1<html> 2<head> 3<title>Haiku MIDI Player</title> 4</head> 5<body> 6 7<h1>Haiku MIDI Player 1.0.0 beta</h1> 8 9<p>This is a simple application to play MIDI songs.</p> 10 11<p>To play a MIDI song, you can:</p> 12 13<ul> 14<li>double-click it, or</li> 15<li>drag it on the MidiPlayer icon, or</li> 16<li>drag it into the MidiPlayer window, or</li> 17<li>type "MidiPlayer song.mid" in Terminal.</li> 18</ul> 19 20<p>Hopefully, most of the options will be obvious, although Live Input may require a few lines of explanation.</p> 21 22<p>The <b>Live Input</b> feature enables you to attach other applications to the Haiku software synthesizer, for example a virtual MIDI keyboard. MidiPlayer looks at the MIDI roster for compatible producer endpoints. If none are found, Live Input is not available.</p> 23 24<h3>Differences with the BeOS R5 MidiPlayer:</h3> 25 26<ul> 27<li>User interface looks slightly different (better?)</li> 28<li>Play and Stop are now one and the same button.</li> 29<li>There is no Open File... function.</li> 30<li>You cannot set the Quality of the sound (always 44100 Hz).</li> 31<li>While the song fades out, the scope temporarily freezes; the R5 MidiPlayer kept repainting during the fade-out (which, admittedly, looks better). At one point, the Haiku MidiPlayer did that too but the code made my head hurt, so I pulled it out again :-)</li> 32</ul> 33 34<p>If people really <i>really</i> want these missing features, then feel free to add them :-)</p> 35 36</body> 37</html> 38