[Frooxius]

Hi there!
MusicString is another of my many projects, it's an simple programming language designed for Music/Melody synthesis using a very compact ASCII strings (plus there's a compression version coming up, utilizing UTF-8), in another words - you can write music with just a few symbols!

This makes it deal for pasting on Twitter, sharing in social networks, IRC, instant messaging or even putting to your signature or in the post. The language is quite straightforward, but allows simple loops (repeating parts of the tunes), playing several notes at once (basically by forking) or even subroutines with arguments and conditional execution. It supports several instruments and also soundfonts for your own sounds/instruments! (and you can use several soundfonts in one song at once!)

Today, I finished the first working version of MusicString compiler and generated the first audio with MusicString ever. This is the MusicString that was used for the first one:

Code:

{test;a[$0.:3]a}abc{test:z}abc{test:8z}

You can listen to generated audio here:
http://data.solirax.org/musicstring/First.wav

Here's another tune, which sounds more like a music and less like a testing piece:

Code:

->5dd.4abcfeg5ddd(bcd,egd)3dddefghaaabb(bbbc,ccca)5dda

You can listen to generated audio here:
http://data.solirax.org/musicstring/More.wav

For now, this is all, but stay tuned, because I'm gonna release specification and compiler binary soon, so you can begin making your very own tunes! ^^ If you're capable enough even now to understand the simple syntax of the MusicString language from the examples, feel free to type any of them here into the topic and I'll generate them now for you :3

I hope you'll like this project, 1llusion showed interest in integration with this forums using a bbcode tag [musicstring]

So... stay tuned for more tunes! >:3

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UPDATE! Version 0.2.1a
Please update to the new version, DOWNLOAD HERE
[+] Linux binary is now available! The code compiles and works correctly both under Linux and Windows now, porting to Mac OS X is in progress
[*] Fixed a bug that caused incorrect loops to be terminated by the [loopname] statement
[*] Fixed a bug that caused parsing thread to hang by going into an unintended infinite loop under some circumstances



UPDATE! Version 0.2a
Please update to the new version, *snip*
[*] Rewrote the parsing thread scheduling code and (hopefully) resolved all timing issues that way, also made code more clean
[+] New noise generation, so it now has much better, frequency based noise and plucks!
[+] Now supports statement [loopname] to terminate any loop with that name (you can try it with tune.mstr)
[+] New and updated examples

[1234hotmaster]

awesome music coding language :O

[Frooxius]

Thanks. I have another tune, which I created partially by randomly mushing keys on the keyboard, but it doesn't sound THAT bad, surprisingly x3

Code:

3>{0;pokcfghmrldslfdfsadewoiadajlekjadfadhfweiudadlkjhaeauhdfalkjdhfalsuehaldkjnxlmhldsakjhflkdsajfajhkhkjhkjhkjhkjhkjhkjhkjhkjhkkkkkhkhjkjhkjhkjhkhjkjhkjhuyiuyilkjhutkjoiytuytriyutyutabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzzzzzz...p.p.p.p.p.dlprmldflkj}(/{0:},^{0:},5|[rtt.:30],6=~[tTop:15],4=-[d...dd.....d.d.d....ddd.d...:30])

Listen to it here

Keep tuned, freely available MusicString compiler is coming soon ;-)

[1llusion]

Can't wait until I can add the bbcode for it!
Its awesome =)

[Frooxius]

It's here! Download the compiler!

I just released the first public version of the MusicString to WAV (16b PCM) compiler! It takes plaintext file with MusicString code as an input and outputs a WAV file (16b PCM, 48 kHz), the length is capped to 30 minutes, so in case the MusicString loops forever, result will be 30 minutes long.

It's packaged with a few examples, so try them out and then begin to make your own tunes! ^^ Don't hesitate to share them here with us!

It's also first version, not all features are implemented yet and some are gonna change a bit, plus there are probably bugs, so sorry in advance if it crashes here and then or doesn't work as it should.

[Jacob]

OH MY LORD! OOOOO;

[Frooxius]

Jacob/Java - FTW: Eeer what? Oo I'm not sure if it's exclamation in terror, disgust or something else?

[Jacob]

Jacob/Java - FTW: Eeer what? Oo I'm not sure if it's exclamation in terror, disgust or something else?

i love this idea! I WILL become the next mozart, through WIP ^__^

[Frooxius]

Jacob/Java - FTW: Oh thanks ^^ Did you create some tunes already? Care to share? :3 Also did you try compiling some of the music that's packed with the compiler? Also, WIP stands for Work In progress, I got a feeling you mistake it for the name of project or something like that.

[Jacob]

Jacob/Java - FTW: Oh thanks ^^ Did you create some tunes already? Care to share? :3 Also did you try compiling some of the music that's packed with the compiler? Also, WIP stands for Work In progress, I got a feeling you mistake it for the name of project or something like that.

i didnt get to it, because i was on a different computer that didnt had speakers, and i couldnt find my headphones, but now its time to rock out with my C**k out

and WIP - i kinda guessed at what it meant, and i was close (working in progress) is what i got.


But could you elaborate further, what the parentheses are for, and the reason whole words are thrown about instead of them? Or is that just to musical purposes?

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i've got a question.

how do you change the length of each tone? Im trying to recreate a simple version of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven, but the tones are just too darn long and i dont quite understand how you shortened them.

Although i do understand the loops and variables ^_^


this is setting are variable right?

Code:

{variable;kakl897uo84u3irfjkdvmasdfjh34tgb}

This is assigning a variable that uses another variable with operators and such to do other stuff

Code:

{var2; ={variable:}.>{variable:}.<{variable:}.}

This is looping

Code:

%n (integer) Example: %n 6

And this is similar to assigning a variable to a parameter within a function

Code:

~{var2:} _{var2:} -{var2:} +{var2:}

I apologize for probably getting the comparisons wrong, this is really confusing to a personal with average intelligence ^_^