1MIDICOPY(1) General Commands Manual MIDICOPY(1)
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6 midicopy - Copy selected track, channel, time interval of a MIDI file
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10 midicopy [-ver] [-trks n1,n2,..] [-chans n1,n2,...] [-from n (in
11 midi ticks)] [-to n (in midi ticks)] [-fromsec %f n (in seconds)]
12 [-tosec n (in seconds)] [-frombeat %f n (in beats)] [-tosec n (in
13 beats)] [-replace trk,loc,val] input.mid output.mid
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16 midicopy is used to copy part of a MIDI file to another MIDI file. You
17 can select a particular time interval, particular channels, and partic‐
18 ular tracks or any combinations. If one or both of the run time parame‐
19 ters -from or -to are included, the program returns the playing time in
20 seconds of the output file. Midicopy was developed by Seymour Shlien
21 from the midifilelib distribution available from http://www.harmony-
22 central.com/MIDI/midifilelib.tar.gz.
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25 -ver prints version number and then exits
26 -trks n
28 Selects the tracks to be copied where the track numbers start
29 from 1. If more than one track is specified, they should be
30 separated by commas. You should always copy track 1 since by
31 convention it contains information pertinent to all the other
32 tracks. By default all tracks are copied unless you specify par‐
33 ticular tracks using this run time parameter.
34 -chns n
36 Like above, it specifies the MIDI channels to be copied. By
37 default all channels are copied. Channel numbers also start from
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39 -from n
41 The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from midi pulse
42 number n. By default it will start from time zero or the begin‐
43 ning of the MIDI file.
44 -to n Stops copying all events after midi pulse number n. By default
46 the file is copied to the end.
47 -frombeat n
49 The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from quarter
50 beat number n. By default it will start from time zero or the
51 beginning of the MIDI file.
52 -tobeat n
54 Stops copying all events after quarter beat number n. By default
55 the file is copied to the end.
56 -fromsec n
58 The program will copy all MIDI commands starting from time n in
59 seconds.
60 -tosec n
62 Stops copying all events after time n in seconds. These two
63 options (-fromsec and -tosec) do not work accurately if the MIDI
64 file has more than one tempo command. Only the first one is used
65 for converting seconds into MIDI pulse units. It is therefore
66 preferable to use the -from and -to options.
67 -replace trk,loc,val
69 This option should be used alone. Midicopy will copy the entire
70 file verbatim except it will replace a byte by val, where the
71 byte is located in the specified track (trk) and specified posi‐
72 tion (loc). Commonly this function is used for changing a par‐
73 ticular MIDI program number (instrument) associated with a chan‐
74 nel. You need to know the byte count in the track of that
75 parameter in order to use this function,
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78 midicopy.exe -trks 1,5 -from 2669 -to 8634 uzicko.mid fragment.mid
79 Midicopy will copy tracks 1 and 5 starting from midi pulse position
80 2669 and ending at MIDI pulse position 8634.
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84 abcmtex(1), abc2abc(1), abc2midi(1), midi2abc(1) ,yaps[4m(1)
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87 This manual page was written by Seymour Shlien.
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90 This man page describes midicopy version 1.04 from September 19 2005.
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