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-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY kappname "&kmid;">
- <!ENTITY package "tdemultimedia">
- <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
- <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
-]>
-
-<book lang="&language;">
-
-<bookinfo>
-<title>The &kmid; Handbook</title>
-<authorgroup>
-<author>
-<firstname>Antonio</firstname>
-<surname>Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez</surname>
-<affiliation>
-<address><email>larrosa@kde.org</email></address>
-</affiliation>
-</author>
-<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
-</authorgroup>
-
-<copyright>
-<year>1999</year><year>2001</year>
-<holder>Antonio Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez</holder>
-</copyright>
-
-<date>2002-02-05</date>
-<releaseinfo>2.00.00</releaseinfo>
-
-<abstract>
-<para>
-&kmid; is a midi/karaoke multimedia player
-</para>
-</abstract>
-
-<keywordset>
-<keyword>KMid</keyword>
-<keyword>midi</keyword>
-<keyword>karaoke</keyword>
-<keyword>multimedia</keyword>
-<keyword>mid</keyword>
-<keyword>kar</keyword>
-<keyword>player</keyword>
-<keyword>music</keyword>
-<keyword>sound</keyword>
-<keyword>fm</keyword>
-<keyword>awe</keyword>
-<keyword>gus</keyword>
-</keywordset>
-</bookinfo>
-
-<chapter id="introduction">
-<title>Introduction</title>
-
-<para>
-&kmid; is &kde;'s midi and karaoke multimedia player. It features some
-features not found in any other &UNIX; midi player, such as realtime
-graphics and karaoke text highlighting among others.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-&kmid; has been reported to run on &Linux; and FreeBSD operating
-systems. It uses the <acronym>OSS</acronym> sound driver, so it should
-run on every system where &kde; and <acronym>OSS</acronym>
-compile. &kmid; also supports the &Linux; Ultrasound Project Driver ,
-which is required to get sound in <acronym>GUS</acronym> cards. I plan
-to support the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> driver as soon as it supports a
-sequencer device.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-&kmid; shows the lyrics in the screen changing its color at the same
-time the music is playing, so it is very easy to follow the tune of the
-songs.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Hope you find &kmid; as fun to use as I found developing it.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Antonio Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez <email>larrosa@kde.org</email>
-</para>
-
-<sect1 id="kmids-features">
-<title>&kmid;'s features</title>
-
-<para>
-These are some of &kmid;'s main features:
-</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-It has a very <emphasis>friendly user interface</emphasis> to display karaoke
-text with <emphasis>realtime highlighting</emphasis> of lyrics.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-It features a graphical view of what is being played on each midi channel, by
-highlighting the keys pressed in (virtual) keyboards.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-The most powerful <emphasis>Midi Mapper</emphasis> that you will ever find in
-any operating system.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis>Drag &amp; drop</emphasis> so you can drop in &kde; any midi file from a
-&konqueror; window.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-You can <emphasis>change the tempo</emphasis> of songs to play them slower or
-faster at your wish.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-It shows lights to follow the rhythm of the song.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis>Customizable fonts</emphasis> for karaoke text to be displayed.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Supports the two standards to introduce lyrics in midi files, that is, lyrics or
-text events (and guess which one a song uses automatically).
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Session Management. If a song is playing while you logout from &kde;, the next
-time you login, the same song will start playing.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis>Adjustable volume</emphasis> in realtime.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-It can play broken midi files which make other players core dump!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-It can open <emphasis>gzipped midi/karaoke files</emphasis> just as any other
-file.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Consumes approximately <emphasis>0.1&percnt;</emphasis> of my
-<acronym>CPU</acronym> (depends on the complexity of the song).
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Supports external midi synths, <acronym>AWE</acronym>, <acronym>FM</acronym> and
-<acronym>GUS</acronym> cards (for the latter you need the <acronym>LUP</acronym>
-driver and gusd installed).
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Runs on &Linux; and FreeBSD (maybe also other unices ...).
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</sect1>
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="general-usage">
-<title>General usage</title>
-
-<sect1 id="opening-songs">
-<title>Opening songs</title>
-
-<para>
-You can open a song several different ways.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-First, you can select <guimenuitem>Open...</guimenuitem> from the
-<guimenu>File</guimenu> menu, then you are presented with a standard
-open dialog, with which you can select the song you wish to open.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-You can drag a file from a &konqueror; window and drop it in the &kmid; window.
