I might need to manipulate and synthesize midi in R, so I spent the afternoon trying to make various packages work. They are all wrappers for python stuff. It wasn't a cake walk, but I finally made an mp3 of the top gun theme song = declaring victory
Really nice to hear that you used the pyramidi package I've written some time ago!
I hope it wasn't too frustrating. You have to feel adventurous to use it.
The package is highly experimental and doesn't work for all sorts of midi files. And it was a bit cumbersome to harmonize the development with the related python package...
@urswilke Thanks for writing the package!, it helped immensely.
I'm not sure I've used R6 so much before, but other than that I was able to follow along. I'm planning to go back through your docs today as I start exploring mangling with midi. Nice work!!!
@urswilke No problem, and thanks again for all your work, it's helped me wrap my head around wrangling midi in R...I still have a fair distance to go in terms of getting it all straight, but it's been a lot of fun so far!
I was able to add some hi hats to the basic drum beat, and change tempo, but something seems wrong about tempo. Right now my mp3 has 4 bars of drum beat and what seems like 4 bars of silence, and I'm all MIDIed out for the day
The ggplot code for a keyboard is cool, though, I plotted a C7!
Looking forward to the day when I systematically randomize the super Mario brothers theme song, in steps of just a little fun to plowing down the green pipe of entropy, into the underworld of fun.
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