QmidiCtl A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast

What's QmidiCtl ?

QmidiCtl is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data 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).

QmidiCtl has been primarily designed for the Maemo enabled handheld devices, namely the Nokia N900 and also being promoted to the Maemo Package repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl may still be found effective as a regular desktop application as well.

QmidiCtl is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl

Weblog: http://www.rncbc.org

See also: QmidiNet - A MIDI network gateway via UDP/IP multicast

Screenshots

Requirements

The software requirements for build and runtime are listed as follows:

Mandatory:

• Qt 4 (core, gui), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization
  http://qt-project.org/

Downloads

Latest release

2010-09-03 - Second public release.
qmidictl-0.1.0.tar.gz

• Standard desktop icon fixing (Fremantle/Hildon).
• MIDI note and controller names (GM) added.
• Logarithmic scale configure option added.
• Message box title confidence fix (whatever it be:)
• MIDI controller assignment, any other than mostly MMC, is now user configurable for all widgets, buttons, sliders and knobs, trough the novel "Configure..." menu item. (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Dropped the "About Qt..." menu item.
• Use standard dialog buttons as provided by QDialogButtonBox.
• Attempt to comply with maemo.org extras-testing promotion.

Previous and older releases, including the change log, are also available here. You may also check out from the latest bleeding edge development source tree, using Subversion.

You can browse all files available for download, including binary packages, at QmidiCtl Files on SourceForge.net.

Installation

The installation procedure follows the standard for source distributions. In the extracted source directory, just do:

./configure [--prefix=prefix]
make

and optionally as root:

make install

This procedure will end installing the following couple of files:

• prefix/bin/qmidictl
• prefix/share/applications/hildon/qmidictl.desktop
• prefix/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/hildon/qmidictl.png

Just launch prefix/bin/qmidictl and you're off (hopefully). Note that the default installation path prefix is /usr/local.

Configuration

QmidiCtl holds its settings and configuration state per user, in a file located as $HOME/.config/rncbc.org/QmidiCtl.conf. Normally, there's no need to edit this file, as it is recreated and rewritten everytime qmidictl is run.

Bugs

Plenty still, after all this is alpha software ;)

Support

QmidiCtl 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.

You can also find timely and closer contact information on my personal web site.

Enjoy.

rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc dot org