-You can also Drag &amp; Drop multiple songs at the same time.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you specify a song in the command line when running &kmid;, it will also be
-opened.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-And the final way is by selecting the song from the list of songs of the active
-collection.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="playing-songs">
-<title>Playing songs</title>
-
-<para>
-To play a song, first open it, and then press on the
-<guiicon>Play</guiicon> button of the toolbar, choose the
-<guimenuitem>Play</guimenuitem> entry of the <guimenu>Song</guimenu>
-menu, or just press the <keycap>Space</keycap> key.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Note that when you open a file using Drag &amp; Drop, &kmid; will start
-playing it automatically (if you drop more than one file, they will be
-added to a collection and they will be played sequentially).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Once &kmid; is playing a song, you can move the time slider, by pressing
-with the &MMB; mouse button, to go to a specified position.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If a song is playing too fast or too slow for you, you can press on the
-arrows at both sides of the tempo <acronym>LCD</acronym> and make it
-play faster or slower. To get back to the default tempo, just do a
-double click on the tempo <acronym>LCD</acronym>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The <keycap>Space</keycap> key is used for two things, when music is
-playing, and you press the <keycap>Space</keycap> key, it will act as
-when you press on the <guiicon>pause</guiicon> button or the
-<guimenuitem>Pause</guimenuitem> entry of the <guimenu>Song</guimenu>
-menu, that is, it will pause music. If you press the
-<keycap>Space</keycap> key when no music is being played, &kmid; will
-play it.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="displaying-lyrics">
-<title>Displaying lyrics</title>
-
-<para>
-There are two methods to store lyrics in a song, by using
-<guimenuitem>Text events</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Lyrics
-events</guimenuitem>, some songs use the first, some the second, some
-use both of them, and some don't include lyrics :-)
-</para>
-
-<para>
-&kmid; lets you choose which events to display, and even better, it has
-an option to automatically select the type of events that a song uses,
-so that you don't have to change the type manually . That way, if you
-activate the <guimenuitem>Automatic Text Chooser</guimenuitem> entry of
-the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu, the karaoke text will be
-automatically selected, but you can still change them if you prefer to
-see the other type.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To select which type to see, you can use the appropriate entries in the
-<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu, or just press the <keycap>1</keycap>
-and <keycap>2</keycap> keys of your keyboard to see the
-<guimenuitem>Text events</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Lyrics
-events</guimenuitem> respectively.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="collections">
-<title>Collections</title>
-
-<para>
-A collection is a list of midi files that you put in a set, and which
-are played one after another. This section will help you to use them,
-and will give you some useful tips to make a good use of them.
-</para>
-
-<sect1 id="creating-a-collection">
-<title>Creating a collection</title>
-
-<para>
-To create a collection, first open the <guilabel>Collections
-Manager</guilabel> dialog, by selecting the <guimenuitem>Organize
-...</guimenuitem> entry of the <guimenu>Collections</guimenu> menu .
-Then click on the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button, and enter the name
-you want the collection to have.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-You can also copy a complete collection by selecting it and then
-pressing the <guibutton>Copy</guibutton> button, which will ask you for
-the name of the new collection that will have initially the same songs
-as the selected collection.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Once you have more than one collection, you can change the active
-collection from the <guilabel>Collections Manager</guilabel>, by
-selecting it.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-<sect1 id="the-temporary-collection">
-<title>The Temporary Collection</title>
-
-<para>
-The Temporary Collection is a collection that is used to hold songs you
-want to play but that you don't want to add to any collection.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This collection is <emphasis>not saved</emphasis> on exit of the
-application, so keep it in mind when you add lots of songs to it.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Keep on reading this section for a better understanding of the Temporary
-Collection.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="adding-songs-to-a-collection">
-<title>Adding songs to a collection</title>
-<subtitle>How to use <guimenuitem>AutoAdd to a
-collection</guimenuitem></subtitle>
-
-<para>
-There are some different ways to add a song to a collection.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-First of all in each method, you must have selected the collection you
-want to add songs to in the <guilabel>Collections Manager</guilabel>.
