VirtualTones

MIDI keyboard interface.

About

This program was written by James Bunton jamesbunton@delx.net.au
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2
(see COPYING.txt for more details)

This program was written for Julieanne.. :-)
Hope you like your Christmas present!

If you have any feature requests, bug reports, etc, send them to me.
Thanks and enjoy..

Update

This was originally written back in in 2003 for Qt 2.3. I've recently
updated it to work with modern Linux.

Instructions

If you are using Windows 95 or later, you need a MIDI device set up.
If running VirtualTones.exe does not work, go to
Start->Control Panel->Multimedia and select a synthesiser.

If you are using Linux, make sure you have a sequencer set up.
Timidity++ is a good one, start it up in ALSA client mode:

timidity -iA -Os -c /etc/timidity++/timidity-freepats.cfg

Compiling

cd virtualtones
qmake
make

Todo

• 'Clean' the MIDI files so that notes are saved as with the exact
  lengths of crotchets, quavers, etc. This means opening the file in a
  notation editor, such as Finale or Rosegarden would give better
  results.

Bugs

• It is impossible to push certain combinations of keys.
  (A problem with the OS, or keyboard hardware?)

• Contrabass interface is a bit weird, but works mostly ok

• Sizes of pixmaps is off