cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23629324

It also obscures any licensing issues one might have.

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131680638

At the age of 34, being extremely socially reclusive, and being autistic myself, I don't really think I have any chance of getting a relationship. I also have issues with staying attached to neurotypical/non-autistic people, people that drink alcohol regularly (I was raised by an alcoholic grandmother, you probably can put the two together), also I'm disabled in other ways too, etc.

A lot of people often like to say "ace/aro/demi people just too disappointed/have too high standards". Here I am being so disappointed and probably having way too high standards, yet I still vow for a romantic relationship, and thus often feel lonely from it.

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131573421

I have created a new MIDI format to overcome both the limitations of the current one and the unwillingness of the International MIDI Consortium to develop a MIDI 2.0 file format. So I made my own for my game engine. I even added some primitive scripting features.

But here comes the big problem: now I need to develop an editor. While I created a textual representation of it, which is a weird mix of assembly with Lua influences and essentially musical notes and rhythm as values, but eventually it should have a full GUI editor.

The format so far has the following kind of commands:

• Flow control commands
• MIDI emit commands which can be either:
  • Note on and off commands
  • Velocity change (aftertouch)
  • Program change
  • Control change
  • Pitch bend
  • A few other less important commands (SysEx, etc.)
• Commands for the scripting (Arithmetic commands on writable registers, compare and branch, etc.)
• The ever important wait command, on which the whole system depends, as it tells the sequencer how much clock cycles have to wait between two commands

I have to process these commands for two display widgets, one displays the notes in a piano roll format, one displays any other commands. However, thanks to the way things work, I usually cannot just process MIDI commands directly. For example, notes are defined by a note-on and note-off event (often with aftertouch), no duration. And then comes editing. And then comes to editing around various wait commands. And then comes to editing around various conditional jump commands.

I started to work on a system that converted and separated each command for display, but it's a bit time consuming, and adds extra complexity. But modifying it a bit and adding a "transpiler" to the two systems would make editing pretty easy to implement. I already added "macro"-like features to the textual representation of the format. Could this work?