The sheet music style is too clunky. I need a way to convert sheet music into numbers or letters. I am trying to create AI to compose music and am looking alternatives for sheet music style notation.
In theory you should be able to convert sheet music from a PDF to MIDI with something like this (I did a quick Google search)<p><a href="https://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.musitek.com/smartscore-midi.html</a><p>Once you have a MIDI[1] file, you can do a lot of interesting things with your music, such as generating or modifying notes with random values for pitch, velocity etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI</a>
you can use abc notation<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation</a><p><a href="http://abc.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://abc.sourceforge.net/</a><p>or vextab<p><a href="http://www.vexflow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vexflow.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vexflow.com/vextab/tutorial.html</a>