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Music Informatics
How computing reads, writes and transforms music: from MIDI to audio signal analysis.
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EssayRhythm games: music as the conductor of training
Stage Tour announces RedOctane's return. The announcement is the hook; the underlying idea —music as the conductor of a training system— predates five buttons.
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EssayRACK-02: under the hood of the techno generator
A technical audit of RACK-02: how a seed and probability rules generate reproducible techno loops with a modular synthesis engine in the browser.
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GuidePython for music: librosa, music21, and pretty_midi
One language, three separate toolboxes: librosa looks at the audio, music21 at the score, and pretty_midi at MIDI. What each library does and when to use it.
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GuideAsturian bagpipe organology as data
How the Asturian bagpipe can be described in measurable terms — parts, key, and frequency range — and what you need to understand before digitising it.
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EssayWhat Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is
The field behind automatic transcription, chord recognition, and Shazam. What MIR is and how MIDI, MusicXML, and AMT fit into it.
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GuideWhat MusicXML is: the score as data
Moving a score between programs without it falling apart seems trivial, and it is not. What MusicXML is and how it differs from MIDI.
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EssayWhat automatic music transcription is
Turning a recording into a score sounds trivial until you try it. What automatic music transcription (AMT) is and why it remains an open problem.
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GuideopenDAW: an open-source DAW that lives in the browser
What openDAW is, how it runs in the browser via the Web Audio API and TypeScript, and how its data sovereignty model connects with GDPR and free software.
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GuideWhat MIDI is: instructions, not audio
What MIDI is and, more importantly, what it is not. How a MIDI message describes a note without audio, and why that makes it so flexible.
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