1 Reply by ccampbell

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neilbaldwin wrote:

Not a MML user myself but that's a great idea and nicely put together smile

Thanks Neil! I'm a big fan of your work.

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2 Reply by ccampbell

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Hey, I feel like this may be an appropriate topic to post this.  I've been working on a project that is an extension of MML to make some things a bit easier.  You can read more about it here:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5862/ … d-mml-mmlx

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3 Topic by ccampbell

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I'm new here, but I wanted to share a little project I've been working on for the last few weeks.  It is called MMLX which stands for MML Extended. 

I only recently started getting into chiptune composing.  Since I'm a programmer MML feels more natural to me than using a tracker, but in some ways it is limiting, and there is not a whole lot of easy to find examples/documentation. 

I decided to try writing my own language to make some things easier to do using MML.

Essentially MMLX is a superset of MML.  It offers a bunch of features that MML on its own does not support including:

- Defining instruments
- Portamento
- ADSR Envelopes
- Using variables
- Transposing

You can check out the project at:
https://github.com/ccampbell/mmlx

Getting started guide:
https://github.com/ccampbell/mmlx/wiki/Getting-Started

Documentation:
https://github.com/ccampbell/mmlx/wiki/Documentation

I should point out that I have only tested it using Python 2.6 on Mac OS 10.6 and only using the default 5 NES voices A-E.  I believe it should run on Linux as well.  I don't have a windows machine to test on so if anyone is interested feel free to fork the project on GitHub and add Windows support.

I also have included a TextMate/Sublime Text 2 bundle with syntax highlighting that looks like this:
http://f.cl.ly/items/3B2B2R12303j0E283E3b/mmlx.html

I also hope that someone else might find this useful.

I look forward to hearing feedback. 

Please report bugs and feature requests on GitHub:
https://github.com/ccampbell/mmlx/issues

Craig

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