What is this

I wanted to write MIDI files and existing tools weren't doing it for me so I did it myself. So: a MIDI tracker. It's built to make MIDI files. However, it's not a general MIDI editor.

Playback

TMidiTracker operates purely in MIDI — it technically has no audio output of its own. You will need a MIDI device/software that supports General Midi in order to use this.

On Windows, Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth will be available, so no extra work is needed.

Fluidsynth is a recommended software if you don't have anything else preferred. The tracker also has integration with it, and will provide built in audio if Fluidsynth is detected on the system. (TODO: does this work on not Linux?)

Installation

Linux (WIP, MAY NOT WORK)

• Download and extract repository wherever you feel like.
• Launch run.sh
  • This is how you launch the program. It will setup venv and install dependencies the first time around.
    (Delete the 'INSTALLED' file that gets generated to redo this)
• Potential Errors
  • Failure when installing python-rtmidi (note, error messages are verbose for this so a sample will be provided)
    • Unknown compilers "../meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown compiler(s): [['c++'], ['g++'], ['clang++'], ['nvc++'], ['pgc++'], ['icpc'], ['icpx']]"
      • Install any of those compilers
        • (It worked with clang when I tried)
    • ALSA not found Run-time dependency alsa found: NO (tried pkg-config)
      • Install a suitable ALSA lib
        • dnf install alsa-lib-devel
        • TODO: others (i think it's libasound2?)
    • JACK not found
      • idk it stopped being annoying at me?
    • Run-time dependency python found: NO (tried pkgconfig and sysconfig)
      • Install python3-devel
        • dnf install python3-devel
        • TODO: others (probably just on apt)
    • I'm pretty sure what's happening here is there isn't a binary available, so it has to build it, and these are the tools it needs to do so.

Windows

• Install Python (built with 3.13.5, should work with newer)
• Download and extract repository wherever you feel like.
• Launch run.bat
  • This is how you launch the program. It will setup venv and install dependencies the first time around.
    (Delete the 'INSTALLED' file that gets generated to redo this)

Other

• I haven't got around to that yet. Should be the same process, but you'll have to do what run.bat does manually. Also the program may still not work because it's untested elsewhere.

Optional Dependencies

• Fluidsynth.
  • This will allow the program to produce audio on its own, rather than needing a standalone device.
  • If integration is working, there will be a port labeled "Internal Fluidsynth".
  • Options related to Fluidsynth will also be exposed.

Uninstallation

Delete the program folder.