Re: [timidity-talk] Change per channel volume

[Frank P. <fra...@co...>]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 16:53:41 +0530
Ligesh <my...@li...> wrote:

> 
>  Is there a to edit using text editor vim or timidity itself? 
>  Midi editors are cumbersome, and needs kde or something. I tried
>  that, but turned out to be too much time consuming, and you need
>  to keep multiple copies, since you don't want to lose the original.
> 

A great utility is midicsv by John Walker:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv

It converts a midi file into a text file.  This text file can
then be edited using any text editor.  After editing, the
text file can then be converted back into a midi file.

The exact format of the converted text is given in the midicsv
man page.

I use midicsv often to change instruments and notes.  Being
a  command-line program, it's not as convenient as some graphical
midi editors, but it gets the job done nicely.

Frank Peters