The K Desktop Environment

1. kooBase Introduction

kooBase is a music application, including an extensive score editor, a drum editor, an event editor, general MIDI import/export, and a nice API that allows kooBase to be extended.
The original application, that gave me the inspiration to kooBase, is of course the well known program CuBase (Steinberg Research), which unfortunately is available for Mac/Wintel only. Certainly I cannot provide all the features CuBase does. For this reason there will be an API that allows the user to extend kooBase, i.e. manipulate tracks and notes, or whatever one can do with notes ;-)
When I announced this project in the mailinglist, I got much encouragement to make kooBase greater and better... thanx for that ;-)

1.1 Features

  • plays music data to the soundcard or a connected MIDI device
  • imports and exports MIDI file format (implemented, but still buggy)
  • uses natively an own file format (.kb extension)
  • supports several MIDI input methods:
    • records data from am extern MIDI device (not implemented yet)
    • mouse input through an extensive score editor
    • mouse input through a Piano Roll editor (not implemented yet - but soon be)
    • mouse input through a MIDI event editor (not implemented yet)
    • mouse input through a drum editor
  • supports harddisc recording (not implemented yet)
  • structured layout offers a comfortable way to organize a piece of music


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