VisualMIDI

Overview

I am working on computer generated music and wanted to have a visualizer for midi files. This web app allows to easily import a midi and vizualize the following:

• Scatterplot of (Time, Frequency) of midi note_on events
• BarChart of ticks between note_on events
• BarChart of intervals between note_on events

Can also toggle to include Drums track or not

Notes: it's a WIP. Chords have been filtered out

Installation

Install python dependencies (pip for mido, git clone and pip -e for MidiStructurer) then

git clone https://github.com/Wally869/VisualMidi
cd VisualMidi
npm install

// start electron app
npm start

// Can also start in webonly mode
npm run startwebonly 

Dependencies

Python:

• mido
• MusiStrata (my repo: Wally869/MusiStrata)

Javascript:

• Express
• Chart.js
• Electron

Plot Colors

There is no set colors for the plots. Colors are chosen at random when needed by the ColorPool in jsfiles/frontside.js

If you want to specify your own color set, override the colors attribute of the ColorPool class

class ColorPool {
  constructor() {
    this.colors = [];
  }
  getColor(id) {
    while (id > this.colors.length - 1) {
      this.colors.push(randomColorString());
    }
    return this.colors[id];
  }
}

To Do

• Color Palette instead of random pick
• Change plotting library, tooltip not working for heatmap, and custom recipe for heatmap has issues
• Maybe use brython instead of relying on user python install