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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KMid: draw note events
From:       Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-30 8:14:58
Message-ID: 200909301014.58177.pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimarts, 29 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > other architecture than not Linux? If it does a better patch has to be
> > > researched
> >
> > As an alternative, I can offer my virtual piano widget. It works in
> >  Windows, Mac and Linux and is used in my program VMPK:
> >
> > http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
>
> New (and maintained) applications are always a good thing, how does VMPK
> compare to kmid? It's the same feature set? It's KDE-based or Qt-based?

KMid and VMPK features don't overlap too much. KMid is a MIDI and Karaoke 
files player. VMPK can't play MIDI files by itself. It is a virtual keyboard, 
an emulator of a MIDI musical instrument implemented in software only, using 
the mouse and the computer keyboard to generate MIDI events. VMPK is 
Qt4-based (not KDE-based) application, GPLv3 licensed.

The only overlapping is related to the "Pianola" function. KMid can be used as 
a standalone player piano device, to watch the pressed piano keys while the 
song is being played. To use VMPK as a Pianola in Linux, you need to connect 
it to some ALSA sequencer based MIDI file player. For instance, playing a 
song with Rosegarden or Muse or MuseScore, connected to the input of VMPK. 
This demo is a song played by MuseScore connected to VMPK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jlej7cnQA

Regards,
Pedro
 
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