acoustic-solo-dadaGP

A modification of DadaGP tailored for acoustic solo guitar workflows. It supports alternative string tunings and multi‑track acoustic/clean guitar parts, with a simple CLI and a small public Python API.

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Table of Contents

1. Background & Attribution
2. What’s Changed
3. Features
4. Installation
5. Quick Start
6. CLI Reference
7. Python Reference
8. Contributing
9. License

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Background & Attribution

This project is a fork of dada-bots/dadaGP. Credit to the original authors for the foundational GP↔︎token pipeline.

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What’s Changed

• Enhanced Acoustic Support — optimized defaults and checks for acoustic/clean guitar usage.
• Compatibility with pyguitarpro — works with pyguitarpro>=0.9.
• Alternative Tunings — supports non‑standard tunings (drop D, Celtic, etc.).
• Multi‑track Handling — process up to 3 acoustic/clean tracks; optional merge‑down to one.
• Refined CLI — ergonomic asdadagp tool for encode/decode/process/info.
• Token Utilities — helpers for measure splitting, repeats/alternatives, and tuning extraction.

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Features

• Convert .gp3/.gp4/.gp5/.gpx ⇆ token text files
• Optional track merge: keep only the first acoustic/clean track and strip cleanX: prefixes
• Measure & repeat analysis helpers (playing order, measure objects)
• Basic file validation / info summaries
• Small Python API for scripting

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Installation

From PyPI (recommended)

pip install acoustic-solo-dadaGP

From source

git clone https://github.com/austinliu05/acoustic-solo-dadaGP.git
cd acoustic-solo-dadaGP
pip install -e .

Python >=3.8 is required.

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Quick Start

# Encode a Guitar Pro file to tokens
asdadagp encode song.gp5 tokens.txt --artist "John Doe"

# Decode tokens back to Guitar Pro
asdadagp decode tokens.txt song_out.gp5

# Process tokens: merge to single acoustic track
asdadagp process tokens.txt processed.txt --merge-tracks

# Process tokens with structured measures JSON (includes tuning & playing order)
asdadagp process tokens.txt processed.json --merge-tracks --measures

# Inspect file info (works for both .gp* or token files)
asdadagp info song.gp5
asdadagp info tokens.txt

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CLI Reference

The package installs the asdadagp command.

encode — Guitar Pro → tokens

asdadagp encode INPUT.gp[3|4|5|x] OUTPUT.txt [--artist NAME] [--tuning]

• INPUT.gp* — Guitar Pro file to encode
• OUTPUT.txt — destination token file (one token per line)
• --artist NAME — optional first‑line artist token (default: "Unknown")
• --tuning — if set, append tuning info to note tokens; otherwise only string tunings in the header

decode — tokens → Guitar Pro

asdadagp decode INPUT.txt OUTPUT.gp5

• INPUT.txt — token file produced by encode/processing
• OUTPUT.gp5 — Guitar Pro output (GP5 format is typical target)

process — transform token streams

asdadagp process INPUT.txt OUTPUT.(txt|json) [--merge-tracks] [--measures]

• --merge-tracks — Merge all tracks into 1 (otherwise it keeps only the first acoustic/clean guitar track) and remove cleanX: prefixes (e.g., clean0:note:s6:f0:D3 → note:s6:f0:D3)
• --measures — output a JSON object with:
  • tokens — index→token map (all processed tokens)
  • measures — list of per‑measure token lists
  • playing_order — measure indices in actual playback order accounting for repeats/alternatives
  • tuning — string tuning extracted from tokens

If --measures is used, OUTPUT must end with .json.

info — summarize a file

asdadagp info INPUT.(gp3|gp4|gp5|gpx|txt)

• For .gp* files: prints title/artist/album/track count/measure count/tempo + per‑track tunings
• For token files: prints token counts and rough token‑type histogram

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Python Reference

Import from the top‑level package asdadagp:

from asdadagp import (
    __version__,
    # main conversions
    asdadagp_encode, guitarpro2tokens,
    asdadagp_decode, tokens2guitarpro,
    # processing helpers
    get_string_tunings, tracks_check, tokens_to_measures, measures_playing_order,
    # utilities
    get_tuning_type, get_fret, convert_spn_to_common,
    # constants
    instrument_groups, supported_times, wait_token_list2,
)

Conversions

asdadagp_encode(input_file: str, output_file: str, note_tuning: bool, artist_token: str) -> None

Encodes a Guitar Pro file into a token text file.

• input_file: path to .gp3/.gp4/.gp5/.gpx file
• output_file: path to write tokens (one per line)
• note_tuning: if True, append tuning to note tokens
• artist_token: first‑line artist token (e.g., "John Doe")

Related lower‑level function:

guitarpro2tokens(song: guitarpro.Song, artist: str, verbose: bool, note_tuning: bool) -> list[str]

Converts an in‑memory guitarpro.Song into tokens.

asdadagp_decode(input_file: str, output_file: str) -> None

Decodes a token text file back into a Guitar Pro file.
Related lower‑level function:

tokens2guitarpro(all_tokens: list[str], verbose: bool = False) -> guitarpro.Song

Builds an in‑memory guitarpro.Song from tokens.

Processing

get_string_tunings(tokens: list[str]) -> list[str]

Extracts per‑string tunings from a token list.

tracks_check(tokens: list[str], merge_track: bool) -> list[str]

Optionally merges to the first acoustic/clean track and removes cleanX: prefixes.

tokens_to_measures(tokens: list[str]) -> list[TokenMeasure]

Parses tokens into measure objects (repeat/alternative markers retained in structure).

measures_playing_order(measures: list[TokenMeasure], tokens: bool = False) -> list[int] | list[list[str]]

Computes actual playback order considering repeats and alternatives. If tokens=True, returns the measures’ token lists in order rather than indices.

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Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feature/your-feature
3. Commit: git commit -m "feat: add your feature"
4. Push: git push origin feature/your-feature
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
Original project dadaGP by dada-bots is MIT as well.