Audio MML Music Macro Language in Unity

The aim is to play music/sound effects defined in MML (text files for ancient 8-bit chiptunes) in Unity, either interpreting the codes or perhaps converting to MOD files on the fly.

It was very popular in Japan, there are online converters, but I can't find any software or tools to do even half the job.

Any suggestions welcome. The reasons for wanting to use MML are solid, so that's not really up for debate.

 

check github for anything related (or something that at least converts to another format, which might be then easier to use)
if could find c# or c++ libraries, could try calling them from unity:
https://github.com/Enichan/textplayer
https://github.com/captainys/MMLPlayer
https://edugit.org/Teckids/hacknfun/libs/mmllib
https://www.posemotion.com/macrotune/ *export wav, and some dll files for devs?

for those online converters,
could probably make some script that uploads your file there and downloads results..

 

Thanks! From what I see

• textplayer is just the parser, no output
• MMLplayer generates wave files
• mmlib is Python, and seems to target low level hardware
• macrotune is a desktop program oriented towards composing and editing.

So MML parsers exist (but it's pretty easy anyway). Maybe I need to focus on how to create MOD files by API, and just write the parser myself. I can't find that either so far.

 

checked some things,
this mentions mod support https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/music/basslink-free-194903
mods to pcm data https://github.com/libxmp/libxmp
c# mod player https://github.com/thegouldfish/SharpMik

this looks interesting, theres demo down the page too
https://github.com/mohayonao/mml-emitter

https://github.com/mohayonao/mml-iterator
c# something https://github.com/Silenthal/PetitMIDI