Recently, I found that there were gaps in the musical creativity packages on pypi. There are packages for music analysis and utilities for doing MIDI things, but nothing I could find for actual creativity. I decided to rectify this and port my music and MIDI Perl code to Python.
So, I got tired of starting up my bloated music app (i.e. "LogicPro X", the industrial strength DAW), which is made for recording and mastering, just to fool with my synths, using my own timing systems. Since I'm a programmer, naturally I made a python MIDI program! tl;dr: clock-it.py
So I bought a MIDI Rock "Stone" joystick controller...
For a long time, I have wondered how to easily know what chords have a diatonic function in two different keys (modes). This is known as a "common" or "pivot" chord. Naturally, being a software engineer, I wrote a program to answer this for me! (tl;dr: the mode-pivot program)
I decided to see if I could intercept signals from my MIDI controller and control my Linux machine. YES! (tl;dr: capture-midi)