[clam-devel] Important Question regarding CLAM

Lee Savide laughingman182 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 21:08:04 PDT 2011


And that ups the software for music analysis to 3. :)

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Murray Meehan <murray.meehan at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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