Tab2Midi converts a piano tab file into a playable audio MIDI file.

These instructions will help you get Tab2Midi running on your local system.

The prerequsites of Tab2Midi are located in a pip requirements file. Use the command below to install everything needed at once

pip install -r requirements.txt

A step by step guide of installing Tab2Midi onto your local system

TBD

Example running on a Windows/OS X/Linux system from the root directory of tab2midi-master

python -m tab2midi -t path/to/tab_file.tab
python -m tab2midi --tab ../other/path/to/tab_file.tab

For additional information - use either of the following commands

python -m tab2midi -h
python -m tab2midi --help

• Mido - MIDI Objects for Python

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

• Chaeson B Smith - Initial work - GitHub

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

To view a copy of the GNU General Public License - see the LICENSE file.

• TabNabber
  • General idea for the Tab2Midi project
  • Helped in initial debugging of MIDI file creation
  • Piano tab syntax used as a baseline for the Tablature Language Syntax
• Mido - MIDI Objects for Python
  • Documenation helped to understand MIDI files and how messages are written
  • Library extensively used in MIDI file creation in Tab2Midi