zen3d / nebulator

Scriptable midi/OSC sequencer.

What This Is

Most music software uses piano roll midi editors. This is an alternative - writing scripts to generate sounds.

I played around with various scripting concepts, but ended up realizing that C# makes a reasonable scripting language, given that we have the compiler available to us at run time.

It supports midi and OSC.

While the primary intent is to generate music-by-code, runtime interaction is also supported. It's called Nebulator after a MarkS C++ noisemaker called Nebula which allowed manipulation of parameters using custom UI inputs.

The script syntax is roughly based on that used by Processing, combined with C# language features.

For lots more info see the Wiki

Bonus Stuff

This project contains a bunch of components that are either recycled or created for this. Most could be stripped out for subsequent reuse.

• Midi classes may be useful elsewhere in conjunction with NAudio.
• Partial import of Yahama style (.sty) files.
• General purpose embedded C# in memory compiler.
• Example of the use of pnut unit tester.
• See NBagOfTricks for more goodies.

Third Party

This application uses these FOSS components:

• NAudio DLL including modified controls and midi file utilities: NAudio (Microsoft Public License).
• Logging: NLog (BSD 3-Clause).
• Json processor: Newtonsoft (MIT) Note - uses 9.0.1 - don't update!
• Web server: embedio (MIT).
• Main icon: Charlotte Schmidt (Copyright © 2009 of Charlotte Schmidt).
• Button icons: Glyphicons Free (CC BY 3.0).