[fluid-dev] Karaoke application

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

Hi,

I've not yet announced here my little KDE application for playing MIDI/karaoke 
songs. It is not very mature (release 0.2 will be published next week) but it 
is already usable. Some links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmmB1svetwQ
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KMid2?content=116404
http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2

The current backend is based on the ALSA sequencer, with self made SMF parse 
and playback features. It is for Linux only, using either external MIDI 
synths, or sound cards with hw synths like Audigy/SB Live, or soft-synths. 
For users' convenience, I've included the ability of launching fluidsynth or 
timidity as child processes.

I've planned a future backend based on libfluidsynth directly, with SMF 
parsing and song playback provided by libfluidsynth. This backend shall be 
multiplatform, tightly linked to libfluidsynth (in opposition to the current 
one that is only loosely tied). But this would require some additional 
features to be added to fluidsynth...

Regards,
Pedro