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Screenshots gallery Getting started MIDI conceptsMIDI is an industry standard to connect musical instruments. It is based on transmitting the actionsperformed by a musician playing some instrument to another different instrument.

Musicalinstruments enabled with MIDI interfaces typically have two DIN sockets labeled MIDI IN andMIDI OUT. Sometimes there is a third socket labeled MIDI THRU.

To connect a MIDIinstrument to another one, you need a MIDI cable attached to the MIDI OUT socket of thesending instrument, and to the MIDI IN of the receiving one. You can find more information andtutorials like allaround the Net.There are also hardware MIDI interfaces for computers, providing MIDI IN and OUT ports,where you can attach MIDI cables to communicate the computer with external MIDIinstruments. Without needing hardware interfaces, the computer can also use MIDIsoftware. An example is VMPK, which provides MIDI IN and OUT ports. You can attach virtualMIDI cables to the VMPK's ports, to connect the program to other programs or to thecomputer's physical MIDI interface ports. More details about this coming later.You usually want to connect the MIDI output from VMPK to the input of some synthesizerwhich transforms MIDI into sound. Another common destination for the connection wouldbe a MIDI monitor that translates MIDI events into readable text.

This will help you tounderstand what kind of information is transmitted using the MIDI protocol. In Linux you cantry and in Windows.VMPK doesn't produce any sound.

You need a MIDI software synthesizer to hear the played notes.I recommend you to try,a graphical front-end to. In Windows you canalso use the 'Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth' that comes with all Windows versions, or a betteralternative like.Of course, an external MIDI hardware synth would be an even better approach. Keyboard maps and instrument definitionsVMPK can help you to change sounds in your MIDI synthesizer, but only if you provide adefinition for the synthesizer sounds first. The definitions are text files with the.INSextension, and the same format used by(Linux), and (Windows).When you start VMPK the first time, you should open the Preferences dialog and choose a definitionfile, and then select the instrument name among those provided by the definitions file. There should be oneinstrument definitions file installed in the VMPK's data directory (typically '/usr/share/vmpk' inLinux, and 'C:Program FilesVMPK' in Windows) named 'gmgsxg.ins', containing definitionsfor the General MIDI, Roland GS and Yamaha XG standards. It is a very simple format, andyou can use any text editor to look, change, and create a new one. You can find a library ofinstruments definitions at the.Since the release 0.2.5 you can also import Sound Font files (in.SF2 or DLS formats) asinstruments definitions, using a dialog available at menu File-Import SoundFont.Another customization that you may want to tweak is the keyboard mapping.

The defaultlayout maps about two and half octaves for the QWERTY alphanumeric keyboard, but thereare some more definitions in the data directory, adapted for other international layouts. Youcan even define your own mapping using a dialog box available in the Edit-Keyboard map menu.There are also options to load and save the maps as XML files.

The last loaded map will beremembered the next time you start VMPK. In fact, all your preferences, selected MIDI bankand program, and the controller values will be saved on exit, and restored when you restartVMPK the next time. MIDI connections and virtual MIDI cablesIn Windows, VMPK connects automatically to the default MIDI output, which is usually the'Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth', included in all Windows versions. This MIDI synthesizer producesvery poor quality sound, and suffers of high latency. A better (and free) alternative is.To connect hardware MIDI devices you need physical MIDI cables. To connect MIDI softwareyou need virtual cables. In Windows you can use some virtual MIDI cable software, like, Maple,or.MIDI Yoke setup process will install the driver and a control panel applet to change the numberof MIDI ports that will be available (you need to restart the computer after changing this setting).MIDI Yoke works sending every MIDI event written to an OUT port to the corresponding IN port.For instance, VMPK can connect the output to the port 1, and another program likecan read the same events from the port 1.Using you can add more routes betweenMIDI Yoke ports and other system MIDI ports.

This program also provides other interestingfunctionalities, like a MIDI file player. You can listen the songs played in a MIDI Synth and atthe same time see the played notes (only one channel at a time) in VMPK. To do so, you can use the'Routes' window in MIDIOX to connect the input port 1 to the Windows Synth port. Also, configurethe player's MIDI port to send to MIDI Yoke 1. And configure VMPK Input port to read from MIDI Yoke 1.The player will send the events to the out port 1, which will be routed to both the input port 1and at the same time to the synth port.In Linux, you have sequencer to provide thevirtual cables. The ports are dynamically created when you start a program, so there is not afixed number of them like in MIDI Yoke.The command line utility 'aconnect' allows to connect and disconnect the virtual MIDI cablesbetween any ports, being hardware interfaces or applications.

