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FMMIDI(1) General Commands Manual FMMIDI(1)

NAME fmmidi - Play Standard MIDI music file(s) by emulating a Yamaha YM2608 FM synthesizer

SYNOPSIS fmmidi [-BL] [-s rate] [-S rate] [-l times] [-D driver] [-o file] [-a device] [-V] [-h] [files ...]

DESCRIPTION fmmidi is a player for Standard MIDI music file(s). It emulates the Yamaha YM2608 FM synthesizer and it uses this emulation to play the musics in MIDI format.

 Many MIDI players since the late 1990s do not use (or emulate) FM
 synthesis and instead use prerecorded samples for instruments. These are
 called "wavetable" players.

 fmmidi on the other hand, emulating FM synthesis, generates sound waves
 at real time.  This makes music played using fmmidi sound more electronic
 compared to when it is played using wavetable players.

 fmmidi implements the MIDI specification up to the Yamaha XG commands.

OPTIONS -B Set mode where the player does not accept Yamaha XG commands. This feature is "broken" but the sound generated when in this mode may be of interest.

 -L      Loop the music forever.

 -s rate
         rate at which the sound output is generated. (default: 44100)

 -S rate
         rate at which the sound output is played. When this option is not
         specified, this is equal to the rate at which the sound output is
         generated.

 -l times
         Loop the music times times.

 -D driver
         (libao version only) Specify the libao driver used to play the
         music.  To display a list of available libao drivers, specify
         list as driver.

 -o file
         (libao version only) Specify the file that will be used to store
         the sound data output. By default, the WAV format will be used,
         except when dumping to standard output ( `-' ) where sound data
         will be output raw.

 -a      (bsdaudio and qnx versions only) Specify audio device (bsdaudio
         default: /dev/audio, qnx default: 0:0)

 -V      Display program version

 -h      Display program help

HISTORY The original program was written in C++ for Windows by yuno in 2004.

 A version for the Mac OS X operating system, along with a version
 converted to the Java programming language, followed some time later. All
 these versions used a graphical user interface.


 The source code for the Mac OS X version was obtained by nextvolume in
 early 2015 and a simple command line interface was developed by him
 around the core parts that composed the original fmmidi program.

BUGS The drum emulation is currently somewhat broken.

AUTHORS nextvolume (Giuseppe Gatta) (tails92@gmail.com)

 yuno (Yoshio Uno) (yuno@users.sourceforge.jp)

WEBPAGE http://unhaut.x10host.com/fmmidi

                             May 26, 2016

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