KMid2

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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, a preliminary release 0.1.0 has 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.

    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)
    • 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

    Note This status report has been updated on 25th December 2009