On Sunday 31 August 2008 12:26:39 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > 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 Very nice. However, I have seen these work much better. Pressing two keys simultaneously yields a considerable delay between the two notes. So you might check how you are getting the keys--might need a lower level call? I have also seen things thing dual-manual. One is z ... like you have your default layout. The second is from q .... Now one sets two voices :-) The two programs like this I have used before: If you have ever seen the good old (very old) vpiano windows applet? No voices but the keyboard works very nicely. On the linux side, there is jack-keyboard which has two manuals and everything you have and no latency. This uses jack-midi. (Jack-midi seems to disable non- jack-midi programs right now so yours might be a better alternative!) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
