Comment by usrusr
6 days ago
Count me in as another one with a longstanding mostly dream project aiming for human enjoyable notation grammar.
For me it was coming from tracker notation (buzz), where i was wildly underwhelmed by all that whitespace for timing (well, empty cells for timing) and the lack of parameterizable macros. A seriously underexplored field, perhaps because almost everybody who ever started got pulled in by the lure of textually defined synthesis.
Solved 40yrs ago. AMPLE.
http://www.colinfraser.com/m5000/ample-nucleus-pg.pdf
For macros, see:
https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/user/custom/Acorn/3rdParty/Hybri...