solcz / newwave

A .NET music generation engine.

NewWave

NewWave is a .NET music generation engine. It uses procedural generation and customized algorithms to create full instrumental songs.

Usage

Create a test in the unit test project (there are several examples already there) that calls the RenderAndPlay function. It will save a MIDI file to the NewWave.Test\bin\Debug directory and open it up with whatever music player you have set to default.

Projects

• NewWave.Core
  • Contains an interface for the Song class which is implemented by the Generator library
  • Contains the Score class, a "rendered" song that can be saved as a MIDI file
  • Contains common classes like instrument tracks and TimeSignature
• NewWave.Generator
  • Where the magic happens. Generates chord progressions, drum grooves, arrangements, etc. and layers it all together
• NewWave.Library
  • Contains common functionality: chords, scales, scales
• NewWave.Midi
  • Enums for MIDI generation
• NewWave.Test
  • As NewWave currently has no executable, unit tests are used for testing and executing all functionality, including full-stack custom song generation.

Dependencies

• Sanford.Multimedia.Midi
  • Leslie Sanford's MIDI toolkit, used for MIDI file generation
  • https://github.com/tebjan/Sanford.Multimedia.Midi
  • http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6228/C-MIDI-Toolkit
• Microsoft.Net.Compilers
  • NewWave uses C# 6 features, so this is needed so work can be done with versions of Visual Studio that don't natively support it (2013 and older).

Git branching structure

• master — "production"-quality code; currently NewWave is nowhere close to being ready for this.
• develop — main development branch. Extra work on the NewWave.Core project should go here. As stable and feature-complete as possible.
• generator — active branch for the NewWave.Generator project, where most of the work is currently happening. Merges back into develop.