1Playmidi 2.3 Quick Start Instructions
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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:
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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:
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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