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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?
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#25It makes no sense to design for llm's. Do what makes sense for the reader and forget that llm's exist at all.
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#26 2.0 voice1 | voice2 | ...
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#28This 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…
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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.
That's literally what "prompt engineering" is, though.
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#30How 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/
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.