On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - drumstick-smfplayer: with GUI, simple, interactive. Drag and drop from file > managers. > Players based on the Drumstick libraries: > - kmid2: GUI, interactive, drag and drop from file managers, play lists, > pianola display. I strongly recommend drumstick-smfplayer and kmid2. What is especially nice is that once drumstick-smfplayer or kmid2 are installed, they are added to the list of programs for playing back MIME-type of MIDI: now you can click a MIDI link in your web-browser of 'dolphin' filebrowser, and hear sounds immediately, w/o any extra setup or connections. (Now listening to results of "wget -r -l0 --accept=zip http://www.megatrade.ru/Russian/Midi.html"; :-) ). Furthermore, they can both be setup to always connect to a particular MIDI port -- in my case, a http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net/ port routing the MIDI to the computer housing my Yamaha db60xg (NEC xr-385) . For those without hardware MIDI players, kmid2 also hooks up your fluidsynth (Settings->Configure Kmid->Softsynth->Fluidsynth) and plays that sofsynth through the appropriate ALSA port. Kmid2 has the added advantage of allowing MIDI volume adjustment: many XG midi files on the net end up with clipped output unless the overall volume is reduced (might be a particular issue w/ using db60xg (NEC xr-385) with my crap $5.00 Dynex dx-sc51 soundcard that needs a -10db "pad" soldered to the waveblaster header that mounts the synth-card). Even better, kmid2 "remembers" the last volume level set on a per-MIDI file basis, so that the next time you play it, you don't need to adjust the volume. Finally, I'm particularly impressed with Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas' fast turn-around time on bug-fixing, along with Fedora packager Kevin Kofler: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597354 ... Unfortunately, in testing out the bugfixed kmid2/drumstick, I discovered a bug in Kmid2 that is caused by having too many MIDI files in a single directory (500+): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240391 ( https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/drumstick-0.3.1-2.fc12,kmid2-2.3.0-1.fc12 ) Thanks for the great software! Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: Regarding hardware MIDI cards: http://www.ssstjy.com/wenzhang/wz8-midcard10.htm :-) (google-translate can be downright hilarious). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
