please test MIDI player in F 2.0
Wilbert Berendsen
Frescobaldi 2.0 now has a built-in MIDI player. Everybody is invited to
test it.
You need PortMIDI to be installed. And it is recommended to have a
Python binding to PortMIDI, e.g. pyPortMidi or pygame, which also
contains a binding.
Frescobaldi first tries 'pyportmidi._pyportmidi', then 'pypm', then
'pygame.pypm' (but without importing anything else from pygame) eand
finally it tries to find the PortMIDI DLL and use it via ctypes.
If MIDI works, you can select an output port in the settings, and then
play a MIDI file. If MIDI does not work, no output ports are visible in
the settings and you won't hear the music, although the player plays as
well. (Or some error message occurs, there is not many error checking
right now).
Use:
git clone git://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi.git
to get the latest Frescobaldi code.
Enable the MIDI player using Tools->MIDI player
Please test and hopefully enjoy!
Wilbert
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Wilbert Berendsen
(http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl)
Brett McCoy
> Frescobaldi 2.0 now has a built-in MIDI player. Everybody is invited to
> test it.
>
> You need PortMIDI to be installed. And it is recommended to have a
> Python binding to PortMIDI, e.g. pyPortMidi or pygame, which also
> contains a binding.
So this is different than what was required in older Frescobaldi
(kmid2?), right?
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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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Wilbert Berendsen
Brett McCoy <idrag...@gmail.com> schreef:
> So this is different than what was required in older Frescobaldi
> (kmid2?), right?
Yes, this is completely different. In Frescobaldi 1, KMid was embedded
(which is a nice and capable midi player).
But as the embedding the KMid KPart requires KDE, this approach could
not be used for Frescobaldi 2.0.
So I built a MIDI player from the ground up, which uses the
cross-platform PortMIDI library to send MIDI messages to an output port.
To actually hear something there should be a MIDI synthesizer on your
system (either a hardware unit or a software synthesizer running such
as Timidity, Fluidsynth or SimpleSynth (Mac)).
Federico Bruni
> Frescobaldi 2.0 now has a built-in MIDI player. Everybody is invited to
> test it.
>
Wow, I was looking forward to it.
Thanks!
> You need PortMIDI to be installed. And it is recommended to have a
> Python binding to PortMIDI, e.g. pyPortMidi or pygame, which also
> contains a binding.
On Debian Wheezy I had to install these two packages:
libportmidi0 python-pypm
schef
flup
I installed portmidi and fluidsynth (using macports). I also
downloaded Qsynth, a gui for fluidsynth built using Qt.
Here are the settings I used to make it work :
Midi Driver : CoreMidi
Audio Driver : Coreaudio
Audio Device : default
Soundfonts : I choosed the soundfonts included in the Musescore bundle
(you have to navigate inside the Musescore bundle)
Until then, nothing worked. One more setting was necessary :
Under the "Audio" tab, Buffer Size must be at least 256 (was 16 by
default I think).
Philippe
rosea grammostola
How about midi record which was possible via rumor in Frescobaldi 1?
Regards,
\r
rosea grammostola
> Works here on Ubuntu 10.04, via qjackctl and qsynth.
All though it doesn't respect slurs.
Wilbert Berendsen
rosea grammostola <rosea.gr...@gmail.com> schreef:
> How about midi record which was possible via rumor in Frescobaldi 1?
later :-)