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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt based note editor with midi import
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-31 19:03:40
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Please make announcements on kde-announce, on freshmeat,
or where-ever else, but not on kde-devel. This is a development list.

It's not even a KDE program, besides... :)

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Joerg Anders wrote:
> 
> 
> Version 1.5.0 of the  note editor on Linux (GPL, beta) is ready:
> 
> http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~ja/noteedit/noteedit.html
> 
> New feature
> ============
> 
> - Import Midi
> 
> There are still some restrictions but I imported from Classical Midi Archive
>      (http://prs.net/midi.html)
> 
>  + the 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th symphonie
>         (http://prs.net/cgi-bin/n.cgi/acb/1/gmb5m1.mid)
>  + Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" (very lazy to see it playing)
>       (http://prs.net/cgi-bin/n.cgi/acb/7/bumble.mid)
> 
> The result looks as if a musician could play this. One restriction:
> "noteedit" does still not recognize the correct key signature. This will
> be. So long you can try to insert the key signature.
> 
> 
> Other Properties
> =================
> 
>    * insertion/deletion/modification of notes, rests, dotted notes, slured
>      notes, clefs (with/without octave shift), time signatures,
>      key signatures, beamed notes, triplets on different staffs;
>    * building accords, undo, block copy, block delete,multi staff block copy, 
>      multi staff block delete;
>    * program (instrument) change
>    * playing on /dev/sequencer (if correctly configured) whereby:
>         o giving each staff a different voice;
>         o giving each staff a different channel;
>         o highlighting the played notes;
>         o setting midi tempo;
>    * export MusiXTeX
>    * export Midi
>    * saving an restoring the files. The file format is similarily to the
>      format of the music publication program (MUP):
> 	http://www.arkkra.com
>      So you if you are a MUP user you have the possibility to convert 
>      the files into Midi and Postscript.
> 
> Because it is a Qt program I plan to transform it into a KDE
> application (if ther is enough interest).
> 
> Planned
> =======
> 
> *transpose
> *mute
> 
> Conditions
> ==========
> 
> The program is tested on S.u.S.E.-Linux 6.2, Qt-2.0.2-13, and sound card
> AWE-64. I used egcs-2.91.66.
> 
> You need the following packages:
> 
>    * g++ compiler
>    * X11 (include and libraries)
>    * Qt-2 (include and libraries)
>    * the TSE3 library version 0.0.3
>      (a powerful sequencer library by Pete Goodliffe
>       <pete.goodliffe@pace.co.uk>)
> 
> likewise:
> 
>    * LibKMid; see http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/libkmid.html
> 
> 	(not all features are available in this case)
> 
> You can compile the program without any library. But in this case an
> 
> 	#include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/soundcard.h
> 
> occurs which can cause a lot of machine/sound card depencies. Therefore if
> your sound doesn't work and you are sure Midi works on your machine (you use
> KMid successfully) then try compilation one of the library.
> 
> -- 
> J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
> 
>  
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