The KMidi Handbook: Usage
Description: KMidi Midi Player Timidity Midi To Wav
Keywords: KMidi Midi Player Timidity Midi to Wav

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### 3. Usage

### 3.1 General Usage

Simply click on the "eject" button to open the playlist manager. Select a midi file by double clicking on it. For your convenience I have included a few midi files in the midis directory of the distribution. For real usage you will need to get yourself a full general midi set of patches.

### 3.2 Midi file names

KMidi will replace any '_' in the midi file name by spaces and curtail the .mid .MID ending if present.

### 3.3 Command Line Options

> `

>     wuebben: ./kmidi -h
>      KMidi version 0.3  MIDI to WAVE player/converter
>      Copyright (C) 1995 Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben@math.cornell.edu>

>      KMidi is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

>     Usage:
>       kmidi [options] filename [...]

>     Options:
>       -o file Output to another file (or device) (Use "-" for stdout)
>       -O mode Select output mode and format (see below for list)
>       -s f    Set sampling frequency to f (Hz or kHz)
>       -a      Enable the antialiasing filter
>       -f      Disable fast decay mode
>       -p n    Allow n-voice polyphony
>       -A n    Amplify volume by n percent (may cause clipping)
>       -C n    Set ratio of sampling and control frequencies

>       -L dir  Append dir to search path
>       -c file Read extra configuration file
>       -I n    Use program n as the default
>       -P file Use patch file for all programs
>       -D n    Play drums on channel n
>       -Q n    Ignore channel n
>       -F      Enable fast panning
>       -U      Unload instruments from memory between MIDI files

>       -i mode Select user interface (see below for list)
>       -B n    Set number of buffer fragments
>       -h      Display this help message

>     Available output modes (-O option):

>       -Od     Linux dsp device
>       -Ow     RIFF WAVE file
>       -Or     raw waveform data

>     Output format options (append to -O? option):

>        `8'    8-bit sample width
>        `1'    16-bit sample width
>        `U'    uLaw encoding
>        `l'    linear encoding
>        `M'    monophonic
>        `S'    stereo
>        `s'    signed output
>        `u'    unsigned output
>        `x'    byte-swapped output

>     Available interfaces (-i option):

>       -iq     kmidi qt  interface
>       -id     dumb interface

>     Interface options (append to -i? option):

>        `v'    more verbose (cumulative)
>        `q'    quieter (cumulative)
>        `t'    trace playing

> `

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