wild hairs and micro tones

[bachus]

Speaking of hirsute (elsewhere)--I got a wild hair up my butt about a month ago needling me to learn C# (and at least a little WPF). So I started translating an incomplete C++ program I was working on a few years back which got a bit farther than randomly generating open score , displaying it and score hit testing. But obviously from that point code to do GUI editing of score is a simple matter. This is more interesting now as the .NET MIDI API is clean and deep and there is at least one Open Source high level MIDI library on line: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/MIDIToolkit.aspx

The translation is going well enough that there is some (slight) chance this might reach useful functionality before the APIs become obsolete. It obviously won't be a replacement for things like Sibelius at that point. My interest is to add real time musical analysis (several excellent books on the subject have been published over the past 10 year or so). And eventually to add a sequencer to replace the one in Sonar that I have too use custom CAL routines with. It also seems to me that it might not be too big a deal to add microtonal notation and MIDI playback. (I haven't looked at how this is done but I'd guess on a line per channel basis so you can transmit midi pitch-bend info for each note?) CP chord structure analysis is trivial to implement so you could also create pitch tables that were applied by a note's function in a chord. Does this sound worth while? Any suggestions as to whats' needed here.

I'm thinking that when I get it a little past editing CP notation I'll put it up on Sourceforge.NET maybe I'll get lucky LOL