# Haiku MIDI Player 1.0.1

This is a simple application to play MIDI songs.

### To play a MIDI song, you can:

- double-click it, or
- drag it on the MidiPlayer icon, or
- drag it into the MidiPlayer window, or
- type "MidiPlayer song.mid" in Terminal.

Hopefully, most of the options will be obvious, although Live Input may require a few lines of explanation.

The Live Input 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.

### Differences from the BeOS R5 MidiPlayer:

- User interface looks slightly different (better?)
- Play and Stop are now one and the same button.
- There is no Open File... function.
- You cannot set the Quality of the sound (always 44100 Hz).
- 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 :-)

If people really really want these missing features, then feel free to add them :-)