Hi everyone,
I recently started to develop a Free (as in [en.wikipedia.org]) piece of software called "harpy", available here:
[sourceforge.net]
In a nutshell, harpy reads in MIDI files, extracts the channel of your choice and produces the corresponding tabs for the diatonic harmonica of your choice. It currently produces tabs in text format (pretty much like what you can find on harptabs, but following this notation: [www.angelfire.com]) and in LaTeX format.
harpy knows about (low) major, natural minor, harmonic minor, Country tuned and Melody Maker blues harps. It also tells you ``how difficult'' a song is, based
on the advanced techniques you need to master to play the song (bending, overblows and overdraws). If you want to practice those techniques, just choose the harp that suits your needs. If you're not good enough yet, you can select harp(s) that avoid them.
Moreover, if the song is not playable on any harp, harpy tries to find transpositions that render the song playable. You can also restrict your search to a bunch of harps of your choice, or have harpy look for transpositions that avoid bending, overblows or overdraws.
Although I welcome donations (and who wouldn't ;-) ), harpy is available free of charge for every platform. Binaries are only available for Windows at the time, but the source can be run on any platform after installing Python 2.6 (http://www.python.org/).
harpy is still in early development, so there may be bugs and many missing desirable features, but I hope that just like wine, it'll only get better with time (and hard work on my part ...). All the more reasons why I need and welcome your feedback, be it positive or negative (by mail or on harpy's forums: [sourceforge.net] ; I wouldn't want to take up much more space here than I already did).
Thanks for your time, I hope you'll like harpy and find it useful!
I recently started to develop a Free (as in [en.wikipedia.org]) piece of software called "harpy", available here:
[sourceforge.net]
In a nutshell, harpy reads in MIDI files, extracts the channel of your choice and produces the corresponding tabs for the diatonic harmonica of your choice. It currently produces tabs in text format (pretty much like what you can find on harptabs, but following this notation: [www.angelfire.com]) and in LaTeX format.
harpy knows about (low) major, natural minor, harmonic minor, Country tuned and Melody Maker blues harps. It also tells you ``how difficult'' a song is, based
on the advanced techniques you need to master to play the song (bending, overblows and overdraws). If you want to practice those techniques, just choose the harp that suits your needs. If you're not good enough yet, you can select harp(s) that avoid them.
Moreover, if the song is not playable on any harp, harpy tries to find transpositions that render the song playable. You can also restrict your search to a bunch of harps of your choice, or have harpy look for transpositions that avoid bending, overblows or overdraws.
Although I welcome donations (and who wouldn't ;-) ), harpy is available free of charge for every platform. Binaries are only available for Windows at the time, but the source can be run on any platform after installing Python 2.6 (http://www.python.org/).
harpy is still in early development, so there may be bugs and many missing desirable features, but I hope that just like wine, it'll only get better with time (and hard work on my part ...). All the more reasons why I need and welcome your feedback, be it positive or negative (by mail or on harpy's forums: [sourceforge.net] ; I wouldn't want to take up much more space here than I already did).
Thanks for your time, I hope you'll like harpy and find it useful!
