<s>
WildMIDI	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
synthesizer	O
which	O
converts	O
MIDI	O
note	O
data	O
into	O
an	O
audio	O
signal	O
using	O
GUS	B-Application
sound	O
patches	O
without	O
need	O
for	O
a	O
GUS	B-Application
patch-compatible	O
soundcard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WildMIDI	B-Application
,	O
whose	O
aim	O
is	O
to	O
be	O
as	O
small	O
as	O
possible	O
and	O
easily	O
portable	O
,	O
started	O
in	O
December	O
2001	O
,	O
can	O
act	O
as	O
a	O
virtual	O
MIDI	O
device	O
,	O
capable	O
of	O
receiving	O
MIDI	O
data	O
from	O
any	O
program	O
and	O
transforming	O
it	O
into	O
audio	O
on-the-fly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
the	O
standard	O
MIDI	O
renderer	O
for	O
the	O
GStreamer	B-Language
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WildMIDI	B-Application
consists	O
of	O
two	O
parts	O
,	O
the	O
library	B-Library
which	O
other	O
applications	O
can	O
link	O
against	O
and	O
a	O
command-line	B-Application
(	O
CLI	O
)	O
player	O
used	O
to	O
show	O
off	O
the	O
features	O
of	O
the	O
library	B-Library
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cross	B-Operating_System
Platform	I-Operating_System
:	O
Linux	O
,	O
Windows	O
,	O
OSX	O
,	O
*	O
BSD	O
,	O
*	O
DOS	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WildMIDI	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
conceived	O
in	O
December	O
2001	O
as	O
an	O
experiment	O
to	O
see	O
if	O
MIDI	O
files	O
could	O
be	O
played	O
using	O
the	O
same	O
samples	O
as	O
existing	O
software	O
but	O
with	O
less	O
overhead	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
CLI	O
player	O
was	O
in	O
2002	O
and	O
thanks	O
to	O
the	O
support	O
of	O
the	O
Quakeforge	O
developers	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
later	O
split	O
into	O
a	O
library	B-Library
and	O
player	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2003	O
,	O
Quakeforge	O
started	O
using	O
the	O
library	B-Library
in	O
their	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
official	O
release	O
of	O
WildMIDI	B-Application
was	O
in	O
2004	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
WildMIDI	B-Application
was	O
forked	B-Application
in	O
2013	O
by	O
Bret	O
Curtis	O
who	O
now	O
maintains	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
re-factored	O
WildMIDI	B-Application
was	O
released	O
as	O
version	O
0.3.0	O
in	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
