Welcome to dawatoma

DAWATOMA stands for Digital Audio Workstation AuTOMAtion.

dawatoma allows the acceleration of creative tasks that often take place in a DAW. It allows the generation of derived melodies given a 'fingerprint' melody upon which the derived ones are based. The way my creative process often works when producing music is that I have one main melody, and I build the song around that, and a lot of that involves composing additional melodies that go well with the main one. A portion of this is algorithmic and can be outsourced to computational algorithms. There is, of course, already software out there like arpeggiators and such that can do such things, but I wanted to build a package that is built entirely around the idea of deriving melodies from base melodies, with an easily expandable list of derivation protocols that other developers can contribute to. The derived note sequences, as well as the original, can be written to MIDI (.mid) format.

This package utilizes the plain text ".dawa" format to represent note sequences. .dawa format looks as follows and contains all relevant information about a note sequence:

tempo_in_BPM # Commment

note1 time duration

note2 time duration

...

noteN time duration

Where time and duration are in beats, and time is the point in time in the sequence that a note begins, and duration is how long the note lives. The initial strings "not1e1", "note2", etc are strings like "C5" which will be interpreted with the NoteDict, also included in this package.

This package depends on MIDIUtil.