On the MIDI side of things, a long time ago, I did write a stack to do some
music related operations.
http://code.google.com/p/wu-robotics/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fmusic

I used it to make this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zI3UWUIQQ

(There also was a fork of the Create driver which is probably now lost to
the ages that also accepted the music_msgs input)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Raymond Sheh <Raymond.Sheh@curtin.edu.au>
wrote:

>  Hi Michael,
>
>
> Thanks for your reply! Funnily enough I ran into your old project right
> when your email came in and was wondering if it might well solve my
> problems.
>
> I'm still going through the relevant docs so I'm asking the following with
> an incomplete understanding but I was wondering if your thoughts may help
> short circuit my thinking a little.
>
> I'm planning on using a chunk of Python to aggregate the ROS messages I'm
> interested in and figure out what sounds to play. It's sounding like
> Supercollider is the way to go to actually generate the sounds. Would there
> be an advantage to keeping things in ROS and using ROSOSC to talk to
> Supercollider, versus using Python's OSC interface to talk out to
> Supercollider directly?
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Raymond
>
>
> On 11/11/2014 9:55 PM, Michael Carroll wrote:
>
> Raymond,
>
>  I wrote a bridge between ros and OSC quite a while ago.  I don't know
> that it will still work, but I think that it would provide a reasonable
> starting place for your experiments.
>
>  https://github.com/Auburn-Automow/rososc
>
>  ~mc
>
> On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Raymond Sheh <Raymond.Sheh@curtin.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> We're trying to figure out a way to have our robot's beeps be a little
>> more musical and on-the-fly generated so I'm looking for a way of piping
>> ROS messages into a software music synthesiser of some sort (or synthesizer
>> for those of you in the US).
>>
>> I've found lots of stuff about getting ROS to play sounds or to say text
>> via a text-to-speech synth but I'm drawing a bit of a blank on something
>> that is more musical.
>>
>> Before I go to the trouble of connecting ROS to something like
>> Supercollider or Fluidsynth, I was just wondering if anyone here knew of
>> work already being done in this direction. My Google-fu is kinda failing me
>> on this one.
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> - Raymond
>>
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