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Comment by matheusmoreira | Hacker News Reader

To me it seems like files could get hard to understand if events that happen simultaneously aren't horizontally lined up like this:

  2.0 voice1 | voice2 | ...

Like a text version of old school tracker interfaces:

https://youtu.be/eclMFa0mD1c

  POS | TRACK #1 | TRACK #2 | ...

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Aren't the notes adjacent enough on consecutive lines?

  2.0 note Cmaj7 ch=1 
  2.0 note D ch=1 
  2.0 note C dur=0.15 ch=2
  2.1 note C ch=2
  2.1 note Cmaj ch=1

Imagine there are four, eight, maybe dozens of voices being mixed together in a track. Could get unwieldly.

That's why I decided to allow arbitrary order within the file. In this way you can group notes by instruments and the parser will deal with reordering them.

I also plan to create a flag for the CLI tool that reorders the lines within the mtxt file in such way, that notes are grouped by instruments.

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