This tutorial will show you how to write a program that creates MIDI files of guitar chords by processing text files. Although I wrote this in Objective-C and the GUI is built using Cocoa, the MIDI algorithms could easily be applied to another language or platform. Essentially, this program scans a text file to look for a chord or some other symbol that it recognizes. Then it translates that into MIDI format code, and continues parsing until it reaches the end of the file. Continue reading
Guitar Chords to MIDI in Objective-C
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