KMid2: Difference between revisions

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Simple Karaoke or getting the best from your Midi Synthesizer!

KMid 2 is in preparation. As part of Extragear it does not necessarily ship on the same date as KDE SC 4.4, but it is on track for a stable release around that time. Meanwhile, preliminary releases have been published.

So what is the current status?

Currently implemented

Here are some major features implemented in KMid2:

MIDI and Karaoke files are supported.
Playback to external hardware MIDI devices.
Allow to use software synths as well, like Timidity++ and QSynth/FluidSynth.
Tempo and volume controls.
Added a pitch (transpose) control.
Rhythm view (visual metronome).
Configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics.
Playlists (song collections).
MIDI Mapper, translating General Midi events into other events understood by some synthesizers.
Channel window, with solo/muting controls and instrument selectors.
Piano player window, using VMPK artwork and technology.
Runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer.

What is not yet ready?

Support for Windows and Mac OSX.
Multiple MIDI output ports. Currently plays to a single output port.
Konqueror integration.

ChangeLog

2009-12-30 Release 0.1.1

Recent files menu
Highlight trimmed syllables, ignoring leading and trailing white spaces
Allow stop in paused state
Synchronized with lib. aseqmm 0.2.0
Assorted fixes

2009-11-30 Release 0.1.0

Demo

See KMid2 in action in this Screencast

Notes for usage

If you use Timidity++ as a software synthesizer, you may have to install GUS patches or sound fonts. You can find them at freepats
In this case you will need to start Timidity++ with

$ timidity -iA

There is an init script

$ /etc/init.d/timidity start

(in Debian, the package timidity-daemon)

Fluidsynth is an alternative. It has a helpful gui called QSynth. For soundfonts, try General User GS.

For more information and options, there is a tutorial available.

Download

Source packages

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/

openSUSE Build Service - Search packages

http://software.opensuse.org

openSUSE Build Service - RPM packages for openSUSE

openSUSE 11.2

openSUSE 11.1

openSUSE 11.0

openSUSE Build Service - DEB packages for xUbuntu

xUbuntu_9.04

xUbuntu_9.10

Gentoo ebuild

http://packages.gentoo.org

Mandriva 2010

http://www.mandrivalinux.gr

Resources

Some sample .kar and .mid files are installed with the application. Others are available from http://www.mididb.com/ and http://midikaraoke.com/songdir/ . There is a useful search engine at http://www.vanbasco.com/midisearch.html
If you are interested in building for testing, please read the README
The source code repository for testing and development is available from here

Note

This status report has been updated on 30th December 2009

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+:* Recent files menu
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+:* Allow stop in paused state
+:* Synchronized with lib. aseqmm 0.2.0
+:* Assorted fixes
+-11-30 Release 0.1.0
 ==Demo==
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