wildmidi.cfg(5)

💖 wildmidi.cfg — the config file for libWildMidi 💖

okay bestie, listen. this is wildmidi.cfg(5), the manpage for the WildMidi Config File. it lives in section 5 of your manual, it belongs to libWildMidi, and it's literally the vibe-setting document for how WildMIDI finds and plays its patches. no cap. 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

wildmidi.cfg — Config file for libWildMidi

📚 LIBRARY 📚

libWildMidi

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This file holds the patch configuration for libWildMidi, plus the location of your Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files. it's giving "map of where all the sounds live". 🗺️✨

here's what a config can look like, fr fr:

dir ~/guspats/

source /etc/wildmidi.cfg

bank 0
0 acpiano.pat amp=110 env_time4=300
1 brpiano.pat amp=100

drumset 0
25 snarerol keep=env amp=225 note=60
26 snap   note=65

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🌈 SYNTAX 🌈

okay so here's every directive you can drop in there. take notes bestie 📝💅

• guspat_editor_author_cant_read_so_fix_release_time_for_me — some patch file editors switch the 4th and 5th envelopes around, which makes the sound play much longer than intended in players that stuck to the Gravis Ultrasound patch standard. including this option in the config enables a fix that detects this oversight, playing the sound samples as if they were correct. 🩹

NOTE: This is a global setting. If it is found to affect good patch samples it will be moved to a per patch setting in a future version.

• auto_amp — forces WildMIDI to amplify samples to their maximum level, ignoring the amp=% in the patch lines of the config. 📢
• auto_amp_with_amp — forces WildMIDI to amplify samples to their maximum level, then apply the amp=% in the patch lines of the config. 📢➕
• dir dir-name — changes the search path for config and patch files to dir-name. this one is specific to the current config file and gets carried to any included config file — unless those included files have their own dir setting. any included file that has its own dir setting does not affect the dir setting of the current config file. no take-backs. 🧭
• source include-confg — include the settings from include-config. any patch already set will be over-ridden by the included config file. yes bestie, it goes full main character and replaces your stuff. 👑
• bank N — the patches following this setting belong to MIDI instrument bank N. 🏦
• drumset N — the patches following this setting belong to MIDI drum bank N. 🥁
• patchno patchfile [amp=volume] [note=miodinte] [keep=loop] [keep=env] [remove=sustain] [remove=clamped] [env_level[0-5]=level] [env_time[0-5]=time]

example: 0 acpiano.pat amp=110

and here's the breakdown of every piece, because you deserve to know 💖:

• patchno — this is the MIDI patch number the instrument belongs to. 🔢
• patchfile — the filename of the Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch file. if the filename is missing the .pat extension, libWildMidi will add .pat when attempting to load the file. it's very forgiving like that 🫶
• amp=volume — force the volume of the samples in this patch to volume% prior to using it. 🔉
• note=midinote — use note midinote when playing the samples in this patch.

NOTE: this is for instruments listed under drumset.

• keep=loop — play the samples in this patch with the loop, when normally we would not for this instrument. 🔁
• keep=env — use the envelope data in this patch, when normally we wouldn't for this instrument. 📈
• remove=sustain — Do note hold the note after the 3rd envelope until note off, which is what happens if the sustain bit is set in the patch file. ✋
• remove=clamped — do not jump to the 6th envelope on note off, which is what happens if the clamped bit is set in the patch file. 🚫
• env_level[0-5]=level — set the envelope level to level, with 1.0 being maximum and 0.0 being minimum.

example: set 5th envelope level to 10% — env_level[0-5]=0.1

• env_time[0-5]=time — set the envelope time to time with a resolution of 1/1000th of a second. this setting is the time it should take for the envelope to reach maximum level. ⏱️

example: set 1st envelope time to 1sec — env_time0=1000

example: set 3rd envelope time to 0.5secs — env_time2=500

• reverb_room_width fval — set the room width for the reverb engine in meters. fval is a float value in meters. minimum setting is 1.0 meter, maximum setting is 100.0 meters, and default is 15.0 meters. 🏟️✨

example: set room width to 30 meters — reverb_room_width 30

• reverb_room_length fval — set the room length for the reverb engine in meters. fval is a float value in meters. minimum setting is 1.0 meter, maximum setting is 100.0 meters, and default is 20.0 meters. 📏

example: set room length to 40 meters — reverb_room_length 40

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• wildmidi(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Chris Ison <wildcode@users.sf.net> Bret Curtis <psi29a@gmail.com>

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) Chris Ison 2001-2010 Copyright (C) Bret Curtis 2013-2016

This file is part of WildMIDI.

WildMIDI is free software: you can redistribute and/or modify the player under the terms of the GNU General Public License and you can redistribute and/or modify the library under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the licenses, or (at your option) any later version.

WildMIDI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License along with WildMIDI. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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and that's the whole thing bestie 💖 this was wildmidi.cfg(5) from 10 March 2016 — go forth and configure your patches, you absolute icon 🎀✨🦋