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24 alternatives to MIDI CITY 2000 - Art experiment where MIDI songs become cities
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MIDI CITY 2000 - Art experiment where MIDI songs become cities launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Interactive art experiment where MIDI songs become cities
2019 · meowni.ca · its alternatives →
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MIDIpad▲59You gamepad is a musical instrument
Sep 2026 · midipad.stevemitchell.music · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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This is an web audio experiment I've been wanting to do for a long time. Basically an ambient music composition, but all the sound elements are laid out in space, and that musical space can be explored freely. It's definitely inspired by in-world music that sometimes appears in games. I basically took that concept, keeping the music aspect, and dropping the entire "game" aspect. I also turned it into a more "traditional" non-interactive album, but since I started with code, why not program the whole thing? Had a blast making the entire album from code, the complete source for the album is…
2024 · ambient.garden · its alternatives →
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An interactive terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback—written in Rust - minimaxir/miditui
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · midi.space · its alternatives →
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Musikcube▲107A fully functional terminal-based music player
2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · midibin.com · its alternatives →
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A modern BBS. Contribute to ansiwave/ansiwave development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChordViz▲75Build your own music visualizer for MIDI & audio
Aug 2026 · chordviz.ca · its alternatives →
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Generate MIDI music from text descriptions using AI.
2025 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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a global field recording sound map with remixes
2017 · citiesandmemory.com · its alternatives →
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Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
11d ago · claude.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · deepsing.com · its alternatives →
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The Infinite MIDI Engine — AI that plays all your synths
Dec 2025 · midilab.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · music-grid.surge.sh · its alternatives →
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Next Generation MIDI for the Web
2017 · mpe.js.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · modmusicgen.com · its alternatives →
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So, I've never written a line of Rust in my life. I wouldn't know an `&mut this` from a mutandis. But I saw a tweet about a month ago that said, in this new era of AI, you'd be able to just take a library that you love, throw a TUI around it, and call it an app. So I spent about 200 bucks last month, here's what I came up with: Imbolc is a DAW that runs entirely in your terminal. It talks to scsynth over OSC and ships 58 instruments and 39 effects. VSTs are a work in progress, also GarageBand loops if you want to recreate "Umbrella". The codebase is about 60k? lines of Rust across 5 crates,…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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