[LAA] Drusmtick, VMPK and dmidiplayer releases

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas pedro.lopez.cabanillas at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 23:29:29 CEST 2021


Drumstick libraries
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Drumstick is a set of MIDI libraries using C++/Qt5 idioms and style. 
Includes a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface: ALSA 
sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. A 
complementary library provides classes for processing SMF (Standard MIDI 
files: .MID/.KAR), and Cakewalk (.WRK) file formats. A multiplatform 
realtime MIDI I/O library and a GUI Widgets libraries are also provided for 
Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.

Changes in v2.3.0:

* Ticket #31: fallback drivers for Drumstick::RT
    * Two new methods in class BackendManager
	* MIDIInput* findInput(QString name)
	* MIDIOutput* findOutput(QString name)
    * They return either the requested backend or another suitable 
replacement.
* New CMake build options: USE_PULSEAUDIO, USE_FLUIDSYNTH, USE_NETWORK, all 
enabled by default.
* Fixed incomplete Drumstick::RT ALSA output plugin.
* Drumstick::Widgets. Fixed PianoKeybd touchscreen events: if a pressure 
amount is not provided by the device, the default MIDI velocity is used. 
Otherwise, the velocity is scaled by the applied pressure.

Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: CMake 3.14 and Qt 5.7

Copyright (C) 2009-2021, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v3 or later

Project web site
https://sourceforge.net/p/drumstick

Online documentation
https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/

Downloads
https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/2.3.0/

Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player 
=================================

Drumstick 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 v1.4.0:

* ticket #1: Playback positioning
    * Replaced the progress bar by a slider, so the user can change the 
play position
    * Added forward/backward actions to advance or go back one bar
    * Added a Jump action to move the play position to some arbitrary bar
* ticket #2: Playlist repetition options: Nothing, Last Song, Whole 
Playlist
* ticket #8: (Lyrics text) Copy to clipboard, Save to File, Print
* ticket #9: (after Drumstick ticket #31) Fallback output drivers
* Playlist function shuffle
* Toolbar buttons customizing dialog
* preliminary support for building with Qt6 (experimental)
* Czech translation updated, thanks to Pavel Fric

Build requirements:

* C++11 compiler
* Qt5
* Drumstick libraries v2.3
* Uchardet v0.0.7
* CMake 3.14
* Pandoc for optionally building the man page

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/v1.4.0/

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (VMPK) 0.8.4
==================================

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It 
doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI 
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can 
use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can 
use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from 
another instrument or MIDI file player.

Changes in v0.8.4

* Applied drumstick ticket #31: fallback MIDI drivers
* Experimental support for building with Qt6
* Requires: drumstick-2.3.0

Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms:

* CMake 3.14
* Qt 5.7 
* Drumstick 2.3

Please use the mailing list <vmpk-devel at lists.sourceforge.net> for 
questions and comments. Thanks.

Copyright (C) 2008-2021, Pedro López-Cabanillas and others  
License: GPL v3

More info  
  http://vmpk.sourceforge.net

Downloads  
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/0.8.4/


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