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A nice GUI utility for doing thesame is. The main purpose of thisprogram is to control the Jack daemon (start, stop and monitor the state). Jack provides virtualaudio cables to connect your sound card ports and audio programs, in a similar way to the MIDIvirtual cables, but for digital audio data. QJackCtl connections in Linux Frequently Asked Questions How to display 88 keys?Since VMPK 0.6.0 you can use the settings dialog to choose this exact number of keys.

There is no soundVMPK doesn't produce any sound by itself. You need a MIDI synthesizer, and please read the documentation again. Some keys are silentWhen you select channel 10 on a standard MIDI synth, it plays percussion sounds assigned to many keys but not to all of them. On melodic channels (not channel 10) you can select patches with a limited range of notes. This is known in music as. Patch names don't match the real soundsYou need to provide an.INS file describing exactly your synthesizer's sound set or soundfont.

The included file (gmgsxg.ins) contains definitions for only standard GM, GS and XG instruments. If your MIDI synth doesn't match exactly any of them, you need to get another.INS file, or create it yourself. Syntax of the Instrument Definition (.INS) files?One explanation of the INS format is Can I convert my Instrument Definition for vkeybd into an.INS file?Sure. Use the AWK script 'txt2ins.awk'. You can even use the utility sftovkb from vkeybd to create an.INS file from any SF2 soundfont, but there is also a function to import the instrument names from SF2 and DLS files in VMPK.$ sftovkb SF2NAME.sf2 sort -n -k1,1 -k2,2 SF2NAME.txt$ awk -f txt2ins.awk SF2NAME.txt SF2NAME.insYou can find the AWK script 'txt2ins.awk' installed in the VMPK's data directory.

DownloadYou can find the latest sources, Windows, and Mac OSX packages at. Windows 64bit:(29.3 MB). Windows 32bit:(25.8 MB). macOS X Intel 64bit:(11.2 MB). Linux (64 bit):(25.5 MB). C Sources:(438 kB)If you distribute VMPK packages for any distro, please drop me an email and I will add a link to your site here.

Installation from sourcesDownload the sources from.Unpack the sources in your home directory, and change to the unpacked dir.$ cd vmpk-x.y.zYou can choose between CMake and Qmake to prepare the build system, but qmake isintended only for testing and development.$ cmake.or$ ccmake.or$ qmakeAfter that, compile the program:$ makeIf the program has been compiled sucessfully, you can install it:$ sudo make installRequirementsIn order to successfully build and use VMPK, you need Qt 5.1 or newer.(install the -devel package for your system, or from qt-project.orgis required for all platforms. It uses ALSA sequencer in Linux,WinMM in Windows and CoreMIDI in Mac OSX, which are the native MIDI systems in each supported platform.The build system is based on.You need also the. MinGW is a.Optionally, you can buid a Windows setup program using. Notes for windows usersTo compile the sources in Windows, you need to download either the.bz2 or.gzarchive and uncompress it using any utility that supports the format, like.To configure the sources, you need qmake (from Qt5) or CMake.

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You need to setthe PATH including the directories for Qt5 binaries, MinGW binaries, and alsoCMake binaries. The program CMakeSetup.exe is the graphic version of CMake forWindows.For some hints on using the program in Windows, please see. Notes for Mac OSX usersYou can find a precompiled universal app bundle, including Qt5 runtime libraries,at the. If you prefer to install from sources, CMake or Qmakecan be used to build the application bundle linked to the installed system libraries.You can use Qt5 either from qt-project.org or packages from.The build system is configured to create an universal binary (x86+ppc) into anapp bundle. You need the Apple development tools and frameworks, as wellas.To compile VMPK using Makefiles, generated by qmake:$ qmake vmpk.pro -spec macx-g$ makeoptionally:$ macdeployqt build/vmpk.appTo compile using Makefiles, generated by CMake:$ cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles'.$ makeTo create Xcode project files:$ qmake vmpk.pro -spec macx-xcodeor$ cmake -G Xcode.If you need something to produce noise, maybe you want to take a look to. ForMIDI routing, there is also.Notes for packagers and advanced usersYou can ask the compiler for some optimisation when building the program.There are two ways: first, using a predefined build type.$ cmake.DCMAKEBUILDTYPE=ReleaseThe CMake 'Release' type uses the compiler flags: '-O3 -DNDEBUG'.

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Otherpredefined build types are 'Debug', 'RelWithDebInfo', and 'MinSizeRel'.The second way is to choose the compiler flags yourself.$ export CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -DNDEBUG'$ cmake.You need to find the better CXXFLAGS for your own system.If you want to install the program at some place other than the default(/usr/local) use the following CMake option:$ cmake.DCMAKEINSTALLPREFIX=/usrAcknowledgementsIn addition to the aforementioned tools, VMPK uses work from the followingopen source projects. from, by Rui Nuno CapelaInstrument definition data classes. by Theresa Knott. This page uses the free template by Lee Baillie. This page uses by Lokesh DhakarThank you very much!