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Adagio, etc. for Linux -- Release 0.3, March, 1993
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Here are some Linux programs for playing on an fm sound card using
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Hannu Savolainen's sound driver for Linux. Both midi files and
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Adagio scores can be played. Adagio is the scoring language used by
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the CMU CMT package by Roger Dannenberg. Much of the program code
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here, in fact, is from the CM Toolkit. Other code I took from Tim
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Thompson's Midifiles library as enhanced by M. Czeiszperger, and the
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code for playing fm is taken from "fmplay" by Hannu Savolainen.
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(1) mp plays midi files or converts them to adagio scores.
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(2) ad plays a .gio adagio score, or with the -m flag sends
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midi track information to stdout (save that in a file
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and convert it to a midi file with the tracks utility).
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(3) tracks
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adds header information to one or more files
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created with "ad -m" to form a standard midi file.
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Output is to stdout.
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(4) fmkeys
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plays from a keyboard connected to the external midi port.
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(5) mt disassembles midi files.
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(6) tm assembles one or more midi disassemblies produced by mt.
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(7) setsb
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loads program libraries down to the sound driver.
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Installation:
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Check "DESTDIR" in the Makefile, and also the XSELECT and PSELECT
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defines; then "make install". Copy the files "std.sb" and "drums.sb"
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to the /etc directory and use "setsb" to load the voices into the
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sound card driver. For other options and details, see the INSTALL
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document.
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Availability of related stuff:
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Tim Thompson's Midifiles library was posted to rec.music.synth and
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is available by ftp from ucsd.edu as midi/software/unix/midifiles.tar.Z.
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(But the version included here has been modified by M. Czeiszperger
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and me.)
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The CMT manual, which describes the conventions of Adagio scores,
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was posted to rec.music.synth, and along with the rest of the CMT
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package is available by ftp from ucsd.edu as:
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midi/software/unix/CMT.tar.Z.
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An ascii version is included in this distribution as "cmtman.doc".
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The voice libraries "std.sb" and "drums.sb" can be edited with glib
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for the SoundBlaster, which I've released separately.
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Usage:
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There are man pages for all programs. In short,
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to play a midi file: % mp filename
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to play a midi file and display info about voices:
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% mp -v filename
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to play an adagio file: % ad filename
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to disassemble a midi file:
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% mt filename >song.mt
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to reassemble a midi file:
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% tm song.mt
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to play and record an additional track (assuming midi input from a keyboard):
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% mp rhythm.mid -r 3,56 # record trumpet on channel 3
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% mt rhythm.mid >mysong.mt
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% mt mpout.mid >mytrack.mt
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% tm mysong mytrack # produces mysong.mid
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Examples of conversion between midi and Adagio files:
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% ad -m contin >contin.trk # compile adagio file contin.gio
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% tracks contin.trk >contin.mid # make a midi file of one track
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% ad -m all >all.trk # compile adagio file all.gio
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% tracks contin.trk all.trk >mult.mid # make two track midi file
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% mp -a mult.mid >mult.gio # decompile midi file to adagio file
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% ad mult # play new composition (ecch)
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Greg Lee, lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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