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MIDISH(1) General Commands Manual MIDISH(1)

midishMIDI sequencer and filter

midish [-bhv]

Midish is a MIDI sequencer/filter implemented as an interactive command-line interpreter (users wanting to use midish interactively may consider using the rmidish(1) utility). Here are some of its features:

  • Multiple MIDI devices handling
  • Synchronisation to external MIDI devices
  • Filtering/routing (controller mapping, keyboard splitting, ...)
  • Track recording, editing, quatisation
  • Import and export of standard MIDI files
  • Tempo and time-signature changes, user configurable metronome
  • System exclusive messages handling

The options are as follows:

Do not process $HOME/.midishrc or /etc/midishrc and stop on the first error on the standard input. Useful for scripting
Print usage information.
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”.

$HOME/.midishrc
startup script
/etc/midishrc
startup script (if $HOME/.midishrc doesn't exist)
/dev/rmidiN
midi(4) devices used by midish

rmidish(1), smfplay(1), midiplay(1), midi(4)
User's manual and tutorial
http://caoua.org/midish/

June 25, 2006 Debian