Command line tool for generating and working with MIDI files.

atm-cli

Overview

atm-cli is a command line tool for generating and working with MIDI files. It was purpose-built for All the Music, LLC to assist in its mission to enable musicians to make all of their music without the fear of frivolous copyright lawsuits. All code is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. If you’re looking for a Rust library to generate and work with MIDI files, check out the libatm project, on which this tool relies. For more information on All the Music, check out allthemusic.info. For more detailed information about the code, check out the crate documentation here.

Choice of License

All datasets generated by All the Music, LLC have been released in the public domain, which means they are free for anyone to use for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. However, if we released the code into the public domain under CC0, we would have no control over entities using it with malicious intent. CC BY 4.0 allows us to assert that no one can place additional restrictions on derivative works, while still allowing anyone to:

• copy and redistribute the code in any medium or format
• remix, transform, and build upon the code for any purpose, even commercially

Installation

atm-cli is written in Rust, and thus requires the Rust toolchain to compile. Follow the instructions at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install to install the toolchain. Once that is complete, clone the repo and compile the tool:

$ git clone https://github.com/allthemusicllc/atm-cli.git
$ cd atm-cli
$ git submodule update --init
$ cargo build --release
$ cargo run --release -- -h # show usage

Getting Started

To generate a single MIDI file from a melody, use the single directive:

atm single -n 'C:4,D:4,E:4,F:4,G:4,A:4,B:4,C:5' -t test.mid

To brute-force a range of melodies with a given length, generated from a given input note sequence, use the batch directive:

atm batch -n 'C:4,D:4,E:4,F:4,G:4,A:4,B:4,C:5' -L 8 -b 20 -p 2 -t C4_D4_E4_F4_G4_A4_B4_C5.tar

After brute-force generating a range of melodies with the batch command, lookup the output batch for note sequence with the partition directive:

atm partition -n 'C:4,C:4,C:4,C:4,C:4,C:4,C:4,C:5' -p 2

You can download existing datasets generated by All the Music, LLC from:

https://archive.org/download/allthemusicllc-datasets

Usage

atm 0.2.0
All The Music, LLC
Tools for generating and working with MIDI files.  This app was created as part of an effort to generate by brute-force
billions of melodies, and is tailored for that use case.

USAGE:
    atm [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    batch        Generate by brute-force MIDI files containing permutations of a sequence of MIDI pitches
    help         Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    partition    Generate the output path from the 'batch' directive for a given MIDI pitch sequence
    single       Generate single MIDI file from provided MIDI pitch sequence