[4nof]

As a musician and a programmer, I'm looking for ways to produce music without a staff on paper or in a text message, and produce music programatically with easy I/O to a synthesizer or to other functions in code. ABC notation comes close to what I want - it can be done in a text message, but I/O requires parsing and storing into objects to do anything with it. basic HexnoteG9 can be read in as little as 1 case statement viewing the last place.

I used LMMS and have taken a look at AbletonLive - both require heavy use of the mouse to get anything setup for music generation. My plan is to start at the bottom of the stack - sending notes through hex , and build on that so an artist could go in and edit the hex notes if they really wanted to, that it would be more readable than midi, and then the changes would show up in the layer above the hexnotes with buttons, sliders, a staff, and general UI.

[shoo]

maybe of interest -- https://vimeo.com/22798433