[LAA] Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player 1.5.0 Released

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

[Drumstick](https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/index.html) is a set of 
GPLv3 licensed C++/Qt libraries for MIDI applications. The project includes 
several tools as examples, and among them is the drumstick-guiplayer 
utility that leverages the Drumstick::ALSA library, so it is available only 
for Linux (because the ALSA sequencer is a linux only technology). Some 
people have requested a program with the same functionalities also on 
Windows and macOS, so here it is. But this project is much more ...

Some key features:

* MIDI Output to hardware MIDI ports, or any other Drumstick backends, like 
soft synths
* Transpose song tonality between -12 and +12 semitones
* Change MIDI volume level (using MIDI CC7)
* Scale song speed between half and double tempo
* Supports MID/KAR (Standard MIDI Files) and WRK (Cakewalk) file formats

Changes in v1.5.0:

* Ticket #3: Song loop between bars
* Ticket #7: Help window and user documentation
* Ticket #10: Splash screen
* Ticket #11: Fixed Winsnap enable/disable
* Allow more than one file from the command line, or dragged from a file 
manager
* Some rough edges softened
* Czech translation updated, thanks to Pavel Fric
* Italian help page translated, thanks to Giovanni Mariani

Build requirements:

* C++11 compiler
* Qt5
* Drumstick libraries v2.3
* Uchardet v0.0.7
* CMake 3.14
* Pandoc

Copyright (C) 2021 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas  
License: GPL v3 or later

Project and Source Repositories  

https://sourceforge.net/p/dmidiplayer  

https://github.com/pedrolcl/dmidiplayer

Downloads

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/files/v1.5.0/