OPTIONS
The following command line optinos are accepted by TiMid-
ity:
-A amplification
Multiplies the master volume by amplification %.
Default value is 70%. The grater number of ampli-
fication makes louder sounds. Range of the ampli-
fication is from 0 to 800%.
-a Turns on antialiasing. Samples are run through a
lowpass filter before playing, which reduces alias-
ing noise at low resampling frequencies.
-B fragments[,buffer-bits]
For the Linux / FreeBSD / OSS / ALSA / Windows
sound driver, selects the number of buffer frag-
ments in interactive mode. Increasing the number
of fragments may reduce choppiness when many pro-
cesses are running. It will make TiMidity seem to
respond sluggishly to fast forward, rewind, and
volume controls, and it will throw the status dis-
play off sync. Specify a fragments of 0 to use
the maximum number of fragments available.
-b mode
(obsoleted)
-C ratio
Sets the ratio of sampling and control frequencies.
This determines how often envelopes are recalcu-
lated -- small ratios yield better quality but use
more CPU time.
-c filename
Reads an extra configuration file.
-D channel
Marks channel as a drum channel. If channel is
negative, channel -channel is marked as an instru-
mental channel. If channel is 0, all channels are
marked as instrumental.
-d dir Specifies the directory contains installed dynamic-
link interface modules.
-e Make TiMidity evil. On Win32 version, this
increases the task priority by one. It can give
better playback when you switch tasks at the
expense of slowing all other tasks down.
-E mode
Set TiMidity extend modes. The following modes are
available (capitalized switch means disable this
feature):
w/W Enables/disables modulation controlling.
p/P Enables/disables portamento controlling.
v/V Enables/disables NRPM vibration.
r/R Enables/disables reverb effect controlling.
c/C Enables/disables chorus effect controlling.
c ratio
Sets the chorus effect value of all channels
to ratio.
s/S Enables/disables channel pressure control-
ling.
t/T Enables/disables tracing all Text Meta
Events.
o/O Accepts/rejects pronouncing multiple same
notes.
m HH Sets the manufacture ID to HH ( HH is the
two hex-digits ).
In addition if HH is GM/gm , GS/gs or XG/xg
that are same as to 41 , 43 and 7e.
B bank Sets the bank number of all channels to
bank.
-F Turns on fast panning to accommodate MIDI pieces
that expect panning adjustments to affect notes
that are already playing. Some files that don't
expect this have a habit of flipping balance
rapidly between left and right, which can cause
severe popping when the -F flag is used.
In current versions of TiMidity this option are
toggled.
-f Toggles fast envelopes. This option makes TiMidity
do fast but the release time of the notes are
shorten.
-g sec Open the Sound-Spectrogram window. This option is
activated if the system has support for X Window
System.
-h Show this help message.
-I voice[/c]
Uses the program number as the default instrument.
Any Program Change events in MIDI files will over-
ride this option.
If the voice followed by /c the default program
number of the channel c is specified by the voice.
-i interface
Selects the user interfaces from the compiled-in
alternatives. interface must be begun with one of
the supported interface identifiers. Run TiMidity
with the -h option to see a list. The following
identifiers may be available:
-id dumb interface
-in ncurses interface
-is slang interface
-ia X Ahtena Widget interface
-ik Tcl/Tk interface
-im motif interface
-iT vt100 interface
-ie Emacs interface (press M-x timidity on
Emacs)
-ii skin interface
Environment variable TIMIDITY_SKIN must be
specified with path of the skin data(com-
pressed data are also available).
-ig gtk interface
-ir Launch timidity as MIDI server.
-iA Launch timidity as ALSA sequencer client.
Interface options
Option characters may be added immediately
after the interface identifier. The follow-
ing options are recognized:
v Increases verbosity level. This option is
cumulative.
q Decreases verbosity level. This option is
cumulative.
t Toggles trace mode. In trace mode, TiMid-
ity attempts to display its current state
in real time. For the Linux sound driver,
this is accomplished through the use of
short DMA buffer fragments, which can be
tuned via the -B option.
l Loop playing (some interface ignore this
option)
r Randomize file list arguments before playing
s Sorting file list arguments before playing
-j This option enables to load the patch file while
playing.
