MIDICOPY(1) General Commands Manual MIDICOPY(1)
NAME
midicopy - Copy selected track, channel, time interval of a MIDI file to another MIDI file
SYNOPSIS
midicopy [-ver] [-trks n1,n2,..] [-chans n1,n2,...] [-from n (in midi ticks)] [-to n (in midi ticks)] [-fromsec %f n (in seconds)]
[-tosec n (in seconds)] [-frombeat %f n (in beats)] [-tosec n (in beats)] [-replace trk,loc,val] input.mid output.mid
DESCRIPTION
midicopy is used to copy part of a MIDI file to another MIDI file. You can select a particular time interval, particular channels, and par-
ticular tracks or any combinations. If one or both of the run time parameters -from or -to are included, the program returns the playing
time in seconds of the output file. Midicopy was developed by Seymour Shlien from the midifilelib distribution available from
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/midifilelib.tar.gz.
OPTIONS
-ver prints version number and then exits
-trks n
Selects the tracks to be copied where the track numbers start from 1. If more than one track is specified, they should be separated
by commas. You should always copy track 1 since by convention it contains information pertinent to all the other tracks. By default
all tracks are copied unless you specify particular tracks using this run time parameter.
-chns n
Like above, it specifies the MIDI channels to be copied. By default all channels are copied. Channel numbers also start from 1.
-from n
The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from midi pulse number n. By default it will start from time zero or the beginning
of the MIDI file.
-to n Stops copying all events after midi pulse number n. By default the file is copied to the end.
-frombeat n
The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from quarter beat number n. By default it will start from time zero or the begin-
ning of the MIDI file.
-tobeat n
Stops copying all events after quarter beat number n. By default the file is copied to the end.
-fromsec n
The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from time n in seconds.
-tosec n
Stops copying all events after time n in seconds. These two options (-fromsec and -tosec) do not work accurately if the MIDI file
has more than one tempo command. Only the first one is used for converting seconds into MIDI pulse units. It is therefore prefer-
able to use the -from and -to options.
-replace trk,loc,val
This option should be used alone. Midicopy will copy the entire file verbatim except it will replace a byte by val, where the byte
is located in the specified track (trk) and specified position (loc). Commonly this function is used for changing a particular MIDI
program number (instrument) associated with a channel. You need to know the byte count in the track of that parameter in order to
use this function,
EXAMPLE
midicopy.exe -trks 1,5 -from 2669 -to 8634 uzicko.mid fragment.mid Midicopy will copy tracks 1 and 5 starting from midi pulse position 2669
and ending at MIDI pulse position 8634.
SEE ALSO
abcmtex(1), abc2abc(1), abc2midi(1), midi2abc(1) ,yaps(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Seymour Shlien.
VERSION
This man page describes midicopy version 1.04 from September 19 2005.
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