bedewu / midi-staff-notation-utility

C program that converts MIDI file to text in musical staff notation.

MIDI-staff-notation-utility

Parses a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) file and converts it into text representation similiar to staff notation.

Notation

Bb2: represents notes. e.g. B-flat on the second octave (middle C is C4)

.: represents rest

-: represents held note

|: represents bar line

(): represents block chords (notes played simultaneously)

: each time division (quarter note for 4/4 time) is separated by a space

Usage

./configure
make
mid2stf your_input.mid your_output.stf

Example output

|0                   |1 (C major) t=4/4 !=100 |2                             |3                    |
|                    |. . . .                 |.        .      .      .      |.  .     .   .       |
|Acoustic Grand Piano|                        |                              |                     |
|                    |. . . .                 |.        .      .      .      |.  .     .   .       |
|Acoustic Grand Piano|                        |                              |                     |
|                    |. . . .                 |(G4AC5D) (----) (----) (----) |.  .     .   .       |
|Acoustic Grand Piano|                        |mp                            |                     |
|                    |. . . .                 |G3       A4G    FD     A3G    |G# B2D3  FBb G#G     |
|Acoustic Grand Piano|                        |mf                            |                     |
|                    |. . . .                 |Eb4      Eb-Eb  Eb     Eb-Eb  |Eb Eb-Eb Eb  Eb-Eb   |
|Drums               |                        |mp                            |                     |

References

http://www.archduke.org/midi/index.html