WildMIDI is a free open-source software synthesizer which converts

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note data into an audio signal using

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sound patches without need for a GUS patch-compatible soundcard. WildMIDI, whose aim is to be as small as possible and easily portable, started in December 2001, can act as a virtual MIDI device, capable of receiving MIDI data from any program and transforming it into audio on-the-fly. It is the standard MIDI renderer for the

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framework.

Features

WildMIDI consists of two parts, the

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which other applications can link against and a

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(CLI)

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used to show off the features of the library itself.

Library features

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MIDI file support (.RIF) * Playback of

format 0, 1 and 2 support (.MID) * Playback of MIDI-likes: HMI, HMP, MUS and XMI * Cross Platform: Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD, *DOS, etc. * Thread safe * PCM stream output *

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file output * Linear and

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re-sampling * Final output

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engine * Timidity.cfg compatibility

Player features

* OSS output on Linux/UNIX * ALSA output on Linux *

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output on Windows *

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output on all supported platforms *

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output under DOS *

output to filesystem

History

WildMIDI was originally conceived in December 2001 as an experiment to see if MIDI files could be played using the same samples as existing software but with less overhead. The first release of the CLI player was in 2002 and thanks to the support of the Quakeforge developers, it was later split into a library and player. In 2003, Quakeforge started using the library in their project. The first official release of WildMIDI was in 2004. After many updates, Chris Ison stopped development in February 2012 with version 0.2.3.5 and has been missing since then. WildMIDI was forked in 2013 by Bret Curtis who now maintains the project. A re-factored WildMIDI was released as version 0.3.0 in 2014. The next release, 0.4.0 was released in July 2016 which added additional functionality such as support for MIDI-like file formats, their conversions to MIDI and additional APIs.

Used in projects

* QuakeForge *

Qmmp qmmp (for ''Qt-based MultiMedia Player'') is a free and open-source cross-platform audio player that is similar to Winamp. It is written in C++ using the Qt widget toolkit for the user interface. It officially supports the operating systems Lin ...

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* Rosa Media Player * ThirdEye * XLEngine: DaggerXL * OpenTESArena https://github.com/afritz1/OpenTESArena at

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References

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External links

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WildMIDI package
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