I am interested in visualizing melodic contours of polyphonic music with Processing. It is still unclear to me, though, what the most convenient format for imported data (pitch and onset/duration) would be: tabular (e.g. Humdrum), XML (e.g. MEI, musicXML), or JSON? Maybe another format?
Any suggestions/thoughts on this would be really helpful! Thanks.
Using MIDI files would be optimal, because of the combination of those 3 reasons
While other formats might also apply for 1, 2, 3 or 4 only MIDI applies for all of them.