Natural Science Forum / Physics / Acoustics / September 2005

1.I am considering doing a simple midi file generator for my
 4th year project in B.SC.
2.I would do it using c language, but i'm not sure how
 difficult it would be.
3.Basically, the executable c program would read a text document
 with some "musical pseudocode" representing some `tune`.
 Then convert the "musical pseudocode" into "midi code" that
 could be played in any midi player like `windows media player`.
4.How exactly would you do this? Eg. If you want to hear
 "middle c" being played for 2 beats, what exactly do you write
 in file.midi sound document?
5.I hear that you could use `truncated fourier series` as a means
 to calculate the note value; but how to do this?
6.Also, how to re-create various musical instruments?
7.Please give me some quick guidence on the above issues.
8.Thanks.