-8
-
force the use of 8-bit patches with the gravis ultrasound to
conserve memory. Patches are automatically reloaded as 8-bit when memory
runs out, but if you know in advance, you can save a step and speed up
the loading process.
-c#
-
set the channel mask (in hexidecimal) of which channels to
play from the midi file. This is useful if you have a midi file with
some channels that don't sound very good on your hardware.
-d
-
ignore any drum (percussion) tracks in a midi file. (See also
-m#
). This is useful for FM or any other
hardware where percussion sounds especially bad. Also useful for midi
files where the percussion is poorly written.
-e
-
send output to external midi. This is what you'll want to do
if you have any midi hardware connected to your system. This option is
the default for playmidi as distributed.
-f
-
send output to fm synth using fm patches. You'll need to use
this option to playback on any non-midi soundcard with the exception of
the gravis ultrasound.
-4
-
send output to fm synth using 4-op OPL/3 patches (BROKEN!)
Don't use this option since it doesn't work yet.
-g
-
send output to Gravis Ultrasound. If you have a gravis
ultrasound without anything connected to the midi port, this option is
for you.
-E#
-
set mask of channels to always output to external midi. If you
want to use more than one playback device, this option allows you to
specify what channels to send to the external midi port. For example,
00FF would send channels 1 - 8 to external midi.
-F#
-
set mask of channels to always output to fm. Used as
above.
-G#
-
set mask of channels to always output to gus. Used as
above.
-i#
-
set the channel mask (in hexidecimal) of which channels to
ignore from the midi file. This option is good for midi files with a few
channels you don't want to listen to.
-m#
-
set the channel mask (in hexidecimal) of which channels to
consider percussion channels. See also -d
This option is good for midi files that don't conform to the
default percussion arrangement of playmidi. GM standard specifies
percussion in channel 10 only. Some files disobey that requiring this
setting.
-o#
-
forces output to a given synth number (0-4). This option is
old and obsolete. Don't use it. It's probably been removed by the time
you read this.
-p[chan,]prog[,chan,prog...]
-
forces a given program number (1-128) to be used for all
output on given channel, or if no channel is specified, program will be
used for all channels. For example: -p33
sets
all channels to program 33, -p5,124
sets just
channel 5 to program 124, and
-p1,33,2,55,9,22,10,17
sets channel 1 to program
33, channel 2 to program 55, channel 9 to program 22, and channel 10
(percussive) to use the Power Drum Set. If you're using a Waveblaster,
you'll want to use -p10,129
to set channel 10 to
playback percussion. You should quote arguments to
-p
if you want to include whitespace between
them.
-I
-
shows a list general midi programs and numbers. This is
intended to make it easier to use the above option.
-t#
-
skews tempo by a factor (float). This is good for files you
think the author wrote too slow or two fast. Also good if you want to
listen to lots of files at high-speeds, or play a file at slow speeds in
order to learn to play a song on some instrument (like piano).
-r
-
real time ansi (25-line) playback graphics tracking of all
notes on each channel and the current playback clock. This flag is
assumed when using xplaymidi or splaymidi.
-P#
-
remap all percussion channels to play on given channel. This
is useful if you have a file with percussion on multiple midi channels
and your midi hardware only supports percussion on one channel. For
example -P10
would send all percussion channels
to channel 10.
-R#
-
set initial reverb level. Valid range is 0 - 127. For fm, the
setting is either "on" (nonzero), or "off"
(zero).
-C#
-
set initial chorus level. Valid range is 0 - 127.
-Vchn,vel[,chn,vel...]
-
set velocity for all notes in a channel. All velocity
information for the given channel will be replaced by the given
velocity. One day I'll change this option to allow all channels to be
modified as with the -p
option.
-x#
-
excludes the given channel number from the mask of channels to
load from the midi file.
-z
-
zero channel data in output stream -- for special
applications.