This is the first public release of Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. It is a MIDI event 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. VMPK has been tested in Linux and Windows, but maybe you can build it also in Mac OSX and SGI Irix. If you can compile and test the program in those systems, please drop me a mail. The Virtual Keyboard by Takashi Iway (vkeybd) has been the inspiration for this one. It is a wonderful piece of software and has served us well for many years. Thanks! VMPK is written in C++ using two free and platform independent frameworks: Qt4 (4.3 or newer is needed) and RtMIDI for MIDI input/output. It uses ALSA sequencer in Linux, WinMM in Windows and CoreMIDI in Mac OSX, which are the native MIDI systems in each supported platform. See: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/ The alphanumeric keyboard mapping can be configured from inside the program using the GUI interface, and the settings are stored in XML files. Some maps for Spanish, German and French keyboard layouts are provided. VMPK can send program changes and controllers to a MIDI synth. The definitions for different standards and devices can be provided as .INS files, the same format used by Qtractor, TSE3, Cakewalk and Sonar. This software is in a very early alpha stage. Please feel free to contact me to ask questions, report bugs, and propose new features. You can use the tracking system at SourceForge project site. Copyright (C) 2008, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 Web site: http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Download sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.1.0.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.1.0.tar.gz Download openSUSE RPM packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro