melrose
by emicklei
interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI
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Added 12/27/2025
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Installation
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/emicklei/melroseMelrōse - programming of music melodies
Introduction
melrōse is a tool to create and play music by programming melodies.
It uses a custom language to compose notes and create loops and tracks to play.
This is an example of a simple major scale C.
sequence('c d e f g a b c5')
Note sequences in your program can be changed while playing giving you direct audible feedback.
For the best experience, use the melrōse tool together with the Visual Studio Code Plugin for Melrōse.
See also Blog post
Install
See Build instructions.
Usage
melrōse is a tool to create music by programming melodies and uses a custom language to compose notes that are played with MIDI.
Note sequences in your program can be changed while playing which makes it possible to even use it for live performance.
For the best experience, use the melrōse together with the Visual Studio Code Plugin for Melrōse.
Read the documentation on how to use melrōse.
Status
The language has reached version 1.0 since tool version v1.0.0 and therefore future changes will only extend it (1.x) and not introduce breaking changes.
