MIDI players

[bvdp]

Does anyone have a pointer for midi file players with a GUI that can
change the tempo while playing?

This is just for playing MIDIs from a computer to an external synth. I
don't need any of the soft synth stuff.

The only player I use with regularity is aplaymidi, but it's a command
line program.

I've tried kmid which would be fine but the output it generates is
"weird". I'm not sure what it is doing, but the sound is distorted. I've
tried to contact the author, but no success.

Also, there is the old playmidi, but I can't get it to output to the
alsa midi stuff. It appears to work, but no output.

That leaves me with stuff like rosegarden ... overkill to just play a
midi file.

I'd hate to start to write my own, just to find a decent one which works.

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[Stephen Doonan]

Bob van der Poel wrote:
> Does anyone have a pointer for midi file players with a GUI that can
> change the tempo while playing?


You could install timidity and an extra-interfaces package that includes
the gtk+ interface, then launch timidity with the interface option "g"
to specify the gtk+ interface--

timidity -ig

This interface allows you to speed or slow the tempo, but only in fixed
increments, not one-beat-per-minute at a time.

Steve
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[Guido Scholz]

Am Fri, 10. Oct 2008 um 20:31:09 -0700 schrieb Bob van der Poel:

Hi Bob,

> Does anyone have a pointer for midi file players with a GUI that can
> change the tempo while playing?

what about seq24?

Guido

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[Rui Nuno Capela]

Bob van der Poel wrote:
> Does anyone have a pointer for midi file players with a GUI that can
> change the tempo while playing?
>
> This is just for playing MIDIs from a computer to an external synth. I
> don't need any of the soft synth stuff.
>

qtractor ?

although it has no support for multi-tempo/key-signature map, yet, you
can change the tempo while playback is rolling. wanna try? :)

however it might be as overkill as rosegarden... :(

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[Stephen Doonan]

Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> qtractor ?
>
> although it has no support for multi-tempo/key-signature map, yet, you
> can change the tempo while playback is rolling. wanna try? :)
>
> however it might be as overkill as rosegarden... :(


That's why I didn't mention Qtractor: because Bob wants as simple a
program as possible and mentioned RoseGarden as overkill.

However, my suggestion (timidity) won't suit his needs either perhaps,
because there may be no way in timidity to send the MIDI data itself to
an external tone-generator or synth instead of converting the MIDI data
into WAV audio. Sorry, Bob. :-)

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[bvdp]

> That's why I didn't mention Qtractor: because Bob wants as simple a
> program as possible and mentioned RoseGarden as overkill.
>
> However, my suggestion (timidity) won't suit his needs either perhaps,
> because there may be no way in timidity to send the MIDI data itself to
> an external tone-generator or synth instead of converting the MIDI data
> into WAV audio. Sorry, Bob. :-)
>


Yeah, timidity doesn't support "real" synths. Qtractor, I don't know
about ... but, probably overkill.

Again, the kmid program would be just fine if it didn't distort to the
external synth. Anyone happen to have any ideas about why it might be
doing that?

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[Robert Vogel-4]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob van der Poel" <bob@...>
To: "Stephen Doonan" <stephen.doonan@...>
Cc: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [LAU] MIDI players

>
>> That's why I didn't mention Qtractor: because Bob wants as simple a
>> program as possible and mentioned RoseGarden as overkill.
>>
>> However, my suggestion (timidity) won't suit his needs either perhaps,
>> because there may be no way in timidity to send the MIDI data itself to
>> an external tone-generator or synth instead of converting the MIDI data
>> into WAV audio. Sorry, Bob. :-)
>>
>
>
> Yeah, timidity doesn't support "real" synths. Qtractor, I don't know
> about ... but, probably overkill.
>
> Again, the kmid program would be just fine if it didn't distort to the
> external synth. Anyone happen to have any ideas about why it might be
> doing that?
>
> --

My Debian distribution, for the most part, works pretty well and MMA also is
good.

When playing a midi file, I use Hydrogen for drums,  and one or more of the
synthesizers : ZynAddSubbFx, Qsynth, and others. Specific midi connections
are made using aconnectgui, and Rosegarden drives it all. This all works
well for me. I can record the results using Audacity, and even play keyboard
along with
it using a UX15 Yamaha USB keyboard connector.

It's not very simple, but I wouldn't go back. Actually I'm working on a
wxpython script that should make it a lot easier to operate.







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