Tag: MIDI

Reading and Transforming a MIDI File

Written by on April 27, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Reading and Transforming a MIDI File

Sometimes it can be interesting to take a MIDI file and transform the score it represents. For example, you can change the tempo, alter the instruments, or even modify the pitches and rhythm. To do something like this, it is helpful to build a convenient framework. In today’s post, I am outlining one approach that […]

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User-defined Literals in C++

Written by on March 27, 2016 in C++, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
User-defined Literals in C++

C++11 introduced user-defined literals, allowing programmers to define special suffixes that can be associated with the built-in literal types: character, integer, float, boolean, and pointer. When designed and used properly, these provide nice syntactic sugar facilitating readability and at the same time, increasing type safety. For example, I can define an operator _kg that can be […]

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How to Use Reaktor with Opusmodus

Written by on January 8, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
How to Use Reaktor with Opusmodus

For those of you who do not know about Opusmodus (OM), it is a very powerful and flexible algorithmic music composition environment built in Lisp. It is available for the Mac. Today I wanted to understand how to make Opusmodus communicate with Reaktor 6 to play some tunes. The built-in documentation gives a couple of […]

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