1Playmidi 2.3 Quick Start Instructions 2===================================== 3 4Be sure to read the REAME.1ST for install instructions. This file 5explains all of the options for running playmidi, and options while 6playmidi is running. A better manpage will be written in a future 7release. 8 9My personal preferred options for playmidi and explanations thereof: 10 11playmidi -rR111 -C111 -D0 ~ftp/midi/gmidi/General_MIDI/CLASSIC/*.mid 12 | | | | | 13 | | | | | 14 | | | | list of files to play 15 | | | my system has 3 midi interfaces, use first one 16 | | initial midi chorus value of 111 (scale 0-127, 0=off) 17 | initial midi reverb value of 111 (scale is 0-127, 0=off) 18 real time playback graphics (assumed for splaymidi/xplaymidi) 19 20Version specific features: 21 22playmidi -r example playback screen: 23----------------------------------- 24 instrument name 25 | Percussion channel 26 | | song timer 27 | | | 28mar pic flu bas cla eng fre tro tru ORC syn tub tim mar syn gun 13:25.5 29 30 Playmidi 2.3 31G5 G5 G5 by 32 Nathan Laredo 33 34Eb7 Eb7 1812.mid 35 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 30 tracks 36Eb3 Eb3 Eb3 37 sna skew=1.00 38 Adapted and Se 39 Bb6 Robert C. Good 40 Bb4 Bb4 1995 41 42 G6 Violins 43 G4 G4 Sostennuto Str 44 Tremolo String 45 cym Violas 46Eb6 Cellos 47 Eb4 Eb4 Basses 48 Guns 49 1812 OVERTURE 50 by P. I. Tscha 51 | 52 | 53 Text events 54 55Left Arrow and Right Arrow change skew (warp playback speed) 56Up Arrow repeats current song 57Page Up skips to previous song 58Q, ^C or ESC will exit 59^L or ^R will repaint screen 60Any key other than above will skip to next song 61 62xplaymidi display: 63------------------ 64 65xplaymidi does not require -r option, xplaymidi may be used with -v option 66to echo text events to controlling terminal (usually xterm). 67 68X interface is fairly intuitive, no keyboard commands are required or 69implemented (with the exception of control-s to search the file text events) 70Application defaults may be changed to bind keys to buttons if desired. 71 72Enjoy, and as always if you like this program, please send me email 73and let me know that you are using it. It encourages me to make future 74more frequent releases with more enhancements. If you find any bugs 75not listed in the BUGS file, please let me know. 76 77If you have trouble with a specific midi file that another player can 78play and playmidi has trouble with, please email me the name of the file, 79I have a collection of over 15000 midi files so chances are i have the 80file already and there's no need for you to send me a uuencoded file 81to debug with. Playmidi can handle some pretty nastily corrupted 82midi files, but it may seg fault on others, I'm working on that too. 83 84Join the new playmidi mailing list: 85e-mail "subscribe linux-playmidi" to majordomo@majordomo.nether.net 86 87You'll find announcements for new and testing versions, as well as 88a good forum for communicating with other playmidi users. 89 90Nathan Laredo 91laredo@gnu.org 92 93PS. HAVE FUN! 94PPS. If you really want to make my day, send me a postcard from wherever 95 you live and use playmidi. 96 mail: PSC#1, Box 709, 2401 Kelly Drive, Lackland AFB, TX 78236-5128 USA 97