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Ask HN: Converting Music into Numbers/Letters?
The sheet music style is too clunky. I need a way to convert sheet music into numbers or letters. I am trying to create AI to compose music and am looking alternatives for sheet music style notation.
- bishop74 8y agoIn theory you should be able to convert sheet music from a PDF to MIDI with something like this (I did a quick Google search) https://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html https://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html Once you have a MIDI[1] file, you can do a lot of interesting things with your music, such as generating or modifying notes with random values for pitch, velocity etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
- redmaverick 8y agoNever realized how easy it was to manipulate a midi file. You can even convert a midi file to csv. Perfect. Thanks!
- billconan 8y agoyou can use abc notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation http://abc.sourceforge.net/ http://abc.sourceforge.net/ or vextab http://www.vexflow.com/ http://www.vexflow.com/ http://www.vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html http://www.vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html