Push "tabs" · Meta Mind Music

Push "tabs"

Hey guys I have an idea for a coding project that I am considering doing and I am curious if anyone thinks this would be useful. Basically what I want to do is write a program that converts MIDI to push 3 "tabs" that will look similar to guitar tabs(In the format with the grand staff above the tab) but instead of guitar frets the vertical lines would represent rows on the push and the number would represent the column. There would also be symbols for octave shifts up and down and would indicate the scale and whether to use in-key or chromatic. The program would "reject" songs that require playing simultaneous notes on multiple push pages but i don't think this would be a common occurrence in real music. I think this would make it much easier to learn the push layout and would make it easy to figure out if a song could be played on the push realistically since you would have a visual representation of the notes and be able to more intuitively figure out how to play a chord with multiple hands for example(This is something strange about push playing I think). It would also allow following along with a lesson book like Alfreds(or even guitar books) with the push instead of the piano(If you can get the pieces in MIDI format). I got some inspiration from this article https://www.chrisperren.com/blog/2020/12/02/a-notation-system-for-ableton-push though the writer seems to call for something that covers every push functionality but I think that is a little excessive.

I still don't know if I actually have the time for this but would anybody be interested in using this?

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