QMidi - Karaoke Player and More
Shareware (free to try) - Mac OS 10.13 (Hi Sierra) or later required - Fully compatible with MacOS Tahoe. Runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
QMidi is the ultimate multimedia karaoke player for Mac. It can organize and play many types of media files, including MIDI, movies and .CDG files, and allows easy text and chords editing/synchronization. It features real time pitch shifting, time stretching and the ability to display karaoke and movie content in full screen mode, even on a second monitor.
QMidi has an intuitive user interface, which you will be able to use immediately. You can quickly make playlists of your favorite songs and play them sequentially. You can also use the library to organize your files similarly to iTunes.
QMidi key features
- Play any audio or video format supported by macOS, with native support for MIDI, FLAC, and OGG files.
- Play multitrack AIFF, WAV, MOV and MOGG files. Great for gig backing tracks!
- Ability to manually preload the next song.
- Time stretch, pitch transpose, chord transpose with the ability to export changes.
- Audio mixer, MIDI mixer, GS effects. MIDI Thru.
- Displays MP3 and MIDI lyrics, chords and markers, CDG karaoke, display karaoke on mirror window (second screen).
- Add lyrics, chords and markers to any media and export to many formats.
- LRC format reading and exporting. ChordPro format exporting.
- Karaoke to movie conversion.
- Supports many foreign text encodings.
- Karaoke text formatting with custom background image, Karaoke text on video!
- Multi-page PDF files display and synchronization.
- Remote control using MIDI messages or AppleScript.
- Supports MacOS Core MIDI devices and Apple DLS Music Device (SoundFonts).
- Italian and French localizations.
QMidi Pro additional features
- Play audio/video and MIDI in sync.
- Crossfade your MIDI, audio and video files.
- Markers region loop.
- Metronome with precount and user specified audio channel output.
- MTC (MIDI Time code) sync.
QMidi is a shareware product. This means, you may copy it freely and try it out thoroughly. As soon as you decide to use the program, you are requested to register it. Thanks for your support!
New with version 3.0.2 - Released on Apr 29, 2026
- Various enhancements, optimizations and bugs fixes.
New with version 3.0 - Released on Mar 9, 2026
- New 16ch IN → 4ch OUT audio mixer.
- Audio analyzer (start and end time detection).
- Selectable audio output and metronome sounds (bar and beat).
- Ogg and Mogg (multichannel OGG) files support.
- Player menu: added "Skip Back" and "Skip Ahead" actions. Hold Option to rewind or advance one frame in videos.
- Export as movie now supports line scroll mode and chord progress bar at user-specified FPS.
- Videos can now be exported (as movie) with modified pitch/rate.
- Better / faster CDG to movie export.
- Unified transport panel UI between standard and Pro version.
- Manual song preload now also available in the standard version.
- Added enhanced MIDI remote controls editor.
- You can now run multiple copies of the application simultaneously.
- Added SC-88 Pro patch list.
- You can now choose a minimum song listening time to consider it as a play.
- Added "Reset Privacy Permission" menu to fix permission issues on recent systems.
Karaoke
- Now supporting Markers reading, creation and editing. Markers loop.
- Synced text, chords, markers and mix are now saved in the .qmid package in open JSON format.
- Karaoke text over video!
- Karaoke text outline for better visibility over image/video.
- Sync menu: added "Adjust Tempo", "Quantize", "Reload" and "Transformations" actions.
- Sync: hold down the Option key when adding a new line to insert it at the player's current time.
- You can now hide a synced PDF in the Karaoke or Mirror window, revealing any synced text underneath.
- PDF sync made easier. Smoother PDF scrolling. Continuous scroll with next-page preview.
- You can now apply a lead or delay to your karaoke display via the delay panel.
Library
- You can now specify a target playlist in the library and add items to it using the contextual menu.
- Option-drag items in a playlist to create a duplicate.
- Added the "Key Signature" field. Key signature can also be displayed as Camelot code.
- Added pitch field in the library info editor.
- Library menu: added "Detect Audio Start Time", "Detect Audio End Time", "Merge Duplicates", "Remove", "Set as Target", "Add to Target", and "Reset Playback Count" actions.
- You can now customize the default double-click (Enter key) action in the library (load or preload).
- You can now customize the library location.
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