On Wednesday, September 30, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimecres, 30 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > I'm interested in KMid, and very sorry for the orphan.
>
> You can always adopt it ;-)

Right. In one way or another, this is something I'm seriously considering. I 
really want a good MIDI/Karaoke player for Linux, and KMid has several very 
interesting features:
* Playback to external MIDI devices.
* Allow to use software synths as well, like Timidity++ and QSynth/FluidSynth.
* Change tempo and volume control. I want to add a key (transpose) control as 
well.
* Independent MIDI channel mute control.
* Support for many character encodings for lyrics, and configurable fonts.

Some of my short-term goals for KMid are:
* Remove the deprecated OSS /dev/sequencer interface support. It has been 
dropped from OSSv4, anyway. 
* A fair ALSA sequencer implementation: don't create/destroy the client and 
port instances on each play/pause/stop action. This would allow the usage of 
KMid with a MIDI Patch Bay application like aconnect, kaconnect and qjackctl.
* Avoid using fork/kill for play/pause/stop actions.

I can provide some experience on KDE and ALSA MIDI applications, as 
contributions to Rosegarden and other Linux-audio projects, and as author of 
several projects at sourceforge.net:
* virtual MIDI piano keyboard, http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
* kmetronome, http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net
* kmidimon, http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmidimon
* aseqmm library, http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/aseqmm
The last one is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, 
using Qt4 objects, idioms and style. Used in KMetronome and KMidimon, it 
would be useful to revamp KMid.

Regards,
Pedro
 
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