cass-dlcm
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3 years ago Decided that they won't be stored in json, but instead in a simplified version of MIDI.
Details:
- no track or file headers, just a file length indicator stored as a vlq and a ticks per measure stored as a vlq
- only events are note on, note off, end of track, repeat segment
- note events stored using the vlq for number of ticks, a byte to tell event type with channel, and pitch
- velocity is not included as that's set by the program
- pitches stored in guitar patterns are indices, while pitches stored in drum patterns are actual pitches
- repeat segment events specify when the repeat starts, how long the repeat is in the file, and how many times to repeat
- repeat format: TT (TT TT TT) 0C NN (NN NN NN) LL (LL LL LL)
- TT (TT TT TT) is a vlq for the number of ticks from the previous event
- 0C is the event indicator, c being the channel
- NN (NN NN NN) is the number of repeats as a vlq
- LL (LL LL LL) is the length in bytes as a vlq of the repeat segment
- repeat segments can be nested
With my midi-gen-py project, I made it so that the patterns are stored in JSON files and are read in. This allows the user to define their own patterns easily. I wish to replicate that feature in this project.