-Then you can press on the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button to add a
-song, there will appear an open file dialog so that you can choose which
-song to add.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The other methods to add a song depend on the state of the
-<guimenuitem>AutoAdd to Collection</guimenuitem> option.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If <guimenuitem>AutoAdd to Collection</guimenuitem> is enabled, when
-you open a song (using <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
-<guimenuitem>Open...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or Drag &amp; Drop) it
-(they) will be added to the active collection without user intervention.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If <guimenuitem>AutoAdd to Collection</guimenuitem> is not enabled,
-when you open a song the Temporary Collection will be activated and
-cleared, and the opened songs will be added to it.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="removing-songs-from-collections">
-<title>Removing songs from collections</title>
-
-<para>
-To delete a song from a collection, just open the <guilabel>Collection
-Manager</guilabel>, select the appropriate collection, and the song you
-wish to delete, and then click on the <guibutton>Remove</guibutton>
-button.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="playing-order">
-<title>Playing in order or at random</title>
-
-<para>
-You can select the order in which songs will be played . When you select
-<guimenuitem>In order</guimenuitem> mode from the <guisubmenu>Play
-Order</guisubmenu> submenu of the <guimenu>Collections</guimenu> menu,
-songs will be played in the same order in which they were added to the
-collection.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-When you select <guimenuitem>Shuffle</guimenuitem> mode, &kmid; will
-generate a random variable with a discrete uniform distribution to
-really play randomly the songs in the collection . It will give values
-to that random variable while generating the list in which order the
-songs will be played (you surely want to play random songs, but don't
-want to play twice the same song, and you want to play the last played
-song when you press on the <guibutton>Previous Song</guibutton> button,
-don't you ? :-) ).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The random list in which the collection will be played will be
-regenerated each time you add or remove a file in the active collection,
-and when you press on the <guimenuitem>Shuffle mode</guimenuitem> entry
-of the menu.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="selecting-from-a-collection">
-<title>Selecting a song from a collection</title>
-
-<para>
-You can select a song to play in the <literal>Collection
-Manager</literal>, or by using the combo box over the karaoke text.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-You can also change to the next song by using the <literal>Next
-Song</literal> entry of the <literal>Song</literal> menu, the
-<literal>Next Song</literal> button of the toolbar, or pressing the
-<literal>right arrow</literal> key.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-To change to the previous song, use the <guimenuitem>Previous
-Song</guimenuitem> entry of the <guimenu>Song</guimenu> menu, the
-<guimenuitem>Previous Song</guimenuitem> button of the toolbar, or press
-the <keycap>left arrow</keycap> key of your keyboard.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="deleting-a-collection">
-<title>Deleting a collection</title>
-
-<para>
-To delete a collection, simply open the <guilabel>Collection
-Manager</guilabel>, select the collection you want to delete, and click
-on <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>. Easy, it isn't? </para>
-
-<para>
-Please keep in mind that you cannot delete the Temporary Collection, but
-it doesn't matter as it is not saved when you quit &kmid;.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="midi-maps">
-<title>Midi Maps</title>
-
-<sect1 id="what-is-a-midimap">
-<title>What is a midi map ?</title>
-
-<para>
-A Midi Map is something that maps midi events in other midi events.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is totally needed if a synthesizer doesn't understand the standard
-events (that is, if a synthesizer is not General Midi compliant), in
-this case, a midi map will translate General Midi events in the events
-that that synthesizer understands.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-For example you can make a midi map that converts all the
-<literal>Change patch to Bright Piano</literal> events, to
-<literal>Change patch to Trumpet</literal> events, and so when a song
-tries to play a piano, it will play a trumpet instead.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This may sound odd, (why playing a trumpet when the song is made to play
-a piano?), but it is very useful. The <acronym>GM</acronym> standard
-specifies that when a midi keyboard receives an event to change patch to
-<literal>0</literal>, it will change the current patch to <literal>Grand
-Piano</literal>, but older synthesizer will change for example to a
-<literal>Electric Guitar</literal> when it receives a
-<literal>0</literal>. This old keyboard, needed to receive a
-<literal>3</literal> (for example) to change to a
-<literal>Piano</literal>. And here comes the midi map in action,
-changing all <literal>change patch to 0</literal> to <literal>change
-patch to 3</literal> and thus really playing the correct instrument when
-it has to.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="do-i-need-a-midi-map">
-<title>Do I need a midi map ?</title>
-
-<para>
-In short, if you don't have an external synth, <emphasis>no</emphasis>!
