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Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The library has MIT license, I would be more than happy to see people use it in different synths. I'm planning to add support for math formulas in beat numbers, something like: "15+/3+/4" = 15.58333

> "15+/3+/4" Can you explain how to read that? 15 plus divided by 3 plus divided by 4?

It's a shorthand for 15 + (1/3) + (1/4), but I'm still not settled on the syntax.

Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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To me it seems like files could get hard to understand if events that happen simultaneously aren't horizontally lined up like this:

  2.0 voice1 | voice2 | ...
Like a text version of old school tracker interfaces:

https://youtu.be/eclMFa0mD1c

  POS | TRACK #1 | TRACK #2 | ...

Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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It makes no sense to design for llm's. Do what makes sense for the reader and forget that llm's exist at all.

What prompted this and why does it not?

It's not the 19th Century. You don't need to punch holes in cards to help the machine "think" any more.

Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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This made me remember old set of tools called mtx2midi and midi2mtx, I used them to edit some midi files while making sure I'm not introducing any unwanted changes. While roundtrip output was not binary identical, it still sounded the same. Looks like MTXT tool here does not quite work for this use case, the result of the roundtrip of a midi I tried has a segment folded over, making two separate segments play at the…

It reminded me of ABC and the tools abc2midi and midi2abc.

Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What prompted this and why does it not?

It's not the 19th Century. You don't need to punch holes in cards to help the machine "think" any more.

> You don't need to punch holes in cards to help the machine "think" any more.

That's literally what "prompt engineering" is, though.

Re: Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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How does this compare to standard ABC? More capable, presumably, but a comparison would be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation https://abcnotation.com/

ABC notation is more oriented towards traditional sheet music, with regular note lengths, standard Western tuning and a simple, readable syntax. It isn't meant for playing back music that sounds good to the ear. It's hard to catch the nuances of a real human performance with it, but it works well as a lead sheet for musicians. Its expressive marking are relatively limited and interpreted subjectively.

MTXT focuses on editable recordings of live performances, preserving all of those tiny irregularities that make the music human. It can represent arbitrary timings, subtle expressive variations and even arbitrary tuning systems. MTXT can also capture transitions like crescendos and accelerandos exactly as they happened.

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