Scripted musical notation available

[Luigi Di Martino]

Hi Kurt

Thanks ever so much for your explanation. Your last paragraph especially has 
made my mind up to go get the Revolution 2.0. I will download the beta 
version and wait for any other releases. My goal is to build an application 
for messing around with midi, where I can map one chord, say, and have it 
come out as an entirely other chord (but to a set of logical rules), or to 
make hybrid scales from other well known scales. I am doing this because of 
some information I found when music is mirrored.

I tried getting on with Visual Basic but it is not as easy as the 
Revolutuion language which I am getting more confident about as I do the 
tutorials.

Lui






>From: Kurt Kaufman <kkaufman at snet.net>
>Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Subject: Scripted musical notation available  Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 
>08:06:27 -0500
>
> >>>I was wondering if you could answer for me if =
>it is possible to map a midi note to another midi note. For example, can =
>a scale be represented as midi numbers, like 64 66 68 69 etc, signifying =
>C D E F, and then to map that to 70 72 73 as the output, for example? So =
>an input note (the key pressed on the piano keyboard for example) gets =
>outputted as a different note. <<<
>
>This would not be difficult, as a transposition mechanism would simply add 
>to or subtract from a given note number.  This would be done "at the top", 
>i.e. immediately upon input, or, if a series of note numbers is saved in a 
>container such as a field or variable, before the series is translated into 
>MIDI data.
>
> >>>I can see that perhaps code can be =
>written into a standalone midi file processor and, when a midi file is =
>imported into it, can change the output of the midi file, and these =
>changes can be saved to another midi file. <<<
>
>
>Here's the difficult part though: it's much more straightforward to create 
>a MIDI file from piano-style keyboard entry or HyperCard-style 
>representations than it is to import an external MIDI file (as I've 
>mentioned before, many MIDI files contain proprietary and/or 
>hardware-specific data which would have to be filtered out).  However, in 
>the long run, MIDI file import would probably be the way to go, as opposed 
>to a HyperCard-style shorthand, since the core of the "Standard MIDI File" 
>(SMF) is a generally accepted way to share MIDI data.
>If the goal is to enable transfer of data only between applications that 
>"understand" the HyperCard-style shorthand, then the job is likely 
>considerably easier.
>
>In any case, since you mentioned that you are new to programming, I have to 
>say that I don't think that working with MIDI is a reasonable first 
>programming project (unless you already understand how MIDI works). Once 
>you get familiar with Revolution, take a look at the MIDI Builder stack 
>(included with Revolution 2), and you might get some ideas as to how to 
>implement the first part of your question, above.
>
>HTH,
>Kurt
>
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