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you only have a sound card, midi maps are not needed because all the
-sound cards are <acronym>GM</acronym> compliant (this include AWE cards,
-<acronym>GUS</acronym> cards, <acronym>FM</acronym> devices and so on).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you are playing music through an external synthesizer, and it is not
-GM compliant, you will need to make a midi map for your midi keyboard .
-Although you will perhaps be a whole afternoon doing your map file and
-trying different values for all the options, you will be fully rewarded
-when you finish it, because then you will find all the hidden
-possibilities of your keyboard. For example, I have a low-cost Yamaha
-PSS-790, which is not <acronym>GM</acronym> compatible, and doesn't has
-as many instruments as a <acronym>GM</acronym> synthesizer, but with
-&kmid;'s midi mapper, it sounds even better than many soundcards
-(including AWE :-)), due to the sound quality found in external synths
-(even on non <acronym>GM</acronym> compliant ones).
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="creating-a-midi-map">
-<title>Creating a midi map</title>
-
-<para>
-There isn't any program to generate midi maps, so you will have to edit a file
-by hand (using your favorite text editor).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-A Midi map is a text file that keeps all the needed translations there will be
-made when playing music.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-It consist of four sections: <literal>PATCHMAP</literal>,
-<literal>KEYMAP</literal>, <literal>CHANNELMAP</literal> and
-<literal>OPTIONS</literal>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Each section must appear only once, except the <literal>KEYMAP</literal> section
-that can appear as many times as needed, provided that each appearance use a
-different TextID (continue reading for details).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The general structure of a map file is:
-</para>
-
-<screen>DEFINE PATCHMAP
-...
-END
-
-DEFINE KEYMAP "Name of Keymap"
-...
-END
-
-DEFINE KEYMAP "Another Keymap"
-...
-END
-
-DEFINE CHANNELMAP
-...
-END
-
-OPTIONS
-...
-END
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-You can see that the <literal>DEFINE</literal> word is used to specify
-which section is going to be started (except for
-<literal>OPTIONS</literal>), and <literal>END</literal> is put at the
-end of each section. </para>
-
-<para>
-You can put comments by starting the line with a
-<literal>&num;</literal> character.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Please, don't forget to send me your map file by email, so that future
-releases of &kmid; will include support for more non General Midi
-compliant keyboards.
-</para>
-
-<sect2 id="the-patchmap-section">
-<title>The <literal>PATCHMAP</literal> section</title>
-
-<para>
-This section is used to specify how patches are going to be mapped, from
-GM to your keyboard specs . The general usage is:
-</para>
-
-<screen>(Name of GM Patch name)=(<replaceable>N</replaceable>) [AllKeysTo M]
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-Where <replaceable>N</replaceable> is the number that you keyboard needs to
-receive to change the patch to the same that the GM standard does .
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Please note that the left side of the equal sign is ignored, so
-<acronym>GM</acronym> patches are supposed to be in order (from 0 to 127) , and
-so you are not allowed to change the order of the lines nor to omit any of the
-128 instruments.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The optional <literal>AllKeysTo M</literal> is used to map all notes
-that use that instrument to the <literal>M</literal> key . For example,
-suppose that your midi keyboard doesn't have a Gun Shot sound (GM patch
-127) so you want to map it to a percussion drum (i.e. key 60), which
-sounds similar to a gun shot, then you can put in the 127th line of the
-<literal>PATCHMAP</literal> section:
-</para>
-
-<screen>Gunshot =100 AllKeysTo 60</screen>
-
-
-<para>
-So when a midi file tries to play a note with the patch 127 (gun shot), it will
-be mapped to the patch 100 (your keyboard's percussion patch) and play the note
-60 (independently of the key that was going to be played).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Please note that when I use the expression <quote>Percussion patch</quote>, I
-mean the patch in which each key plays a different drum, cymbal, tom, maracas
-and so on, and not to a possible sound which some keyboards have and which plays
-a different tone of the same drum with each key.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="The-keymap-section">
-<title>The <literal>KEYMAP</literal> section</title>
-
-<para>
-The <literal>KEYMAP</literal> section is used to specify how keys are
-going to be mapped, within a given channel or instrument . The usage is:
-</para>
-
-<screen>DEFINE KEYMAP "Name of Keymap"
-C 0 =0
-C#0 =1
-D 0 =2
-...
