WildMIDI

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WildMIDI
Developer(s) Chris Ison, Bret Curtis and others
Stable release 0.3.1[1] / January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20)
Development status Active
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Software synthesizer
License GNU Lesser General Public License (version 3 or later)
Website WildMIDI

WildMIDI is a free open source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatible soundcard. WildMIDI, whose aim is to be as small as possible and easily portable,[2] started in December 2001,[3] 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 GStreamer framework.[4]

Features

WildMIDI consists of two parts, the library which other applications can link against and a command-line (CLI) player used to show off the features of the library itself.[5]

Library features

  • RIFF MIDI file support (.RIF)
  • MIDI format 0 and 1 support (.MID)
  • Cross Platform: Linux, Windows, OSX, FreeBSD, etc.
  • Thread safe
  • WAV file output
  • Linear and Gaussian re-sampling
  • Final output reverb engine
  • Timidity.cfg compatibility

Player features

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 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.[6]

Used in projects

Usage comparison

Software synthesizer CPU utilization[14]
Software synth average CPU usage
WildMIDI 6
FluidSynth + pulseaudio 68.5
Timidity + pulseaudio (with GUS or SF2 soundfonts) 16
JavaSound 56
GStreamer 17.5

Install base comparison

Debian's popularity contest statistics as of 22 January 2014 [15][16][17]
MIDI library Installed % Rank
libwildmidi1 86954 53.43% 674
libfluidsynth1 22273 13.69% 2085
timidity 6845 4.21% 4009

See also

References

  1. ↑ WildMIDI at GitHub
  2. ↑ "MIDI Players on Linux"
  3. ↑ WildMIDI – a bit of history
  4. ↑ "GStreamer, MIDI (and Ubuntu)"
  5. ↑ WildMIDI – features
  6. ↑ WildMIDI – a bit of history
  7. ↑ QuakeForge – Sound System
  8. ↑ GStreamer at GStreamer
  9. ↑ Qmmp at GoogleCode
  10. ↑ Music Player Daemon at Debian
  11. ↑ Rosa Media Player
  12. ↑ ThirdEye – AESOP Replacement Engine
  13. ↑ OpenPandora Packages at OpenPandora
  14. ↑ Software Synth Comparison, 4 January, 2014
  15. ↑ WildMIDI at Debian
  16. ↑ FluidSynth at Debian
  17. ↑ TiMidity at Debian

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