Create playable punch cards for music boxes!
Utilities for generating physical punch cards for playable music boxes (e.g. 15-note Kikkerland music box kit or 30-note Wingostore music box kit) from symbolicly-notated music, e.g. MIDI files.
Under active development! Next dev steps:
- Generate static website for conversion of MIDI, rather than running Julia script
- Support input from musicbox.fun
- Repo niceties as still needed (CI/etc)
- Install Julia
- Clone this repo
- Launch Julia REPL:
julia --project=/path/to/MusicBoxPunchCardMaker - In Julia REPL
using Pkg
Pkg.activate(".")
using MusicBoxPunchCardMaker
file = joinpath(pkgdir(MusicBoxPunchCardMaker), "demo_songs", "ThousandMiles.mid")
# Run the conversion---use either `MUSIC_BOX_15_NOTES` or `MUSIC_BOX_30_NOTES`
# depending on what music box you have access to
output = midi_to_musicbox(file; music_box_notes=MUSIC_BOX_15_NOTES)
# Preview the punch card song---warning, may be loud!! turn your computer volume
# down first. Also, not lovely, and will not sound like a music box :)
play_punch_card_preview(; output...)
# What if you don't want to allow any transposition, and just want to throw out any unsupported notes?
# Hard-code the transposition amount to zero:
output_no_transpose = midi_to_muiscbox(file; transposition_amount=0)- As prompted by the output of
midi_to_musicbox, copy arrays inoutput.noteCoordinatesXandoutput.noteCoordinatesYinto the same-named parameters in this Cuttle template. The template will generate a downloadable/cuttable SVG, with instructions for how to then cut out the cards/holes with a laser cutter or by hand.