maelzel 1.5.22

Framework for computer music and composition

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maelzel

maelzel is a framework for computer music in python. It provides datatypes to define notes, chords, sequences, lines, voices and entire scores. These objects can be combined with soundfiles and samples, rendered as notation and recorded or synthesized in realtime.

It provides functionality for composition, music notation, sound analysis and synthesis, feature extraction, transcription and machine learning

Documentation

https://maelzel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

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Installation

pip install maelzel

Dependencies

• python >= 3.9

• csound (>= 6.18)

In macos/arm64 lilypond needs to be installed. The recommended way is to first install homebrew, then install lilypond via brew install lilypond

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Demos

https://maelzel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Introduction.html#demo-notebooks

Or check the example notebooks:

https://github.com/gesellkammer/maelzel/tree/master/docs/notebooks