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QmidiCtl is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multi-cast. It has been designed primarily for the Maemo enabled handheld devices, namely the Nokia N900. In its current development state, which is obviously alpha as of this writing, it puts a mini multi-track recording control surface on your hands and on the go, so to speak. MMC is the feature and yours truly Qtractor the target. However, any other MMC enabled DAW may be considered.

However nothing of this would be possible without this little thing that gets also here its release announcement: QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA Sequencer) over the network, using UDP/IP multi-cast. Fundamentally inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows, it's a little tiny application that sits as an icon on your system tray and exposes one or more ALSA Sequencer client ports which open the way for a MIDI network mesh. Pretty neat if you think wireless and not necessarily because of QmidiCtl.

Alas, you can transform any Linux/ALSA computer (or Windows/ipMIDI enabled one, if you dare to) into a MIDI-over-IP inter-connected node.

Be free, without cables :)

Websites:

http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net
http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net

Project pages:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet

Downloads:

  • source tarballs:
    qmidictl-0.0.1.tar.gz
    qmidinet-0.0.1.tar.gz
  • source package (openSUSE 11.2):
    qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.src.rpm
    qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.src.rpm
  • binary packages (openSUSE 11.2):
    qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.i586.rpm
    qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.x86_64.rpm
    qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.i586.rpm
    qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.x86_64.rpm
  • binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10):
    qmidictl_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_i386.deb
    qmidictl_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_amd64.deb
    qmidinet_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_i386.deb
    qmidinet_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_amd64.deb
  • binary packages (Maemo 5):
    qmidictl_0.0.1-1_armel.deb
  • Weblog (upstream support):

    http://www.rncbc.org

    License:

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

    Cheers && Enjoy