README

QMidiArp by Frank Kober 2009 - 2024
            Nedko Arnaudov 2011
            Guido Scholz 2009
            Matthias Nagorni          (c)2004 by Novell

         published under the GNU General Public License.
         A copy of the License can be found in the COPYING file

Contributions
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Roy Vegard Ovesen (work on nsm support)
Matthew McGuire (LFO phase setting)

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Description
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QMidiArp is an arpeggiator, sequencer and MIDI LFO for ALSA and JACK.
For further information on general function please refer to the qmidiarp
manual page.


Dependencies
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You need the following development headers and libraries for building:

qtbase5-dev     (qt5-devel)
qttools5-dev-tools for language translations
libasound2-dev (libalsa-devel)
libjack-dev    (jackit-devel)
liblo-dev      (liblo-devel) for nsm support
lv2-dev        (lv2-devel) for building the LV2 modules

For building the robtk LV2 UIs please also install the following:

libpango1.0-dev 
libcairo2-dev 
libpugl-dev


Installation with cmake (qmidiarp >= 0.6.7)
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After unpacking:
cd qmidiarp-<version>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install


Installation with auto* tools
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For building with autoconf/automake as build system. For short

  ./configure
  make
  make install

does the trick. Please refer to the INSTALL file for more information.


Git check-out
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If you start with a fresh Git checkout, please first make sure you have
the following packages installed: 

autoconf
automake
libtool

If this is the case, run

  autoreconf -i

in the top of the source tree to get a proper configure script. For more 
instructions about compiling and installing this application please 
refer to the INSTALL file.


Doxygen documentation
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If you have doxygen installed, you can use

make doxygen-doc

to produce functional html documentation of all classes. The html files
are written to the doxygen-doc directory.


Help
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User documentation is provided at

qmidiarp.sourceforge.net

Please ask for help there, too.