AMIDI-Plug 0.7

AMIDI-Plug is a MIDI plugin for XMMS / BMP / Audacious. Amidi-Plug processes MIDI files and sends their events to one or more ALSA sequencer client ports. Any hardware or software synthesizer, as it provides ALSA sequencer ports can be used to play MIDI-Amidi Plug.Playback is fully functional: play, stop, search, pause, song information are An example available.In, Amidi-Plug can send MIDI to the emu10k1 hardware synth or software synths such as timidity and fluidsynth.AMIDI-Plug supports MIDI files in SMF (standard midi file) format type 0 and type 1 and the RIFF MIDI containing SMF 0 and 1.Installation: Installation is pretty straighforward: configure - with-player = PLAYER make installwhere Player is one between xmms, bmp or audacious.Other configuration Options are available as - prefix to install in a different location. Usage - Help with list of all available configuration options.Dependecies vary with the player selected: ALSA libraries are always required; GTK + 2.x required for Bold and BMP; GTK + 1.x required for XMMS, of course, headers and libraries that come with the players selected are required too.Usage: The first time the player is launched with Plug-Amidi installed, it will try to automatically detect and use some ALSA sequencer ports, more precisely , is looking for people hardware synthesizer wavetable. Of course, these may not be available on some sound cards, so it's a good idea to check (and modify if necessary) the selected ports in the preferences Dialog.In the same dialog there is a selector control mixer. Since Amidi-Plug sends MIDI events directly to the ALSA sequencer ports, it does not effect or plugin player output. Thus, the mixer control selected in the preferences dialog is used to adjust the volume during playback.Once these values are Defined, MIDI files can be picked up and played like any other file type. The reading is fully functional: play, stop, search, pause, song information are available.What's new in this version: · This version introduces some new playback options: a Transpose to play MIDI files in tones different drum and percussion gear lever change. • It uses Audacious VFS API to load.