🌐: Em Português 🇧🇷

HRMIDI

Human Readable MIDI, to easily write music to be converted to .mid.

If markdown can write formated text, why can't HRMIDI write music ?

The language:

In the top of each music, must be declared some global details:

BPM 100 // The speed of the music
LANG en // The human language used to call the instruments and clefs (not all supported at the moment)

The instruments can be declared like that:

C_PIANO bass				// Sets the clef of this section
N_PIANO do re mi fa _ sol	// Declares the notes
T_PIANO 1  2  1  2  4 0.5	// Declares the time of each note

C_VIOLIN treble
N_VIOLIN 1 2 3 4 0 5	// Many ways to write notes can be used
T_VIOLIN 1 2 1 2 4 0,5	// For accesibility reasons, both . and , can be used on decimals
M_VIOLIN 2				// Modifier, here means twice faster as others

The language have some rules:

• Comments can be written using // at the ending of the line;
• The terms/keys must be split with space , tabs and/or semicolons ;. The number used between two different keys does not matter, this is for formating reasons;
• Lines must be split using \n (new line);
• Empty lines will be ignored, you can use them for formating.
• Keys/terms can be written in lowercase or uppercase, and even mix both.

For full technical description check the manual pages.

The program:

For now there will be only the hrmidi command to compile or convert to another language/type.

There is no need to install or compile, you can simply run the script src/bin/hrmidi. In order to install the man pages, run the script convert-man-pages.sh before.

Check the manual for more details.

Todo:

Version 3:

• Simultaneous notes with (note note ...)
• Allow to write many N_ and T_ at same tracks (make all N_ follow the T_ below ?)
• Maybe alternative syntaxes with [Note,Beats]