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Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.4.0

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt user interface.
This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon".

Changes in v1.4.0

• Better compatibility with Qt < 6.3.0
• Fixes after Drumstick SF ticket 48:
• Report better SMF loading errors
• Don't believe SMF header about the number of tracks
• Fixed default language setting
• Build with Qt6 by default
• For Qt5 compatibility, the option USE_QT5 must be set
• C++ compiler and runtime requirements upgraded to C++17
• CMake requirement upgraded to 3.16
• Requires Drumstick >= 2.9.0... read more

Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.3.1

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt user interface.
This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon".

Changes in v1.3.1

• Help window fixed and simplified
• Replaced deprecated classes for better Qt6 compatibility
• Fixed the wrong icon in KDE+Wayland
• Requires Drumstick >= 2.7.0

Copyright (C) 2005-2022, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2 or later... read more

Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.3.0

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt user interface.
This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon".

Changes in v1.3.0

• New MIDI Thru on MIDI OUT connection option while recording
• Moved text encoding combo box from the settings dialog to the toolbar
• Allow to switch text encoding on the fly without reloading the song
• Fixed ticket #4: install failure with BUILD_DOCS=OFF
• Removed usage of deprecated signals and methods of drumstick-file classes
• Fixed row highlighting as playback feedback
• Fixed updating player state
• Fixed resetting position after playback finished
• Czech translation updated, by Pavel Fric
• Requires Drumstick >= 2.5... read more

Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.2.0

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt user interface.
This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon".

Changes in v1.2.0

• Czech translation updated, by Pavel Fric
• Revised and updated documentation system: using Pandoc to create man page and help documents
• New build options: USE_QT and BUILD_DOCS
• Qt6 compatibility fixes
• Save recording fixes
• Fixed mute track functionality
• Fixed event playback highlighting
• Support WRK file format markers, provided by Drumstick 2.5
• Desktop icon replaced... read more

Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.1.0

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt5 user interface.
This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon".

Changes in v1.1.0

• Removed warnings building with Qt >= 5.15
• MIDI texts/lyrics encoding defaults to Latin1
• New options: Qt Style, Dark mode, and internal icon theme based on breeze
• CMake version >= 3.14
• Added SCM Revision to the about box
• Fixed file info dialog (initial tempo, ...)
• Support for RIFF RMID (.rmi) file format... read more

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt5 user interface.
This program was previously known as "kmidimon".

Changes in release 1.0.0

• Dropped the KDE dependency. It only depends on Qt5 now
• Using Drumstick 2.0 for ALSA sequencer and File (MID/WRK) support
• Code and build systems modernization
• Czech translation updated, by Pavel Fric
• Japanese translation updated, by Oota Toshiya
• Spanish translation updated... read more

kmidimon is near to the release 1.0.0 (probably next Sunday Jan/10) and it is ready for translators to do his very appreciated job.

This will be the first release using the new name "Drumstick MIDI Monitor", with Qt 5 and Drumstick 2 dependencies only, not depending on KDE anymore. The executable and package names will remain the same: "kmidimon" as before.

That means the translations have been converted to the native ".qm" format of Qt, and can be translated using the Qt Linguist program. Here are the locations of the translation sources:... read more

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE4 user interface.

Changes in 0.7.4
* requires Drumstick >= 0.5
* load and play OVE files (Overture), contributed by Rui Fan
* option to request real-time priority on MIDI input thread
* option to (not) resize columns while recording
* better reporting of file loading errors
* revised universal sysex messages translation

Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2... read more

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE4 user interface.

Changes in 0.7.3
* using Drumstick-0.3
* load and play WRK files (cakewalk)
* open files from the command line
* drag and drop files into the main window
* fixed loop and stop time (last event time was not initialised)
* show the file name in the window title bar

Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2