Arranging, transposing, and composing music goes here.
This song. It hits me hard for some reason. I want to reach into that song and give it a hug and let it know it's okay and we're all in this. I took a piano arrangement for it and arranged the treble on the glockenbox and the left hand on the lignoutron, but they are way unbalanced and it sounded terrible.
As a musician, I want to write or arrange music in music notation using software like Sibelius so I can have the music played using MIDI on physical instruments. Each note that is played has a written pitch including accidentals and octaves, a MIDI number, a channel number, and the note, effect, function, or sound that happens when that note is played. A configuration listing a set of notes and their actions is defined in a table that I’m calling the MIDI Map.
Here's an example of fields I envision for a MIDI map:
Written note
Self-playing mechanical instruments were controlled by holes in paper or pins on a cylinder (like your wind-up music box), so each vertical column represented one note or action that the instrument would take. The layout of these vertical columns is called a "scale."