NAME
midicopy - Copy selected track, channel, time interval of a MIDI file
to another MIDI file
SYNOPSIS
midicopy [-ver] [-trks 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)] [-tosec n (in
beats)] [-replace trk,loc,val] input.mid output.mid
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-ver prints version number and then exits
-trks n
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.
-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,
EXAMPLE
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.
SEE ALSO
abcmtex(1), abc2abc(1), abc2midi(1), midi2abc(1) ,yaps(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Seymour Shlien.
VERSION
This man page describes midicopy version 1.04 from September 19 2005.