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 1.2.2

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

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

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 🙂

Release of Music Processing Suite 1.2.0

Music Processing Suite 1.2.0 was released on October 26, 2018.

New Features and Enhancements:

  • Updated underlying Eclipse platform to 4.7 (Oxygen)
  • Optimized model compression algorithm in deriver
  • Derived models now contain time signatures, intrument contexts and keys
  • Added algorithm which derives scale degrees relative to the key
  • Added option to enable degrees relative to the key
  • Added configuration parameter for context layer model scaling
  • Added documentation for visualization options
  • Improved path presentations is search result view
  • Improved piano roll plots in analysis reports
  • Columns in aggregated plots are now sorted in analysis reports
  • Added support for half-diminished and diminished seventh chords
  • Improved colors in 3D plots
  • Made documentation and user interface consistent regarding the term “context layer model”
  • Documentation now has table of contents
  • MPS now includes the Eclipse Marketplace Client

Bugfixes:

  • Resolved bugs when resolving fragment references with additional child nodes
  • Fixed ClassCastException that occurred when deriving compressed rhythm representations contained in modifiers
  • Fixed bug resulting in inconsistent tempo specifications when reading MIDI files
  • Fixed inconsistent measure boundaries which occurred when voice begins with rest
  • Fixed issue in which measures with the same boundaries were created twice
  • Fixed TeX capacity exceeded error when generating analysis reports
  • Fixed unicode handling in analysis reports
  • Empty circle of fifth plots in analysis reports are now skipped
  • Fixed export of missing key-related data during analysis
  • Analysis log files are now created correctly (were empty sometimes)
  • Fixed LilyPond export for maj9 chords
  • Octave translation problem when using pitch modifiers was solved
  • Fixed octave translation problem for transposed instruments
  • Tied notes are exported correctly now
  • Fixed problem regarding quotes in metadata fields (such as title, composer etc.)
  • Lyric syllables are now handled correctly after tied notes
  • Harmony stream is only filled if harmonies are explicitly specified
  • Prevent NullPointerException if score geneneration is launched but file does not exist anymore
  • Fixed loudness handling for chords when exporting scores

Latest Release

Latest MPS version: 1.14.0
Released on February 8, 2024

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