The K Desktop Environment

The KMidi Handbook

Version 1.03.00
Last updated: 16/12/2000

Bernd Johannes Wuebben

wuebben@kde.org

Greg Lee

lee@hawaii.edu

KMidi plays midi files using instrument patches. It does in software what a soundcard like the GUS (Gravis UltraSound) or Sound Blaster AWE does in hardware.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Usage
2.1. Getting Started
2.2. Playlists
2.3. Midi file names
2.4. Configuring
2.5. Patchsets
2.6. Polyphony
2.7. Effects
2.8. Command Line Options
3. Questions and Answers
3.1. Where to get a full patch set?
4. Design
4.1. Processes
4.2. Synthesis Model
4.3. Midi Implementation
4.4. Volume
4.5. Computation Issues
4.6. Memory Issues
5. Credits
6. Copyright
A. Installation
A.1. How to obtain KMidi
A.2. Requirements
A.3. Compilation and installation
A.4. Where to get a full set of patches?
A.4.1. Patch set installation
A.4.2. Miscellaneous