Notations (text format) based Melody Editor to build midi clips

[anytizer]

I am building a parser for converting printer-friendly text format notations into midi clips.
It can understand Western notes, SARGAM notes and some virtual keyboard based data.

In this discussion, I want to achieve:

• More ideas for this parser, and the future of this sub-project.
• Reviewing and improving the current source code, and parser logics.
• Develop accurate documentation on formatting the notations per parser.
• Quicken the process of writing and testing your new melody back to written form.

Inspirations:
Since many melodies come as hand-written or printed notations during the teaching learning process; I attempted feeding them directly, and convert to corresponding melody instantly; from a digital copy of these notations.

[anytizer]

Associated Files

• 2025-06-19 - MelodyEditor.zip

[anytizer]

Documentation

TLDR: This section describes how the parser understands melody in text format.

You need to format your notations into human readable form with the following considerations.
Then, correctly choose your input type before replacing the melody in midi clip.

Features	Western notes Parser	SARGAM notes Parser	Virtual Keyboard Parser
Natural notes allowed	C D E F G A B C# D# F# G# A#	S R G m P D N r g M d n	Alpha-Numerals (QWERTY) keyboard
Higher octaves marker	Append octave number eg. C5 D6	Append an asterisk * eg. S*, R**	??
Lower octaves marker	Append octave number eg. C3 D2	Append a dot . eg. S., R..	??
Chord Making	Brace notes within [ and ]	Brace notes within [ and ]	Brace notes within [ and ]
Longer chord lengths	Add a dash - BEFORE ].	Add a dash - before ].	Add a dash - before ].
Time shared / split notes	Comma eg. C#,D#	Comma eg. r,g	??
Silence / Pause marker	Use x wherever needed.	Use x wherever needed.	SPACE character
Longer silence marker	Introduce another x.	Introduce another x.	Introduce PIPE
Continuation mark	Add a dash -	Add a dash -	??
Comments per line	Start a line with hash #.	Start a line with hash #.	??
Sharps / Flats	Only sharps understood. flats	Lower case for komal notes.	??
Example 1 - chords	[ C E G - - - ] A A,B A G	[ S R G - - - ] D D,N D P	[qwe]tyu-iop
Example 2 - long note	G3 A3 E4 D4 - G4,A4 B4 D5 C5 - - -	P. D. G R - P,D N R* S* - - -	??
Example 3 - silence / pause	C x D x E x G -	S x R x G x P -	??
Help Link	here	here	here

Other notes

• Chords must have been terminated with corresponding ].
• Error count: Number of notes that were NOT converted for use in LMMS is returned.
  • Remedy: Look for accidentally joined notations
  • or illegal notes or characters like: E#.