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Re: MIDI
by Matthias Kretz on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @04:17

MIDI is orthogonal to Phonon. The "Desktop" doesn't have any need for MIDI. MIDI-Applications could use Phonon for audio (PCM) stuff, but they probably want a different lib or do it all themselves.

I'm not saying you cannot make use of MIDI in general for the desktop, but it's such a special case that for now it's ignored completely in Phonon.

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Re: MIDI
by Ben on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @04:27

Thats a shame, I play quite a few MIDIs and would have liked to control the volume inside phonon with everything else.

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Re: MIDI
by Matthias Kretz on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @06:15

Two possiblities:
- hardware synth: nothing for Phonon, you have to use the hardware mixer to control the volumes
- software synth: either the software synth provides the same dbus interface as Phonon applications do, or it uses Phonon to do the audio output. The former is not standardized yet. The latter is still on the todo list.

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Re: MIDI
by Ljubomir on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @04:47

I tend to disagree. Linux desktop is still waiting for decent karaoke players and Guitar Pro clones. This is "fun stuff", and its important.

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Re: MIDI
by Johann Ollivier Lapeyre on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @05:23

Did you tried ktabedit, a good fork from the un-maintained kguitart?

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Re: MIDI
by Matthias Kretz on Wednesday 07/Feb/2007, @06:53

You have to consider that so far I've been designing and implementing Phonon mostly on my own. I should be learning for Uni instead. There's no way I can provide API for MIDI for KDE 4.0. I agree that it might make sense to have a Qt-style MIDI API, but it won't be me doing that.

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Re: MIDI
by Davide Ferrari on Tuesday 13/Feb/2007, @04:13

MIDI is not general purpose, it's indeed a particulr use-case (amateur musicians in particular and a few others). So, I find perfectly normal a lower priority.

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