-END
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-As with the <literal>PATCHMAP</literal> section, it is very important
-the order of the lines, and that they are all there (the 128 keys).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-As you can define multiple keymaps for different channels and instruments,
-you must give a different name to each one in the first line.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Keymaps are mainly used to map keys in the percussion channel . Have a
-look at the distributed maps to see some examples.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="the-channelmap-section">
-<title>The <literal>CHANNELMAP</literal> section</title>
-
-<para>
-This section can be used to map some channels to different ones . For
-example, if you want to swap the first and second channels, you can
-easily do it within the <literal>CHANNELMAP</literal> section.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-However it is more useful for keyboards that need the percussion
-channel to be in a given channel (the GM standard use the channel 10,
-others use the channel 16 and others use channel 9).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Note that midi devices use 16 channels, so the <literal>CHANNELMAP</literal>
-section, has 16 lines, from 0 to 15 , as this one:
-</para>
-
-<screen>(N) = (M) [Keymap "Name"] [ForcePatch x]
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-Where <literal>N</literal> is the channel which is mapped to the
-<literal>M</literal> channel . If the <literal>Keymap</literal> option
-is used, the Keymap with name <literal>Name</literal> will be used in
-this channel (this Keymap should be defined earlier in the map file !) .
-If the <literal>ForcePatch</literal> option is used, all events that try
-to change the patch which is used in this channel will be ignored, and
-patch <literal>x</literal> will be used instead.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The <literal>ForcePatch</literal> option may be useful for example to
-always use the percussion patch on the percussion channel.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="the-options-section">
-<title>The <literal>OPTIONS</literal> section</title>
-
-<para>
-The <literal>OPTIONS</literal> section has some general options that can
-be very useful:
-</para>
-
-<screen>OPTIONS
-PitchBenderRatio = r
-MapExpressionToVolumeEvents
-END
-</screen>
-
-<para>
-You can specify both options, only one, or none of them.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The <literal>PitchBenderRatio r</literal> value, has the ratio by which
-pitch bender events will be multiplied . That is, when a midi file tries
-to send a pitch bender event with a <literal>n</literal> value, the real
-value that will be sent is <literal>n*(r/4096)</literal> (the
-<literal>4096</literal> value is for not having to put decimal points in
-the map file).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-This is used because the <acronym>GM</acronym> standard says that when a
-midi keyboard receives a Pitch Bender event with a 4096 data value, it
-should bend the note to a higher one , but some midi keyboards try to
-bend the initial note by two or more higher notes (even an octave
-higher!) when they receive a 4096 . This can be easily fixed by trying
-different values so that instead of sending a 4096, KMid sends the
-appropriate value.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-When the <literal>MapExpressionToVolumeEvents</literal> option is set in
-the map file, and a midi file try to send an expression event, KMid will
-send a volume event which is understood by more non-GM keyboards, and
-which has a similar effect . There are many midi files which use
-expression events to fade out at the end of a song, so if you feel that
-music should be heard softer and softer, you can turn on this option and
-see if this is what you need, because your midi synthesizer could be
-ignoring the expression events because it doesn't understand them.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="using-midimaps">
-<title>Using midi maps</title>
-
-<para>
-To use a midi map, simply open the <guilabel>Midi Setup</guilabel>
-dialog by selecting the <guimenuitem>Midi Setup ...</guimenuitem> entry
-of the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Then click on <guilabel>Browse ...</guilabel>, select the map file within the open
-file dialog and enjoy the music ! :-)
-</para>
-</sect1>
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="advanced-features">
-<title>Advanced features</title>
-
-<sect1 id="the-channel-view">
-<title>The Channel View</title>
-
-<para>
-The Channel view is a window where you are shown a heap of keyboards (one for
-each midi channel). In these keyboards, the notes that are being played with
-each instrument are highlighted so that you can see what is each instrument
-playing.
