midid(1)

🌸 midid(1) — the raw MIDI interpreter, bestie edition 🎹

okay so picture this: it's a General Commands Manual kind of day, the manual name is midid, and she's here to read your raw MIDI data and make it do something cute. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

midid — Raw Midi interpreter. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

midid [OPTIONS] [input_file]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

this manual page documents briefly the midid command. brief but iconic, yk?

so midid reads STDIN or input_file and interprets it as raw MIDI data according to the General Midi standard. no cap, it just gets it.

then the General Midi data gets sent to a sound device (that's the default, main character behavior), or to a .MID file, or to timidity(1) if you specify it. pick your fighter ✨

and here's the slay part: midid includes a standalone mode for timidity(1) — midid will then attempt to start and configure timidity(1) itself for you. it literally does the whole thing so you don't have to 🫶

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⭐ 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. works only if input_file isn't STDIN. she lingers 😌
• -g, --emulate-gm — selects GM mode (default, the standard queen 👑)
• -m, --emulate-mt — selects MT32 mode
• -d device, --device=device — comma-separated list of devices to use for output
• -l, --list-devices — lists devices. window shopping fr
• -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. zero means she's independent 💀

🧚 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. one channel, one vibe 🍓
• -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.

⚠️ heads up bestie: in capture mode you won't hear any sound. it's giving silent disco 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

timidity(1) — go say hi, she's the whole plug 🔌

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

midid is brought to you by:

• 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>

and this manual page was written by Francois Wendling <frwendling@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). she did that 💅✨

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okay that's the whole page, and one last lil sign-off before you go: this beauty is dated 2008-08-28 and comes to you straight from the midid(1) manual page, General Commands Manual, living her best Debian life. mwah, bye bestie 🫶🌸💖