# Install takt with Homebrew

Text-based music programming language. Version 0.310 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:takt
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install takt
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:takt
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.310
- **Source summary:** Text-based music programming language
- **Homepage:** <https://takt.sourceforge.net/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T10:41:24-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mid2takt (alias)
- takt (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.310
## Project history and usage

Takt is a text-based music programming language and command-line toolset for describing note and chord sequences, algorithmic composition rules, and MIDI transformations. The SourceForge README describes a REPL interpreter, a MIDI-file-to-Takt translator, Takt libraries, documentation, and Emacs integration.

### Project history

The upstream README says Takt was designed by its author, Satoshi Nishimura of the University of Aizu. It combines compact music notation with C-like programming features and object-oriented support so users can mix note-by-note descriptions with algorithmic composition.

SourceForge records the project as registered on 2014-07-14, with release files for 0.308 in September 2014, 0.309 in October 2014, and 0.310 in January 2016. The project status on SourceForge is alpha.

### Adoption history

The official SourceForge page identifies the intended audience as advanced end users, developers, science/research users, music composers, students, educators, MIDI software developers, and computer-music hobbyists. Packaging in Homebrew gives the otherwise niche tool a Unix-style installation path for macOS users.

### How it is used

Takt's interpreter reads code from a console or source file and generates MIDI events in real time or writes them to a MIDI file. The translator can convert MIDI files into editable Takt language form and back again, while the Emacs mode supports MIDI keyboard entry and score-following playback.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about Takt as a small example of research-oriented computer-music software surviving through SourceForge archives and Homebrew packaging. It is not a mainstream CLI, but it shows how domain-specific languages, MIDI tooling, and editor integration are preserved in package managers.

### Timeline

- 2014-07-14: SourceForge project registered.
- 2014-09-01: Takt 0.308 source and binary files listed on SourceForge.
- 2014-10-14: Takt 0.309 source and binary files listed on SourceForge.
- 2016-01-27: Takt 0.310 and README listed as latest SourceForge files.

### Related projects

- Takt is related to command-line and language-based music systems, MIDI file tools, and editor-assisted composition workflows, rather than to general-purpose developer tooling.

### Sources

- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/takt/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/takt/files/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/takt/files/README/download>


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/takt.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/takt.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph