Print Chords

A stand-alone jack application that listens to a midi port and prints the chord names.

Known limitations

Currently, only the following chord types are supported:

• major (with its inversions)
• minor (with its inversions)
• dominant seventh (with its inversions)
• major seventh (with its inversions)
• minor seventh (with its inversions)
• augmented
• diminished (with its inversions)
• power (with its inversion)
• suspended (suspended fourth and suspended second)

Installing

print_chords has only been tested to work under Linux. The only installation method currently provided is to compile from source code, either from crates.io or after downloading the source code.

• Install dependencies: install libjack and libjack-dev or similar from your distro's package manager
• Install rust: install cargo and rustc 1.41.0 or higher from your distro's package manager (not tested) or install rust using rustup
• Compile and install: either
  • run cargo install print_chords OR
  • download the source code of print_chords, go to the folder containing the Cargo.toml file and run cargo install

Usage

See the USAGE.txt file.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Re-use of source code

print_chords is currently only an application and not a library. If you want to re-use part of the source code, I would appreciate it if you get in touch, so that we can discuss how to manage the source code efficiently.

License

print_chords is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version that is approved by Pieter Penninckx.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program, in the file LICENSE-AGPL-3.0.txt. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.