-</para>
-
-<sect2 id="changing-instruments">
-<title>Changing instruments</title>
-
-<para>
-You can use the Channel View to change the instrument that each channel is
-playing. In each channel there is a combo box where you can select it. Once you
-change it, the green button next to it will change to red to indicate that this
-is not the default instrument.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you want to set again the default instrument, click on the red button, and it
-will be automatically set.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="changing-the-look">
-<title>Changing the look mode</title>
-
-<para>
-The Channel View has two different ways (for now) to display the played notes,
-you can select them from the <guimenuitem>Channel View Options...</guimenuitem>
-item in the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-You can choose between a mode in which played keys are pressed, as if it were a
-normal piano (<guilabel>3D look</guilabel>), or a mode in which keys are also
-filled with red color, so that pressed keys are easily recognized (<guilabel>3D
-- filled</guilabel>). If you play the piano, or any other music instrument, you
-can use this view to learn to play a song by yourself. I've used this technique
-and it (along with a tempo reduction) is great to
-learn new compositions.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="the-tempo-lcd">
-<title>The Tempo <acronym>LCD</acronym></title>
-
-<para>
-This shows the tempo in which a song is played, that is, the velocity of the
-song. The higher this number is, the faster the song will play.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-You can also change the tempo of the song, so if a song plays too fast for you
-to follow the lyrics, you can make it play slower. To change the tempo, you can
-use the arrows that appear at each sides of the <acronym>LCD</acronym>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Once you have changed the tempo, you can get back the default one by doing a
-double click on the <acronym>LCD</acronym>.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="key-bindings">
-<title>Key bindings</title>
-
-<informaltable>
-<tgroup cols="2">
-<thead>
-<row>
-<entry>Key</entry>
-<entry>Action</entry>
-</row>
-</thead>
-<tbody>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Space</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Play the loaded song, if it isn't playing, or pause it, if it's already
-playing.</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Backspace</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Stop playing</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Right Arrow</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Next song in current collection</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Left Arrow</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Previous song in current collection</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Up Arrow</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Scroll lyrics one line up</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Down Arrow</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Scroll lyrics one line down</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Page Up</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Scroll lyrics one page up</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>Page Down</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Scroll lyrics one page down</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>1</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Display text events</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>2</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Display lyric events</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>O</keycap></keycombo></entry>
-<entry>Open a song</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo></entry>
-<entry>Quit &kmid;</entry>
-</row>
-<row>
-<entry><keycap>F1</keycap></entry>
-<entry>Open this document</entry>
-</row>
-</tbody>
-</tgroup>
-</informaltable>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="frequently-asked-questions">
-<title>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)</title>
-
-<qandaset>
-<qandaentry>
-<question>
-<para>
-What is exactly a midi file?
-</para>
-</question>
-
-<answer>
-<para>A Midi file is a file that contains the information on how to play
-a song, that is, it contains simply the notes, the rhythm,
-velocity,&etc; This implies that the same midi file, when played in two
-different devices, can produce very different results, as well as a
-given staff can be played very differently by two different musicians.
-</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-
-<qandaentry>
-<question>
-<para>
-I can get better sound with a mp3/wav player, why should I use &kmid;?
-</para>
-</question>
-<answer>
-<para>
-Well, I cannot force anyone to use &kmid;, but a typical midi file
-occupies 50 Kb. while a typical mp3 file occupies 4 Mb. (and that is a
-1:80 compression ratio :-) . And with a good synthesizer device, you can
-get a comparable sound quality. Even more, with a midi file, you can
-change individual instruments, change the velocity of a song, &etc; so
-you have more overall control.
-</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-
-<qandaentry>
-<question>
-<para>
-I can't get my AWE card to work with KMid, what can I do?
-</para>
-</question>
-<answer>
-<para>
-This can happen when you get a binary distribution (rpm, deb) of &kmid;. It
-happens because &kmid; was compiled without awe support. If it doesn't
-work, then you must download a source code distribution (for example, from
-<ulink url="http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html">&kmid;'s homepage</ulink>)
-</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-
-<qandaentry>
-<question>
-<para>
-I want to add a whole folder to a collection, but having to add the midi
-files one by one is not funny.
