midicopy - Copy selected track, channel, time interval of a MIDI file to another
MIDI file
midicopy [
-ver] [
-trks n1,n2,..] [
-xtrks
n1,n2,..] [
-xchns n1,n2,..] [
-chans
n1,n2,...] [
-from n (in midi ticks)] [
-to n
(in midi ticks)] [
-fromsec %f n (in seconds)]
[
-tosec n (in seconds)] [
-frombeat %f n (in
beats)] [
-tobeat n (in beats)] [
-replace
trk,loc,val] [
-tempo %n] [
-speed %f] [
-drumfocus
n m] [-mutenodrum [%d]]
[-setdrumloudness n m]
[-focusontrack n1,n2,... (from 1)]
[-focusonchannel n1,n2,... (from 1)]
[-attenuation n] [-nobends]
[-indrums n1,n2,...] [-xdrums
n1,n2,...] [-onlydrums] [-nodrums]
input.mid output.mid
midicopy is used to copy part of a MIDI file to another MIDI file. You
can select a particular time interval, particular channels, and particular
tracks or any combinations. If one or both of the run time parameters -from or
-to are included, the program returns the playing time in seconds of the
output file. Midicopy was developed by Seymour Shlien from the midifilelib
distribution available from
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/midifilelib.tar.gz.
- -ver
- prints version number and then exits
- -trks n1,n2, etc
- Selects the tracks to be copied where the track numbers
start from 1. If more than one track is specified, they should be
separated by commas. You should always copy track 1 since by convention it
contains information pertinent to all the other tracks. By default all
tracks are copied unless you specify particular tracks using this run time
parameter.
- -xtrks n1,n2, etc
- Lists the tracks to exclude from copying. All other tracks
are copied. This option does not work in combination with -trks.
- -xchns n1,n2, etc
- Lists the channels to exclude from copying. All other
channels are copied. This option does not work in combination with
-chns.
- -chns n
- Like above, it specifies the MIDI channels to be copied. By
default all channels are copied. Channel numbers also start from 1.
- -from n
- The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from midi
pulse number n. By default it will start from time zero or the beginning
of the MIDI file.
- -to n
- Stops copying all events after midi pulse number n. By
default the file is copied to the end.
- -frombeat n
- The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from
quarter beat number n. By default it will start from time zero or the
beginning of the MIDI file.
- -tobeat n
- Stops copying all events after quarter beat number n. By
default the file is copied to the end.
- -fromsec n
- The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from time
n in seconds.
- -tosec n
- Stops copying all events after time n in seconds. These two
options (-fromsec and -tosec) do not work accurately if the MIDI file has
more than one tempo command. Only the first one is used for converting
seconds into MIDI pulse units. It is therefore preferable to use the -from
and -to options.
- -replace trk,loc,val
- This option should be used alone. Midicopy will copy the
entire file verbatim except it will replace a byte by val, where the byte
is located in the specified track (trk) and specified position (loc).
Commonly this function is used for changing a particular MIDI program
number (instrument) associated with a channel. You need to know the byte
count in the track of that parameter in order to use this function,
- -tempo quarter notes/minute
- All tempo indications in the midi file will be replaced
with the above value.
- -speed factor
- All tempo indications in the midi file will be multiplied
with this factor. Values greater than 1.0 will speed up the music while
lower values slow the music. The factor is a floating point value.
- -drumfocus drum-code excluded_drum_velocities
- The selected drum line (specified by the drum-code pitch
value) is highlighted by reducing the loudness of all other drum lines to
the excluded_drum_velocities value. The drum-code value must be in the
range of 35 to 81 inclusive.
- -mutenodrum [level]
- All channels which are not 9 (drum channel) are attenuated
to the given level. If level is not specified, it is assumed to be
zero.
- -setdrumloudness n m
- where n is between 35 to 81 inclusive and m is the loudness
between 0 and 127. The loudness of all instances of drum n are changed to
m.
- -focusontrack n1,n2,...
- The velocities of notes in all tracks except n are
attenuated.
- -focusonchannel n1,n2,...
- The velocities of notes in all channels except n are
attenuated.
- -attenuation n
- Specifies the amount the note velocities are reduced by
either -focusontracks or -focusonchannels. Current default is 70.
- -nobends
- Suppresses all channel pitchbend commands.
- -indrums n1,n2,...
- Only allow percussions with codes n1,n2,...
- -xdrums n1,n2,...
- Exclude the percussions with codes n1,n2,...
- -onlydrums
- Only copy the percussion channel.
- -nodrums
- Copy all channels except the percussion channel.
midicopy.exe -trks 1,5 -from 2669 -to 8634 uzicko.mid fragment.mid
Midicopy will copy tracks 1 and 5 starting from midi pulse position 2669 and
ending at MIDI pulse position 8634.
abcmtex(1),
abc2abc(1),
abc2midi(1),
midi2abc(1)
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This manual page was written by Seymour Shlien.
This man page describes midicopy version 1.33 from December 22 2019.