MIDIJam for the modern computer.
Feature rich, easy to use, and free. midis2jam2 is the best way to play MIDI files on your computer.
🎶 Your favorite songs—animated.
midis2jam2 is a 3D MIDI file visualizer. It plays any MIDI file and animates its performance with a virtual band.
A remaster of MIDIJam, it provides a faithful recreation of the original MIDI file visualizer with new instruments, graphics, and settings.
🎥 View from anywhere.
midis2jam2 natively supports a freecam/noclip feature, allowing you to move around the scene and view from any angle.
Get up close to any instrument and notice the detail. Each instrument is accurately and aesthetically animated.
🔊 Listen with your favorite SoundFont.
Experience midis2jam2 with high-quality sound, allowing you to play with any SoundFont of your choosing.
Have a physical MIDI synthesizer? Connection is easy with simple configuration.
🪕 More instruments than ever before.
New instruments including the clarinet, banjo, and helicopter have on-screen visuals—with more to come with every release.
midis2jam2 currently supports the visualization of any instrument 98% of the time.
🖥️ Free and open-source—forever.
midis2jam2 is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License . It will always be free and open-source. You can view the source code on GitHub .
You can also contribute to the project by reporting bugs, requesting features, or submitting pull requests.
Download
v1.9.0 – Jul 17, 2024
macOS and Linux builds are currently unavailable. Please check back later.
midis2jam2 will always be free to download and use. If you found this valuable or entertaining, and want to support its development, consider buying me a coffee. Thank you! ❤️
Other platforms, versions, and source • Nightly builds
Changelog
- Add new instruments: Bagpipes; Electronic, Analog, and Orchestra kits
- Add buttons to open documentation
- Add locales: Arabic, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean
- Add new animation for Applause Choir
- Add pitch bendsupport for instruments: Harmonica; Stage Choir
- Add playback controls: start/stop, rewind, fast forward, and loop (#98)
- Add reverb and chorus controls for Gervill synthesizer (#190)
- Fix the issue where backgroundcubemap images were horizontally flipped (#170)
- Fix the issue where lyrics were sometimes duplicated (#185)
- Fix the issue where the Accordion and French Horn overlapped (#187)
- Fix the issue where the Space Laserwould sometimes animate incorrectly during pitch bend
- Fix the issue where the app would crash if a MIDI device was removed (#180)
- Fix the issue where the app would crash if it did not have a translation for the systemlocale (#173)
- Fix the issue where the app would sometimes crash when picking a background color (#174)
- Fix the issue where the audio and video would sometimes go out of sync (#181)
- Improve animation for instruments: Stage Choir; Stage Strings; Pizzicato Strings; Music Box; Tubular Bells; Cuica; String Family Instruments
- Improve guitar fretting algorithm
- Improve lyric display
Profiled and packaged with JProfiler and install4j , a Java profiler and multi-platform installer builder.
Documentation
Need help getting started? Check out the documentation .