QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast ------------------------------------------------------ QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA Sequencer [2] and/or JACK MIDI [3]) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast (http://llg.cubic.org/tools) and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows (http://nerds.de). Website: http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Weblog: http://www.rncbc.org QmidiNet is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [4] version 2 or later. Requirements ------------ The software requirements for build and runtime are listed as follows: Mandatory: [1] Qt4 (core, gui), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization http://qt.nokia.com/products/ [2] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ Optional (opted-in at build time): [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ Installation ------------ The installation procedure follows the standard for source distributions. Unpack the tarball and in the extracted source directory: ./configure [--prefix=/usr/local] make and optionally as root: make install This procedure will end installing the following couple of files: ${prefix}/bin/qmidinet ${prefix}/share/applications/qmidinet.desktop ${prefix}/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qmidinet.png Just launch ${prefix}/bin/qmidinet and you're off (hopefully). Note that the default installation path ${prefix} is /usr/local. If you're checking out from Subversion (SVN), you'll have to prepare the configure script just before you proceed with the above instructions: make -f Makefile.svn Configuration ------------- QmidiNet holds its settings and configuration state per user, in a file located as $HOME/.config/rncbc.org/QmidiNet.conf . Normally, there's no need to edit this file, as it is recreated and rewritten everytime qmidinet is run. Bugs ---- Plenty still, after all this is alpha software ;) Support ------- QmidiNet is open source free software. For bug reports, feature requests, discussion forums, mailling lists, or any other matter related to the development of this piece of software, please use the Sourceforge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet). You can also find timely and closer contact information on my personal web site (http://www.rncbc.org). References ---------- [1] Qt4 (core, gui), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization http://qt.nokia.com/products/ [2] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [4] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Enjoy. rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org