript for
      printing.

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        • groupstudy2001@yahoo.co.uk
          #3
          Re: Python music interfaces


          Lonnie Princehouse wrote:[color=blue]
          > Are you talking about audio files (wav, mp3) or MIDI?[/color]


          Strictly discrete notes or chords. I honestly don't know how the files
          are made up but I guess MIDI would be more the thing. Can you recommend
          a package for reading them (as arrays, perhaps)? The simpler the
          better!



          [color=blue]
          > Tkinter's Canvas will work nicely for display, particularly because
          > it's absurdly easy to convert Canvas contents into PostScript for
          > printing.[/color]

          I don't have access to a postscript printer but I guess I can use the
          display and do a printscreen etc so I'll look in to this some more.
          Tkinter has to be the way to go, I think....

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