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PySynth is no longer being actively developed by me and has therefore been removed from PyPI.

There is now a maintained fork of PySynth atg4brielvs/PySynth.

PySynth is a simple music synthesizer for Python 2 or 3. The goal is not to produce many different sounds, but to have scripts that can turn ABC notation or MIDI files into a WAV file without too much tinkering.

The current release of the synthesizer can only play one note at a time. (Although successive notes can overlap in PySynth B and S, but not A.) However, two output files can be mixed together to get stereo sound.

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:mdoege/PySynth.git

or

git clone https://github.com/mdoege/PySynth.git

Enter the directory (cd PySynth) and run

python3 setup.py install

Basic usage:

importpysynthaspstest= (('c',4), ('e',4), ('g',4),('c5',-2), ('e6',8), ('d#6',2))ps.make_wav(test,fn="test.wav")

More advanced usage:

importpysynth_baspsb# a, b, e, and s variants available''' (note, duration)Note name (a to g), then optionally a '#' for sharp or'b' for flat, then optionally the octave (defaults to 4).An asterisk at the end means to play the note a littlelouder.  Duration: 4 is a quarter note, -4 is a dottedquarter note, etc.'''song= (  ('c',4), ('c*',4), ('eb',4),   ('g#',4),  ('g*',2), ('g5',4),  ('g5*',4), ('r',4), ('e5',16),  ('f5',16),  ('e5',16),  ('d5',16),  ('e5*',4) )# Beats per minute (bpm) is really quarters per minute herepsb.make_wav(song,fn="danube.wav",leg_stac=.7,bpm=180)

Read ABC file and output WAV:

python3 read_abc.py straw.abc

More documentation and examples at thePySynth homepage.