-</para>
-</question>
-
-<answer>
-<para>
-I agree, that's why &kmid; supports Drag &amp; Drop. Just open, in &konqueror;,
-the folder you want to add, select all the files, drag them and drop them in
-&kmid;.
-</para>
-<para>
-Be sure to set the <guimenuitem>AutoAdd to Collection</guimenuitem> option before, so that the
-files will be added to the current collection. If you don't do this, files will
-be added to the Temporary Collection.
-</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-
-<qandaentry>
-<question>
-<para>
-I can't follow the lyrics, it's playing too fast!
-</para>
-</question>
-<answer>
-<para>
-You can press the left arrow of the tempo <acronym>LCD</acronym> to make it play
-slower. Remember that you can do a double click on the <acronym>LCD</acronym> to
-get the default tempo.
-</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-</qandaset>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter id="final-notes">
-<title>Final notes</title>
-
-<sect1 id="some-tips-and-tricks">
-<title>Some tips and tricks</title>
-
-<para>
-I will include some tips so that you can take fully advantage from all
-the features of &kmid;:
-</para>
-
-<variablelist>
-<varlistentry>
-<term>Opening files</term>
-<listitem>
-<para>I always keep a &kde; desktop with a &konqueror; window in my root
-midi folder, and &kmid; in this desktop (if playing a midi file) or
-sticky (if playing a karaoke file :-)). This way, when the active
-collection finishes, or I want to play some file, I just go to the
-konqueror; window, select the desired files and Drag &amp; Drop to the
-&kmid;'s window.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Suppose that you want to play some midi files, but don't want to add
-them to any collection, well, just turn off the <guimenuitem>AutoAdd to
-Collection</guimenuitem> option in the <guimenu>Collections</guimenu>
-menu, and open the files, they will be added to the Temporary
-Collection.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term>Another method to create a new Collection</term>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Suppose that you have midi files <filename>A.mid</filename>,
-<filename>B.mid</filename> and <filename>C.mid</filename>. At first you
-only want to play the first midi file, so you unselect
-<guimenuitem>AutoAdd</guimenuitem> and open
-<filename>A.mid</filename>. You get then a Temporary Collection with
-only one midi file.
-</para>
-<para>
-Then you decide to play also B and C, and make a collection with all them, what
-do you do?
-</para>
-<para>
-Easy, select <guimenuitem>AutoAdd</guimenuitem> and open
-<filename>B.mid</filename> and <filename>C.mid</filename> (by any of the
-multiple methods), they will be automatically added to the Temporary
-Collection, that will then have <filename>A.mid</filename>,
-<filename>B.mid</filename> and <filename>C.mid</filename>. At this
-point, you can open the <guilabel>Organize Collections</guilabel>
-dialog, select the Temporary Collection, and click on the
-<literal>Copy</literal> button, enter the name of the new collection,
-and you are done . You already have a new collection, which holds the
-A,B and C midi files, and that is not deleted when you close &kmid;.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="hall-of-kmids-friends">
-<title>Hall of &kmid;'s friends</title>
-
-<para>
-These are some folks who have sent me midi files or a postcard, thanks
-to everyone! Hearing those songs and watching those postcards will keep
-me programming more and more on &kmid;.
