Merik Midi player and Lyrics/chord viewer for Live usage

[Eriknie]

Hi all, I had some time to spare and wanted a midi setup where I could play with friends, perhaps perform. There are some hardware devices that play MIDI files with some slider per instrument groups (like bass) that picks out alle channels with program changes that are in that instrument groups.

I started developing a small tool. First in Ploque Bidule, later as a macOS/windows app. It is starting to get bigger and more mature to a level that I wanted to share this with others. I hope that someone can use is. For Windows there was the Vanbasco midi player, but did not do chords and looked a little bit old fashioned. And is no longer maintained.

https://merik.eriknie.synology.me

Please have a look at my player, 100% free and perhaps you can use it. Very stable release 0.6 does play all files that I have in various versions with lyrics and chords.

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Major features:
- plays midi files in setlist
- displays lyrics and chords in a webbrower, so any device, tablet, pc can display them
- volume control per instrument group
- can be controlled via webbrowser, so having a laptop in the save back of stage and an iPad for starting the next song, controlling the volumes and reading lyrics and chords. All via Wifi and remote. Very clean setup.

[Schorsch]

Hi,

this looks very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I wanted to download the player for taking a closer look but the link in your post does not work. It actually starts with the Nord User Forum
Webpage address makes it look like a subsection of the forum, which produces an error message from the Forum:

merik.eriknie.synology.me

Removing www.norduserforum.com/ from the link address does the trick, so you may want to update the link

Again thanks !!

[Eriknie]

Thanks, I corrected the link. Should work now.
I appreciate this and hope you can give it a test run.

[Schorsch]

Yep it’s working now - thanks

[Eriknie]

New update 0.7 with much tighter midi playback and mutes per midi channel.
Almost ready for final release. Please let me know if there any problems! Thanks

[Eriknie]

New update: 0.8.5 with integrated soundfont player. no need for setting up an external player.

Drop in a GM soundfont and a midi file.

It was a big challenge to get this working on macOS en Windows.
Seems to be stable and is tested on several different setups.
Please let me know if it working for you and if there are any features you would like.
Link is in the first post