EZScore is dead; long live abcsound

As promised, I have updated my EZScore tool to process Chris Walshaw's "abc" textual music notation, and emit Csound score data. Well, actually, I threw EZScore away and started over, with much better results :-) The new version is called "abcsound", and can be found here: http://www.kneuro.net/ezscore.

abcsound handles most abc notation, with enhancements to permit better control of the generated score. There are a couple of problems -- I forgot to implement triplets etc; still need to add dynamics; and intend to add notation for ramping and other pfield control. Those things should be fixed in the next few days, since I am actively using abcsound for my own music now.

Also, it is possible there may be bugs...

Further updates as events warrant.

Nice

This is nice. I use abc notation all the time in Irish traditional music. I never thought of using Csound as a playback engine, I will now.

Rory.

OMG bugs!

Thanks.

I initially implemented abcsound with reference to Steve Mansfield's abc tutorial http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm. However, upon reading the actual abc spec http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc/abc2mtex/abc.txt, I've found that I got a few things wrong. I've fixed repeats and the broken-rhythm notation, but n-lets still don't work. I should have a fix pretty soon (within 48 hours).