-</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>Ola Sigurdson - <literal>Taking Care of Business</literal> (Bachman
-Turner Overdrive)</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>EG Lim - A really very nice postcard from Penang.</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Guenther Starnberger - <literal>Amadeus</literal> (Falco) and
-<literal>Schrei Nach Liebe</literal> (Die Aerzte)</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Leandro Terr&eacute;s - <literal>All That She Wants</literal> and
-<literal>The Sign</literal> (Ace of Base)</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>Nick Stoic - Two midi files</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="about-the-author">
-<title>About the author</title>
-
-<para>
-&kmid; has been made by Antonio Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez, in M&aacute;laga
-(Spain). I am a student of Mathematics at the University of
-M&aacute;laga, currently I'm doing the third course, so I don't have
-much free time for my hobbies, but I always try to get some :-) . My
-hobbies include : Programming, collecting midi files, playing music and
-proving theorems ;-).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you want to know where to download midi/karaoke files, you have any
-question, a bug to report, an idea or a feature you'd like to see in
-&kmid; or just want to make me happy, feel free to send me an email to:
-<email>larrosa@kde.org</email> or <email>antlarr@arrakis.es</email>
-</para>
-
-<para>or write to me by snail-mail at:
-</para>
-
-<literallayout> Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
-Rio Arnoya 10 5B
-Malaga (Spain)
-</literallayout>
-
-<para>
-You will really make me happy if you send me a postcard from where you
-live, or a midi/karaoke file from a local music group of your country
-. Everyone who sends me a postcard or a midi file will have his/her name
-in the Hall of &kmid;'s friends of this file (provided they don't oppose
-to this). Please contact me before sending me any midi files because I
-may have it already.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-I'd like stress that &kmid; has been done completely on free time,
-without any monetary support from any company nor particular. So please
-keep in mind when you use it, that the only think that keep me working
-on this is getting some feedback from its users (a postcard, or just an
-email).
-</para>
-
-<para>
-I would like to thanks the following persons their help in developing &kmid;:
-</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Paul J. Leonard <email>P.J.Leonard@bath.ac.uk</email> - Support for AWE
-cards
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Sebestyen Zoltan <email>szoli@digo.inf.elte.hu</email>- FreeBSD port and
-AWE testing
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Christian Esken <email>esken@kde.org</email> - For organizing the KDE
-multimedia efforts
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Stephan Kulow <email>coolo@kde.org</email>- Configure scripts and help
-with <command>automake</command> and <command>CVS</command>
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Jaroslav Kysela - Help in doing the &Linux; Ultrasound Project driver
-support
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Takashi Iwai and Joseph H. Buehler - Fix for AWE cards pitch being
-too high
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Adrian Knoth - For giving me good news and many suggestions
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Kevin Street - Patch to support FreeBSD 3.0
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-Thanks go also to Jose Luis Sanchez for his testing of GUS support,
-Ignacio Garcia for testing the AWE support, Hans Petter Bieker, Ola
-Sigurdson, Marc Diefenbruch, Peter Gritsch, Magnus Pfeffer, Urko Lusa,
-Peter-Paul Witta, Thorsten Westheider, Ulrich Cordes and everyone that
-sent me a patch, bug report or just an email to give me encouragement.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-And of course to all the fabulous musicians over the net that keep giving
-us those wonderful midi and karaoke files.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<!-- TRANS:CREDIT_FOR_TRANSLATORS -->
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="copyright-and-license">
-<title>Copyrights and License</title>
-
-<para>&kmid; is copyright Antonio Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez, 1999-2001</para>
-
-<para>Documentation is copyright Antonio Larrosa Jim&eacute;nez 1999,
-2001</para>
-
-&underFDL;
-&underGPL;
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>
-
-<appendix id="installation">
-<title>Installation</title>
-
-<sect1 id="how-to-obtain-kmid">
-<title>How to obtain &kmid;</title>
-
-&install.intro.documentation;
-
-<para>
-Additionally, &kmid; can be found on its homepage, which is at <ulink
-url="http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html">
-http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html</ulink>. In the homepage, you can
-follow its development, see some information about it, some screenshots, a list
-of sites from where you can download more karaoke songs, &etc;
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="requirements">
-<title>Requirements</title>
-
-<para>&kmid; requires to work:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-&kde;. Well, you probably already have this :-)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-A sound card. A good soundcard and/or external synthesizer are
-recommended, as the sound quality depends greatly in your soundcard,
-it's not the same to play the music using an FM device, than using an
-AWE card.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you don't have a soundcard, you can still compile &kmid; with
-<literal>MODE_DEMO_ONLYVISUAL</literal> defined and it will run as if
-you had one (but you'll get no music, of course :-( ).
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="compilation-and-installation">
-<title>Compilation and Installation</title>
-
-&install.compile.documentation;
-
-<para>
-I've included some examples that are installed in <filename
-class="directory">$dollar;<envar>TDEDIR</envar>/share/apps/kmid</filename>
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you run into any problem, don't hesitate to contact any of the &kde; mailing
-list, or send a report directly to me.
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</appendix>
-
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