&gt;<i>I&#x27;d suggest no one needs yet another text-to-MIDI system.</i><p>Well, I need one. What are you gonna do about it?<p>&gt;<i>And which hardly anyone uses, because for most people - even most programmers - ASCII turns out to be a really clumsy and difficult way to write a non-trivial score.</i><p>Check again. There are large communities around cli tools for music, especially in electronic and experiemental scenes.