timidity (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

TiMidity++ – MIDI-to-WAVE converter and player

SYNOPSIS

timidity [options] filename […]

DESCRIPTION

TiMidity++ is a converter that converts some of MIDI files (supported formats: Standard MIDI files (*.mid), Recomposer files (*.rcp, *.r36, *.g18, *.g36) and Module files (*.mod)) into formatted audio files (e.g. RIFF WAVE). TiMidity++ uses Gravis Ultrasound-compatible patch files or Soundfonts (*.sfx, *.sf2) to generate digital audio data from MIDI files. The digital audio data generated by TiMidity++ can be stored in a file for processing, or played in real time through an audio device.
In real time playing, TiMidity++ can show the lyrics contained in KAR or WRD files.

FILENAME

You can use the following expressions as the filename argument:

–

Read a MIDI file from standard input.

path/filename

Read a MIDI file from the specified path on a filesystem.

dir:directory

directory/

Read and play all MIDI files in the specified directory. For example,

% timidity some/where/

plays all files in the directory some/where/.

Archive File

Extract and play the file(s) in the archive. If you want to specify a certain MIDI file in the archive, append #<MIDI-filename> to the archive name. The path after `#’ allows the use of the wildcard expressions (case insensitive).
You can use escape sequence