Welcome to the Music Processing Suite Website!

Music Processing Suite (MPS) is a software system for advanced symbolic music processing with the following features:

Music Modeling

MPS is based on music models containing individual representations of musical aspects and contexts such as meter, tempo, rhythms, pitches, scales, harmonies, loudness, lyrics and more.

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Music Analysis

Analysis infrastructure for statistical music analysis and visualization. MPS generates PDF reports containing statistical diagrams, tables, graphs and Markov models.

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Composition Language

Composition language for intuitive, redundancy-free music specification and notation. Easily create your own scores and lead sheets.

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Music Search

Advanced context-sensitive music search functionality

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Transformations

Transformation infrastructure for conversions between various music representation formats such as MPS Models, MIDI, MusicXML, LilyPond, PDF, CSV, SuperCollider and more.

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Powerful IDE

MPS is a powerful customizable application based on Eclipse

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News and Updates

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Release of Music Processing Suite 1.2.3

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Music Processing Suite 1.2.3 was released on March 2, 2019.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed invocation of Batik SVG library which potentially led to ClassNotFoundExceptions , NoClassDefFoundErrors or LinkageErrors depending on the Batik version
  • Fixed threading issue which potentially caused deadlocks when errors occurred while writing Eclipse resources

Release of Music Processing Suite 1.2.2

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Music Processing Suite 1.2.2 was released on February 26, 2019.

New Features and Enhancements:

  • The music model now supports two independent scale degree layers: degrees relative to the key and degrees relative to the local harmony.

Bugfixes:

  • Updated dependencies in order to populate MPS update site properly

Release of Music Processing Suite 1.2.1

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Music Processing Suite 1.2.1 was released on February 22, 2019.

New Features and Enhancements:

  • Analysis reports now contain tables with relative frequencies of words and syllables used in the lyrics of the analyzed piece

Bugfixes:

  • Pitches with more than one accidental (e.g. Bbb, Ebb, Abb) are now correctly serialized to LilyPond
  • Improved handling of empty compositions
  • Repeats are now correctly expanded in MusicXML (if corresponding expand option is activated in the preferences)
  • Improved robustness of MusicXML parser if (erroneous) files initiate a word with a syllable marked as MIDDLE instead of BEGIN
  • Fixed rendering of upbeats when converting MusicXML files to scores

Music Processing Suite Development Visualization

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The following video visualizes the development of MPS from June 2013 to December 2018. I presented it at my PhD disputation and since it is quite entertaining, I decided to share it on the website as well. Enjoy, merry christmas and all the best for 2019 🙂

Latest Release

Latest MPS version: 1.15.0
Released on January 6, 2025

Music Processing Suite is developed by David Pace and originates from his dissertation project at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany.