[PD] Musical notation object on Pd

[João Pais]

Oi Caio,

someone posted a new object in development in the pd-dev list last month.  
This can be quite good, and if I remember correctly, it allows musicxml,  
and works on all platforms -  
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2010-10/016136.html.

I guess anyone with the knowledge can adapt pwgl displays to pd, but it  
might also pay up to help the project I mentioned.

João Pais


> Hello guys.
> I've been dreaming about an object that would display musical notation  
> and
> output data (like midi numbers for instance).
> I found a discutions about something like that here in our list (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-list@iem.at/msg19969.html) but this was a
> discussion about creating live musical notation for performance, and  
> what I
> have in mind is something more like a Computer Assisted  
> Composition/Research
> tool. If i'm not mistaken Open Music and PWGL (http://www2.siba.fi/PWGL/)
> already have something like this.
> Look at the images I made of how this object would look like:
> - The input would be a message with the midi number of the pitch, and the
> object would display a Treble or Bass cleff with the note and output the
> number of the pitch through the outlet (cleff_pd_01.png).
> - It would be possible to alterate the pitch by holding and dragging the
> mouse (cleff_pd_02.png)
> - Chords could be made... (cleff_pd_03.png)
> - or melodies... (cleff_pd_04.png)
> - or even sequences of chords. (cleff_pd_05.png)
>
> The output could easily be transformed into notation for lilypond, for
> instance (like Collin Oldham did in that thread I mentioned).
>
> Do you think it's possible to do something like that? At the moment I  
> don't
> have the money to pay a programmer to do that (I would happily do it if I
> could). Maybe I can learn how to do this, but I don't know where to  
> start.
> I already see some complications to build this object:
> - it would have to stretch itself so the chords and melodies would fit;
> - It would have to decide what cleff to use (or maybe not, the user could
> send a message like [treble<);
> - There should have a way to choose between flat and sharp;
> - A nice thing would be to have more than one staff at once, like a piano
> staff for instance, and so on...
>
> For now I'm just wondering if something like this could be done. I've  
> been
> doing some calculations of composition techniques using Pd and I miss
> musical notation so much.
>
> Bye!
> Caio Barros
>
> Bonus: I made an abstraction to transform midi note to pitch name and  
> also
> frequency as a part of a bunch of composition tools I use. (and after I  
> read
> those threads about creating the notation object in GEM I discovered that
> some people already did it, but here it go anyway). see midi_note.pd


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