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The aim of the Dolce package is to provide a higher-level, more musically expressive and abstract set of routines for generating MIDI data. It is meant to make expressing algorithmic music more intuitive and easy, by taking care of low-level MIDI implementation so that the composer can focus on his composition rather than following midi messages!

Installation

Run the command

pip install dolce

to install Dolce from Pypi.

Quick Start

First things first: importing and initializing the module

>>> import dolce

>>> dolce.realtime.init()

Now we can create a single note. I call this note c4:

>>> c4 = dolce.note("c4")

and put it in a list and send it to the processor to play it:

>>> dolce.proc([c4])

If your midi sequenceris setup and running, you should have heared a beautiful C4 note now!

Let us now define a second note with the key number 72, and specify it’s starting time (onset) to be 1 second after the processor starts:

>>> c5 = dolce.note(pch=72, onset=1)
>>> dolce.proc([c4, c5])

You should have heared both notes, played after each other.

Dolce is hosted on Codeberg.