Drumstick is a set of MIDI libraries using C++/Qt idioms and style. Includes a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface: ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. A complementary library provides classes for processing SMF (Standard MIDI files: .MID/.KAR), RIFF MIDI (.RMI), and Cakewalk (.WRK) file formats. A multiplatform realtime MIDI I/O library and a GUI Widgets libraries are also provided for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.
Changes in v2.11.0:
- RT library:
- Related to GH #30, new function BackendManager *drumstick::rt::lastBackendManagerInstance()
- Synths Upgrade to Sonivox v4.0 and Fluidsynth v2.5, allowing native SF2 and DLS on both synths
- Widgets library:
- Swedish translation update, thanks to Karl Jonatan Nyberg
Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms:
- C++17 compiler
- CMake 3.16
- Qt6 >= 6.2 with Qt6Core5Compat library dependency for Drumstick::File or Qt5 >= 5.9
Feature dependencies (for some platforms):
- ALSA (Linux only)
- PulseAudio (Unix)
- PipeWire (Unix)
- D-Bus (Unix)
- Sonivox (Unix)
- FluidSynth (All platforms)
Copyright (C) 2009-2025, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v3 or later
Project web site:
https://sourceforge.net/p/drumstick
Online documentation:
https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/
Downloads:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/2.11.0/














