That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! On Wednesday 23 April 2008 9:43:20 am Gerry wrote: > Jeremy, > You can still write music in a few lines of code (if you consider scripting > "code"),And converting midi to sound is as easy as > timidity -Ow -o file.wav file.mid > > In 12 minutes of messing around (never having used abc before): > > 1. (this is a Fedora machine) yum install abcMIDI tclabc > 2. produced this file in my text editor after consulting these resources > http://abc.sourceforge.net/resources.html > http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/ABCprimer.html > http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm > > X:1 > M:4/4 > K:G > L:1/8 > [Ge] [Af] [Bg] [cA] [df] [eG] [df] [Bg] | > > 3. ran abc2midi test.abc > 4. created a wav file with timidity -Ow test1.mid > created an ogg file (attached) with timidity -Ov test1.mid > (install lame to make mp3 from wav)