“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. It creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives. MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks.
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“mma—musical midi accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and mma directives.
mma is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. it comes with an extensive userextendable library with a variety of patterns for various popular rhythms, detailed user manuals, and several demo songs.
mma is a command line driven program. it creates midi files which are then played by a sequencer or midi file play program.
gek s. low has also written a nice little gui frontend. he refers to it as a “lazy man's” program to make it easier for folks to enter simple chord progressions. it's written in python and tkinter. get lemma at http://xenon.stanford.edu/~geksiong/lemma.html .
see http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/helpers.html#editors for syntax coloring in editors like emacs, kate and scite.
there are scripts to convert data files from other formats like bandinabox, abc, mup and yamaya .sty (see http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/helpers.html#convert )
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