Hello Zoltan,
I've been a member of Vogons for a while now, and I also have been using your MIDIPlayer for many years, it is a great program! I've always been interested in MIDI since the mid 90's when I learned about it. I'm by no means an expert but I do know the general terms, and have many cables and hardware, AWE32 cards etc. I just found a free digital piano with MIDI to plug into my SB Live! card, something I've always wanted to do, play music into the computer, as I play the piano pretty well. The lady says it needs a small fix, but might be easy, so wish me luck on that.
Anyway, back to your player. After using dozens over the years, I've settled on yours for just about everything. It is small, fast, flexible, easy to change MIDI file settings, reverb etc on the fly, and does everything in one program that a whole slew of others could only guess at. I also love your Reality soundfont, it sounds terrific with my Live! Platinum SoundFont card.
There is one feature I've been looking for for years, never found a player that could do it. Yours comes close, it is very flexible, but what would really make my day is to have that flexibility shown for all 16 tracks at once, with little keyboards, that would be fantastic. A year or two ago I hashed up a concept in Windows Paintbrush (been using it since Win 3.1, does my skill show?... 😎 It is several versions out of date, you have done a lot of work since then, and I skipped a few buttons out of laziness, but I think you can get the idea.
I'm not sure how much programming that would take, I've done DOS Batch files in the past but never learned a programming language. Perhaps something like putting in an "Expand" button that would duplicate your player 16 times for the 16 tracks? The knobs at the top-R would be Master control knobs, and turn all the others at once. I love to turn up the Reverb on all tracks in my MIDI files all the time, so this is one of my main likes about this setup, not having to do it for each track 16 times.
Anyway, this would be a really great thing to have, and I can understand if it would be too much work, but thought I'd throw it out there for you to see. Glad I found this forum, it's great having a place to hash out ideas like this.... 😀
All the best Zoltan, and MANY thanks for a GREAT EXCELLENT program AND soundfont I use everyday!
Bellarmine
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