MelCom

MelCom is a melody compiler program that enables you to produce Midi files from textual descriptions of music. MelCom uses a simple textual language where you can describe melodic music mainly by typing the names and durations of the notes.

MelCom supports Middle-Eastern music (aka "Arab-music" and "Arabic music") via providing 1/4 tones. The textual language includes two additional accidentals, one for half-flat and the other for half-sharp. These additional accidentals produce true quarter-tone sounds both in the playback preview and in the generated Midi file.

Sections of music can be predefined and reused multiple times by just referring to the definition's name. The app is also supporting tuplets and can produce Midi meta events.

Before compiling the written description of the music into a Midi file, MelCom allows the user to preview the described music both audibly and visually. Each note in the text is highlighted while being played during playback preview.

To sum it up, Melcom is an interesting tool that lets you create Midi files from the written descriptions of a given song/music. It has a simple interface and several tools that can tweak and complete the process.