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2 TiMidity++ -- MIDI-to-WAVE converter and player
7 version 2.13.0 or later
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16 TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by con-
17 verting them into PCM waveform data; give it a MIDI data along with
18 digital instrument data files, then it synthesizes them in real-time,
19 and plays. It can not only play sounds, but also can save the gener-
20 ated waveforms into hard disks as various audio file formats.
22 TiMidity++ is a free software, distributed under the terms of GNU gen-
27 TiMidity++ is based on TiMidity 0.2i, written by Tuukka Toivonen (He
28 discontinued development because he was too busy with work), released
29 on 1995. No new version of this original project is developed since
30 then. Development has been continued by Masanao Izumo et al. in the
31 new project named TiMidity++. `++' is to show the difference from
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38 * Plays MIDI files without any external MIDI instruments at all
39 * Understands following formats:
40 + SMF (Format 0, 1, 2)
42 + RCP, R36, G18, G36 (Recomposer formats)
43 + MFi (Version 3; Melody Format for i-Mode)
44 * Converts MIDI files into various audio file formats:
47 + Apple Interchange File Format (*.aiff)
48 + Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Speex (*.ogg)
49 + MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 (*.mp3) (note: Windows only)
50 * Uses following formats as digital instrument data
51 + Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files
53 + AIFF and WAV data (Some restrictions are there with AIFF/WAV)
54 * Displays information about the music that is now playing
55 * Various user interfaces:
56 + dumb terminal interface
59 + X Athena Widget interface
61 + Motif interface (runs with lesstif)
63 + Emacs front-end (type ``M-x timidity'' on your emacs)
64 + skin interface: can use WinAmp? skin (Seems not maintained...)
66 + ALSA sequencer interface
67 + Windows synthesizer interface
68 + Windows GUI interface
69 + Windows GUI synthesizer interface
70 + PortMIDI synthesizer interface
71 * Plays remote MIDI files over the network
75 * Plays MIDI files in archive files. Supported formats are:
76 + Tar archived (*.tar)
77 + Gzip'ed tar (*.tar.gz, *.tgz)
78 + Zip compressed (*.zip)
79 + LHa compressed lh0, lh1, lh2, lh3, lh4, lh5, lh6, lz4, lzs and lz5 (*.lzh)
80 * Displays sound spectrogram for the playing music
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87 The latest release of TiMidity++ are available at:
89 http://www.timidity.jp
91 http://timidity.sourceforge.net
92 The development goes on this site. Source codes here.
93 http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~gb7t-ngm/timidity/
95 http://timidity.s11.xrea.com/index.en.html
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102 Refer INSTALL file in the distribution.