Muselang is a music programming language. It's designed to be simple, concise and powerful enough to make music with it :)
How does it look? Here's simple melody written in Muselang:
C5 4 100
D5 4 100
E5 4 100
F5 4 100
G5 4 100
A5 quarter 100
B5 q 100
As you may already guessed - this program plays an octave. C5 4 100 means "play quarter note C of octave 5 with velocity 100". Also you can omit octave number for 5th octave. So C5 and C is a same note in Muselang.
Muselang also support phrases:
phrase hello {
C eighth 100
D eighth 100
E e 100
D e 50
}
phrase world {
F quarter 50
G quarter 50
}
phrase main {
hello
world
A 4 100
B 4 100
}
main
You can play melodies written in Muselang using Muselang interpreter or you can export a melody as a MIDI file.
Why make music with Muselang when there exist lots of WYSIWYG programs for music creation? I can give you an answer :)
- Muselang can be used for procedure generation of music. You may say that MIDI can also be easily used for procedure generation of music. But! Muselang is human-readable, has concept of phrases etc
- Muselang is VCS-friendly. You can collaborate with other music developers, creating the most awesome music people ever made! This is also useful for open-source games!
- Muselang can be used as a backend for WYSIWYG programs
- Writing text can be faster than moving around notes in GUI progams (that is true if you don't have a MIDI keyboard, like me :) )
- Muselang is free and open-source!
Current (as for 31.10.2016) version of Muselang is 0.1.0 and it's still in early development. Up until 1.0.0, new versions may (or may not) be non backwards-compatible.