[clam-devel] Important Question regarding CLAM

Murray Meehan murray.meehan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 20:24:24 PDT 2011


glad to hear you like it -- you may also want to take a look at
http://marsyas.info/, an oss music analysis tool.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Lee Savide <laughingman182 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, I'll still keep my hopes up; if I've learned anything about open
> source technology, its that while how you skin the cat is debatable,
> learning from the ways of other's methods is a blessing and a necessity
> towards doing it in the best way possible. Perhaps CLAM can still make use
> of the algorithms and functions used in music21, even if not directly. I'm
> not saying to cut paste code, since that's the death of intellect in
> practice; I'm asking if music21 is something to consider observing for ways
> to improve CLAM. I'm not very good at C++ code (yet), to be honest, but
> Python I'm very familiar with, and I'm very thankful you took the time to
> answer my questions. I'd like this topic to be open for more debate, though.
> It's very uncommon for music analysis software to exist and be as in-depth
> as this, or music21, and sadly those are the only 2 open source libraries
> for music analysis I personally know of. It's very frustrating, but seeing
> this is like a breath of fresh air.
> On Oct 12, 2011 6:32 PM, "David GARCÍA GARZÓN" <david.garcia at upf.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> No plan on integrating music21. Sorry. Anyway...
>>
>> You should take a look to the extractors in CLAM Annotator.
>> They include among others, extractors which use the same
>> algorithms that Chordata uses. Those extractors generate
>> xml files that python can turn easily in any format you
>> need provided that the information you need for the format
>> is there.
>>
>> CLAM provide pitch (for monophonic excerpts) rhythm,
>> harmony/chords for polyphonic excerpts...
>> The information is quite noisy and far from having notation
>> but it can be a pretty good starting point.
>>
>> David.
>>
>> __________________________________________________
>>
>> From Lee Savide <laughingman182 at gmail.com>
>> Sent Tue 10/11/2011 9:17 PM
>> To clam-devel at lists.clam-project.org
>> Subject [clam-devel] Important Question regarding CLAM
>>
>>
>> Hi. I'm a college student who's majoring in music technology, and when I
>> found this project, I was VERY impressed. I've been looking for an open
>> source framework like this for YEARS, and nothing good ever came up. Then I
>> found this. Now, I'm going to have to ask something extremely crucial: Is
>> there any planning to involve integration into the music21 (
>> http://code.google.com/p/music21/) project? Specifically, I'd be very
>> interested with the concept of a tool that can analyze and deconstruct the
>> music notation from WAV, MP3, and OGG files. Specifically and open
>> source tool for that would be an amazing feat within itself. PLEASE do get
>> back to me; I've been looking for a project like this for a very long time
>> (over 6 years). Thank you very much for your time, and efforts. :)
>>
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