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My new musical instrument: Python

It's still very young, but here is the library I've been working on for generating music in (nothing but) Python . "test.py" is an example of what you can do. The real purpose isn't to code your music out this way, it's intended as a backend for generating / manipulating music. My end goal is a tab-based editor that plays back with this, but I'm going to keep working on this backend and hope some brave snake wrestler comes along and has the itch to write a proper interface (and if that doesn't happen, I'll start on the interface when I feel satisfied with the backend). The Timeline and Hit classes are just ideas right now. I'm not sure they'll stay in the form they are (I'm thinking a guitar-oriented timeline, holding fret/string/amplitude per hit, is more along the lines of what I need). I'm also on the hunt for efficient numpy/scipy implemented effects and sound sources. I've been playing around some with generating Karplus-S...

Procedural music with PyAudio and NumPy

Combining two of my favorite pastimes, programming and music... This is the hacky "reduced to it's basic components" version of a library I've been working on for generating music and dealing with music theory. Tweaking the harmonics by changing the shape of the harmonic components and ratios can produce some interesting sounds. This one only uses sine waveforms, but a square / saw generator is trivial with numpy. It takes a second to generate, so don't turn your volume up too loud in anticipation (it may be loud). import math import numpy import pyaudio import itertools from scipy import interpolate from operator import itemgetter class Note: NOTES = ['c','c#','d','d#','e','f','f#','g','g#','a','a#','b'] def __init__(self, note, octave=4): self.octave = octave if isinstance(note, int): self.index = note self.note = Note.NOTES[note] elif isin...