MIDISH(1) BSD General Commands Manual MIDISH(1)NAME
midish -- MIDI sequencer and filter
SYNOPSIS
midish [-bhv]
DESCRIPTION
Midish is a MIDI sequencer/filter implemented as an interactive command-line interpreter (users wanting to use midish interactively may con-
sider using the rmidish(1) utility). Here are some of its features:
o Multiple MIDI devices handling
o Synchronisation to external MIDI devices
o Filtering/routing (controller mapping, keyboard splitting, ...)
o Track recording, editing, quatisation
o Import and export of standard MIDI files
o Tempo and time-signature changes, user configurable metronome
o System exclusive messages handling
The options are as follows:
-b Do not process $HOME/.midishrc or /etc/midishrc and stop on the first error on the standard input. Useful for scripting
-h Print usage information.
-v Print additionnal info before each line of input, useful to front-ends and for dubugging.
Once midish started, the interpreter processes the $HOME/.midishrc file (or /etc/midishrc if the later dosn't exist) and starts prompting for
commands. For further information about the syntax of midish refer to the ``Midish user's manual''.
FILES
$HOME/.midishrc startup script
/etc/midishrc startup script (if $HOME/.midishrc doesn't exist)
/dev/rmidiN midi(4) devices used by midish
SEE ALSO rmidish(1), smfplay(1), midiplay(1), midi(4)
User's manual and tutorial
http://caoua.org/midish/
BSD June 25, 2006 BSD
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ARECORDMIDI(1) General Commands Manual ARECORDMIDI(1)NAME
arecordmidi - record Standard MIDI Files
SYNOPSIS
arecordmidi -p client:port[,...] [options] midifile
DESCRIPTION
arecordmidi is a command-line utility that records a Standard MIDI File from one or more ALSA sequencer ports.
To stop recording, press Ctrl+C.
OPTIONS -h,--help
Prints a list of options.
-V,--version
Prints the current version.
-l,--list
Prints a list of possible input ports.
-p,--port=client:port,...
Sets the sequencer port(s) from which events are recorded.
A client can be specified by its number, its name, or a prefix of its name. A port is specified by its number; for port 0 of a
client, the ":0" part of the port specification can be omitted.
-b,--bpm=beats
Sets the musical tempo of the MIDI file, in beats per minute. The default value is 120 BPM.
-f,--fps=frames
Sets the SMPTE resolution, in frames per second. Possible values are 24, 25, 29.97 (for 30 drop-frame), and 30.
-t,--ticks=ticks
Sets the resolution of timestamps (ticks) in the MIDI file, in ticks per beat (when using musical tempo) or ticks per frame (when
using SMPTE timing). The default value is 384 ticks/beat or 40 ticks/frame, respectively.
-s,--split-channels
Specifies that the data for each MIDI channel should be written to a separate track in the MIDI file. This will result in a "format
1" file. Otherwise, when there is only one track, arecordmidi will generate a "format 0" file.
-m,--metronome=client:port
Plays a metronome signal on the specified sequencer port.
Metronome sounds are played on channel 10, MIDI notes 33 & 34 (GM2/GS/XG metronome standard notes), with velocity 100 and duration
1.
-i,--timesig=numerator:denominator
Sets the time signature for the MIDI file and metronome.
The time signature is specified as usual with two numbers, representing the numerator and denominator of the time signature as it
would be notated. The denominator must be a power of two. Both numbers should be separated by a colon. The time signature is 4:4 by
default.
AUTHOR
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
17 Sep 2007 ARECORDMIDI(1)