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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KMid: draw note events
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-10-01 22:17:41
Message-ID: 200910020017.41679.aacid () kde ! org
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A Dijous, 1 d'octubre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> 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.
You seem like a man with a plan so I'm sure everyone will be happy with you
working in KMid, the next step is
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account :-)
Albert
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>
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