RISC OS abcMIDI

Welcome to the RISC OS abc MIDI page.

I've made a port of some abc apps by James Allwright. Abc notation is a simple but powerful ASCII musical notation format. Devised by Chris Walshaw, abc is widely used for the notating and distribution of tunes, particularly on the internet. Very popular in traditional music circles, it is also gaining in popularity in early music.

For further information on abc, the various software packages available, and links to other abc sites and tune collections, go to the abc home page HERE

For further information on these original utilities go to the page by James Allwright HERE

You can download RISC OS abc apps HERE

in this zip file:

• abc2midi - version 2.1.4 - a program to convert abc notation to MIDI files.
• midi2abc - version 1.9.4 - a program to produce crude abc from a MIDI file.
• abc2abc - version 1.7.8 - a utility to do transposition, error checking and re-formatting on an abc file.
• yaps - version 0.9.9 - a utility to convert abc to PostScript based on Michael Methfessel's PostScript library for abc2ps.
• mftext - 22/6/98 - Convert a MIDI file to verbose text.

With these utility you can traslate MIDI <-> abc files, and you can print scores in poscript format.

Please note that this is a first release, which means it isn't bug free, so use at your own risk (and please report bugs to me).

Tommaso Leddi

leddit@tiscalinet.it