A transpiler which takes Velato source "code" and compiles it to JavaScript.
As Daniel describes it:
Velato is a programming language which uses MIDI files as source code: the pattern of notes determines commands. Velato offers an unusual challenge to programmer-musicians: to compose a musical piece that, in addition to expressing their aims musically, fills the constraints necessary to compile to a working Velato program. Each song has a secret message: the program it determines when compiled as Velato.
Although Velto.js doesn't parse MIDI files for ease of testing.
Velato.js is available via bower and requires escodegen to run.
Add to bower.json:
{
// ... rest of bower.json
"dependencies":{
"escodegen": "latest",
"velatojs": "latest"
}
// ...
}Then include in your HTML file:
<html>
<head>
<script src="bower_components/escodegen/escodegen.browser.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script src="bower_components/velatojs/velato.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Using Velato.js to compile an executable JavaScript string is done using:
var javascript = Velato.compileJS("C A G E E# A D# G");
eval(javascript);By default Velato.js maps the command "C A G" print command to print output to the console with console.log.
Changing the print behaviour is done via implementing the function Velato.output. For example, to open an alert dialogue with the letter H:
Velato.output = function (params) {
alert(params);
}
var javascript = Velato.compileJS("C A G E E# A D# G");
eval(javascript);All the development is managed by a Grunt task in Gruntfile.coffee. The default task build velato.js and runs tests.
npm install
gruntTests are under tests/velato.