The Mi programming language

Mi is a small percussion music programming language made for fun. I'm a big fan of music (percussion more precisely) and programming, why not merging both? I don't want programming to replace music software because these kind of software are much more suitable and offer much more tools for music manipulation; but I find it fun to play music from some code.

The Mi programming language
Installation
Example
Syntax
- Durations of notes
Roadmap

Dependencies

Golang (any version)

Installation and Usage

Installing Mi is a pretty simple 2-step procedure.

First of all, you have to run go get to pull the repository to your GO path.
go get github.com/eagle453/mi

Then you need to install aurora
go get -u github.com/logrusorgru/aurora

Then just simply run your mi file
go run mi.go your-mi-file.mi

got get github.com/eagle453/mi
# Open the mi folder
go run main.go your-mi-file.mi

Mi will generate a midi file from your .mi file.

Example

This is a simple syntax example for drums:

bpm:120

HC,K. HC.   HC,S. HC.
HC,K. HC,K. HC,S. HC.
HC,K. HC.   HC,S. HC.
HC,K. HC,K. HC,S. HC.

bpm:x for x BPM

K = kick, S = snare, HC = hi-hat closed

Syntax

The syntax of Mi is meant to be simple enough to be understood easily.

Durations of notes

In Mi, we must specify the duration of each note by appending one of these symbols:

1/4it's the default duration
~~ 1 bar
~ 1/2 bar
. 1/8 bar
.. 1/16 bar
... 1/32 bar
.... 1/64 bar
..... 1/128 bar

(you can find the duration of the notes in music in the folder images and the file notes-durations.png)

Roadmap

Grammar
Parser
- Optimize code and Mi syntax

Aiden01 / mi