MidiSwing shows the content of a midi file as a piano roll which you can edit. You can edit any existing midi file, or compose your own music from scratch.

MidiSwing has been specially developed with the Mac OS X user in mind. Source code will be available in the final versions.

Features

• MidiSwing can play any midi file, using a Java Soundbank (included in the application).
• You can choose the instrument for each midi channel among the 128 General Midi Instruments.
• You can compose a melody for each track by clicking on the keys of a keyboard. In turn, the keys light up when you play a midi file. Very convenient if you want to learn how to play a tune from a midi file.
• You can adjust different parameters such as tempo, volume, stereo (pan position), reverberation, and pitch bend.
• Finally, you can see the list of midi events in your midi file. MidiSwing cannot let you modify them in this list yet.

New in this version:

• Scrubbing (notes are played when one drags the scrub on the piano roll)
• Core Audio/Sound Font is now used to play sounds when notes are clicked (and not only when the music is played)
• The instrument menu shows the actual names of the instruments for every Sound Font .SF2
• The java sound bank of your Java installation is used by default (if no sound bank is found, then the built-in sound bank is used)
• Quantization : notes can be automatically readjusted to the right times of the music
• Improvement in the editing interface (use of arrows, permutation of tools)
• Bug fix : the first notes of the file are not shortened any more when the file is re-opened.
• The programme has been translated in French.