Musik

Musical theory and audio signals concepts expressed in Rust. It is mostly expired by HSoM book.

Install dependencies

sudo apt install libasound2-dev   # also `qjackctl` and `qsynth` for handling audio streams

Examples

You could listen to your code examples (or included example) by compiling with the play-midi feature (included by default).

1. Run one of the external MIDI servers, e.g.:

   • timidity -iA -Os

   • fluidsynth --audio-driver=alsa -o audio.alsa.device=pulse /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

2. Run your code, e.g. cargo run --example hsom-exercises.

Useful Links

• On notes and everything else:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory
  • https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_composition
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_musicology
  • https://wiki.ccarh.org/wiki/Guido_Music_Notation

• On MIDI:

  • http://tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html
  • https://sndrtj.eu/2019/10/19/Using-a-USB-midi-keyboard-on-Ubuntu/
  • https://askubuntu.com/q/572120
  • https://linuxaudio.github.io/libremusicproduction/html/workflow.html
  • https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/FMP/C1/C1S2_MIDI.html (also see the FMP book)

• On signals:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odeWLp96fdo
  • https://crates.io/crates/hound
  • https://crates.io/crates/rodio
  • https://crates.io/crates/fundsp (see the combinator module for signal processing arrows-style)

Similar crates

• https://crates.io/crates/rust-music-theory
• https://crates.io/crates/rust-music
• https://crates.io/crates/tune-cli
• https://crates.io/crates/tonal
• search crates.io: https://crates.io/search?q=WORD where WORD: {music, sound, melody, chord, harmony, note, pitch, octave}.