Music Composer

Music Composer can help automate writing pop songs in three modes. It outputs the lyrics text file, the asc2mid text file, a meta music file and a MIDI music file.

1. Manual entry of form, lyrics, melody, harmony, instruments, parts that the melody plays in and parts that the harmony plays in.

2. Random generation of the creative choices.

3. Mind reading mode.

Getting Started

Please read the following instructions on how to install the project on your computer for writing music.

Prerequisites

• Use a search engine to find the Homebrew (or other) Terminal install command for your platform and install it, and search for the Terminal command to install swipl using Homebrew and install it or download and install SWI-Prolog for your machine at SWI-Prolog.

• Requires asc2mid (http://www.archduke.org/midi/, compile with a C compiler before running.

gcc asc2mid.c -o asc2mid

• Call application "asc2mid").

• Optional: Search for and download backdated version 6.0.5 of GarageBand and AlterEgo singing voice synthesis plug-in for old GarageBand for Mac or on Windows (https://www.plogue.com/downloads.html).

Mac, Linux and Windows (with Linux commands installed): Prepare to run swipl

• In Terminal settings (Mac), make Bash the default shell:

/bin/bash

• In Terminal, edit the text file ~/.bashrc using the text editor Nano:

nano ~/.bashrc

• Add the following to the file ~/.bashrc:

export PATH="$PATH:/opt/homebrew/bin/"

• Check if usr/local/bin exists

ls -ld /usr/local/bin

• Create the directory if missing

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

• Link to swipl in Terminal

sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/swipl /usr/local/bin/swipl

1. Install manually

Download this repository, the List Prolog Interpreter Repository and the Mind Reader Repository.

2. Or Install from List Prolog Package Manager (LPPM)

• Download the LPPM Repository:

mkdir GitHub
cd GitHub/
git clone https://github.com/luciangreen/List-Prolog-Package-Manager.git
cd List-Prolog-Package-Manager
swipl
['lppm'].
lppm_install("luciangreen","Music-Composer").
../
halt.

Running

• In Shell: cd Music-Composer swipl

• Enter the following to enter creative choices manually: ['mindreadtestmusiccomposer-unusual-4-userinput'].

• Enter the following to enter creative choices with rhythm manually: ['mindreadtestmusiccomposer-unusual-4-userinput-rhythm'].

• Note: In Rhythm entry mode, enter a maximum of n notes per lyric line, up to n melody and harmony notes, and n rhythm notes. The melody is truncated to the length of the vocal lyric line and the maximum vocal lyric line in vocal-less lines.

• Enter the following to generate 3-note progressions randomly: ['mindreadtestmusiccomposer-unusual-3'].

• Enter the following to generate 4-note progressions randomly: ['mindreadtestmusiccomposer-unusual-4'].

• Before running texttobr-based mind reader, think of two radio buttons put on recordings, put through with prayer, nut and bolt, quantum box prayer 1, 1, 0.5 cm and 1, 1, 0.5 cm.

• Follow instructions in https://github.com/luciangreen/Text-to-Breasonings/blob/master/Instructions_for_Using_texttobr(2).pl.txt when using texttobr, texttobr2 or mind reader to avoid medical problems.

• Please follow instructions in init.txt to initialise any new mind-reading algorithms.

• Enter the following to detailedly mind-read songs with 4-note progressions: ['mindreadtestmusiccomposer-unusual-4-mr-tree.pl'].

• Note: Please leave 1 hour between mind-reading songs for the best results.

• Running the algorithm To generate the song: sectest0(Form1,Lyrics,Melody,Harmony,MelodyParts,HarmonyParts,Vocalstubinstrument,Song1).

To output the possible chord progressions from one note to another: versechorussoloprogression1451('C','D',Progression),writeln1(Progression). versechorussoloprogression1564('C','D',Progression),writeln1(Progression). versechorussoloprogression1645('C','D',Progression),writeln1(Progression). classicalcomposition('C','D',Progression),writeln1(Progression). popclassicalcomposition('C','D',Progression),writeln1(Progression).

Data files to stems

• Separate song***.txt files into stem files for each instrument (saved in the stems folder) by placing the data files in the data_files folder, and entering ['data_to_stems.pl']. and data_to_stems..

Stems/data files to mid files

If:

• you have converted the data files to stem files and need .mid files, or
• the file song***.txt is produced but the .mid file is not:

• Place the data files or stems in the stems folder, enter ['data_to_stems.pl']. and stems_to_mid. and the .mid files will be saved in the mid folder.

Convert meta to mid files

• Place *_meta.txt files in the meta folder, enter ['meta2mid.pl']. and meta2mid. and the *lyrics.txt, *.mid and *.txt files will be saved in the Music-Composer folder.
• Run meta2mid_r. instead of meta2mid. to ask for a song-wide rhythm.

Redefine a meta file's rhythm

• To redefine a meta file's rhythm, select it at the end of the file...:

• 

• Wilb","ney",["writes","on"],["Ven","ess"]]]]],[genre,["anthem"]],[rhythm,[["0","NT","3/4",1,60],["3/4","NT","1/4",2,80],["1","NT","3/4",3,60],["1+3/4","NT","1/4",4,80],["2","NT","3/4",5,60],["2+3/4","NT","1/4",6,80],["3","NT","3/4",7,60],["3+3/4","NT","1/4",8,80]]]]

• And delete it:

• 

• [genre,["anthem"]]]

• Then run meta2mid_r as described above.

Note on Mind Reader

Mind Reader is currently not configured to display screens and accurately mind read decisions. It detects vague, not exact thoughts.

• If necessary, repeat the "arem" mantra all the time while the mind reading computation is running to ensure the best results.

Versioning

We will use SemVer for versioning.

Authors

Lucian Green - Initial programmer - Lucian Academy

License

I licensed this project under the BSD3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details