debian man page for midid

midid(1)						      General Commands Manual							  midid(1)

NAME
       midid - Raw Midi interpreter

SYNOPSIS
       midid [OPTIONS] [input_file]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the midid command.

       midid reads STDIN or input_file and interprets it as raw MIDI data according to the General Midi standard.

       The General Midi data is sent to a sound device (default), a .MID file, or to timidity(1) if you specify it.

       midid includes a standalone mode for timidity(1): midid will then attempt to start and configure timidity(1) itself for you.

OPTIONS
   Standard options
       -o seconds--timeout=seconds
	      Turns output off after seconds  of inactivity. (default: 0 - no timeout)

       -r,--resident
	      Stays resident ; doesn't stop at the end of file. It works only if input_file isn't STDIN.

       -g,--emulate-gm
	      Selects GM mode (default).

       -m,--emulate-mt
	      Selects MT32 mode.

       -d device,--device=device
	      Comma-separated list of devices to use for output.

       -l,--list-devices
	      Lists devices.

       -h     Displays a help message.

   Options for .MID file output device
       -f,--file filename
	      Sets the .MID output filename. Default: midid.mid.

       -t bpm,--tempo=bpm
	      Sets the tempo (beats/minute). Default: 120.

       -q tickrate,--tick-rate=tickrate
	      Sets the number of ticks/quarter note. Default: 144.

   Options for timidity(1) client
       -s server,--server-name=server,
	      Sets the timidity(1) server host name. Default: localhost.

       -p port,--port=port
	      Sets  the  timidity(1)  server  control port.  Default: 0. Specifying 0 enables the standalone mode: midid will attempt to start and
	      configure timidity(1) itself.

   Options for using standalone mode with timidity(1)
       -B path,--timidity-bin=path
	      Sets the timidity binary path.

       -A args,--timidity-args=args
	      Specifies some extra arguments to pass to timidity(1) . Default:	-EFreverb=0 -EFchorus=0 -EFresamp=1 -EFvlpf=0 -EFns=0.

       -M,--timidity-mono
	      Tells timidity(1) to produce mono sound instead of stereo.

       -L,--timidity-low
	      Tells timidity(1) to produce the low-q 8bit sound instead of the 16bit.

       -U,--timidity-uns
	      Tells timidity(1) to produce the unsigned samples instead of the signed ones.

       -F rate,--timidity-freq=rate
	      Sets the sampling rate for timidity(1).

       -C,--timidity-capture
	      Enables the capturing mode: the data produced by timidity(1) gets captured by midid and forwarded to  stdout.  You  won't  hear  any
	      sound in that mode.

SEE ALSO
       timidity(1)

AUTHORS
       midid is:

       Copyright (c) 1997 R.Nijlunsing <rutger@null.net>

       Copyright (c) 2002 Robert Komar <rkomar@telus.net>

       Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Stas Sergeev <stsp@users.sourceforge.net>

       This manual page was written by Francois Wendling <frwendling@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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