a clumsy little test to generate random MIDI files. There are dso many ways to represent MIDI data as ASCII. This one lends itself to creating melodic lines that follow the ways that Python can navigate lists. Try throwing a sorting algorithm at it -- how would that sound?

makemidi.ipynb

out_20190418-000123.csv

0, 0, Header, 1, 2, 960
1, 0, Start_track
1, 0, Time_signature, 4, 2, 24, 8
1, 0, Tempo, 869565
1, 0, End_track
2, 0, Start_track
2, 0, Note_on_c, 0, 67, 127
2, 250, Note_on_c, 0, 67, 0
2, 250, Note_on_c, 0, 12, 127
2, 500, Note_on_c, 0, 12, 0
2, 500, Note_on_c, 0, 70, 127
2, 750, Note_on_c, 0, 70, 0
2, 750, Note_on_c, 0, 68, 127
2, 1000, Note_on_c, 0, 68, 0
2, 1000, Note_on_c, 0, 57, 127
2, 1250, Note_on_c, 0, 57, 0
2, 1250, Note_on_c, 0, 13, 127
2, 1500, Note_on_c, 0, 13, 0
2, 1500, Note_on_c, 0, 60, 127
2, 1750, Note_on_c, 0, 60, 0
2, 1750, Note_on_c, 0, 76, 127
2, 2000, Note_on_c, 0, 76, 0
2, 2000, Note_on_c, 0, 73, 127
2, 2250, Note_on_c, 0, 73, 0
2, 2250, Note_on_c, 0, 19, 127
2, 2500, Note_on_c, 0, 19, 0
2, 2500, Note_on_c, 0, 19, 127
2, 2750, Note_on_c, 0, 19, 0
2, 2750, Note_on_c, 0, 18, 127
2, 3000, Note_on_c, 0, 18, 0
2, 3000, Note_on_c, 0, 65, 127
2, 3250, Note_on_c, 0, 65, 0
2, 3250, Note_on_c, 0, 60, 127
2, 3500, Note_on_c, 0, 60, 0
2, 3500, Note_on_c, 0, 31, 127
2, 3750, Note_on_c, 0, 31, 0
2, 3750, Note_on_c, 0, 23, 127
2, 4000, Note_on_c, 0, 23, 0
2, 4000, Note_on_c, 0, 2, 127
2, 4250, Note_on_c, 0, 2, 0
2, 4250, Note_on_c, 0, 64, 127
2, 4500, Note_on_c, 0, 64, 0
2, 4500, Note_on_c, 0, 8, 127
2, 4750, Note_on_c, 0, 8, 0
2, 4750, Note_on_c, 0, 12, 127
2, 5000, Note_on_c, 0, 12, 0
2, 5000, End_track
0, 0, End_of_file