-L directory
Adds directory to the library path. Patch, config-
uration, and MIDI files are searched along this
path. Directories added last will be searched
first. Note that the current directory is always
searched first before the library path.
-n degree
Enables Noise Shaping Filter. degree is from 0(min)
to 4(max).
-O mode
Selects the output mode from the compiled-in alter-
natives. mode must begin with one of the supported
output mode identifiers. Run TiMidity with the -h
option to see a list. The following identifiers
should be available in all versions:
-Od Outputs via audio device (default)
-Or Generate raw waveform data. All format
options are supported. Common formats
include:
-OrU uLaw
-Or1sl 16-bit signed linear PCM
-Or8ul 8-bit unsigned linear PCM
-Ou Generate Sun Audio (au) file
-Oa Genetate AIFF file
-Ow Generate RIFF WAVE format output. If output
is directed to a non-seekable file, or if
TiMidity is interrupted before closing the
file, the file header will contain
0xFFFFFFFF in the RIFF and data block length
fields. The popular sound conversion
utility sox is able to read such malformed
files, so you can pipe data directly to sox
for on-the-fly conversion to other formats.
Format options
Option characters may be added immediately
after the mode identifier to change the out-
put format. The following options are rec-
ognized:
8 8-bit sample width
1 6-bit sample width
l Linear encoding
U uLaw (8-bit) encoding
M Monophonic
S Stereo
s Signed output
u Unsigned output
x Byte-swapped output
Note that some options have no effect on some
modes. For example, you cannot generate a byte-
swapped RIFF WAVE file, or force uLaw output on a
Linux PCM device.
-o filename
Place output on filename, which may be a file,
device, or HP-UX audio server, depending on the
output mode selected with the -O option. The spe-
cial filename ``-'' causes output to be placed on
stdout.
-p voices
Sets polyphony (maximum number of simultaneous
voices) to voices.
-Q channel
Causes channel to be quiet. If channel is nega-
tive, channel -channel is turned back on. If chan-
nel is 0, all channels are turned on.
-R msec
Enables Pseudo Reverb Mode. msec are envelope
release time.
-r This options causes another reverb effects.
-S size
Sets the re-sample cache size to size bytes. If
size equals to 0 any sample caches are disabled.
Default value of size is 2097152(2MB).
-s frequency
Sets the resampling frequency(Hz or kHz). Not all
sound devices are capable of all frequencies -- an
approximate frequency may be selected, depending on
the implementation.
-t code
Sets output coding of Japanese text. code are the
following:
auto determined by LANG environment variable.
ascii Transrates non-ascii code to period.
euc Outputs by EUC(Japan) coding.
jis Outputs by JIS coding.
sjis Outputs by SJIS coding.
-U Instructs TiMidity to unload all instruments from
memory between MIDI files. This can reduce memory
requirements when playing many files in succession.
-w mode
Extend mode for MS-Windows. The following options
are available:
-wr Use rcpcv.dll to play RCP/R36 files.
-wR Not use rcpcv.dll (default).
-W mode
Play with WRD file. mode are the follwing:
x X Window System mode
t TTY mode
d Dumb mode (outputs WRD events directry)
- not traces WRD
WRD mode must be with trace mode(option -i?t) or timing of
WRD events are terrible.
-WR[opts]
Sets WRD options:
a1=b1,a2=b2, ...
Sets the WRD options. an is the name of
option and bn is the value.
d="n" Emulates timing(@WAIT,@WMODE) bugs of the
original MIMPI player. The emulate level is
following:
-WRd=0 not emulates any bugs of MIMPI
-WRd=1 only emulates some bugs (default)
-WRd=2 emulates all known bugs
F="filename"
Uses filename as WRD file only
(input-file-name):r.wrd (like csh syntax) is
not available.
f="filename"
Uses filername as WRD file.
-x string
Configure TiMidity by the string. The format of
string is the same as timidity.cfg.
For example:
-x'bank 0\n0 violin.pat'
Sets the instrument number 0 to violin.
Character \(Ascii 0x5c) in the string is treated as
escape character like C literal. For example \n is
treated as carridge return.
-Z file
Causes the table of frequencies to be read from
file. This is useful to define a tuning different
from the occidental temperate scale.