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	   TiMidity++ -- MIDI to WAVE converter and player

					Masanao Izumo
					<mo@goice.co.jp>
					Jan.5.1999
					version 1.0.0 or lator
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  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under  the  terms  of  the  GNU  General  Public
  License  as  published  by  the  Free Software Foundation;
  either version 2 of the License, or (at your  option)  any
  later version.

  Original version of this program is written by Tuuka Tiovonen <tt@cgs.fi>
  until TiMidity 0.2i. (he discontinued to develop it because of his busy
  work)  And Masanao Izumo <mo@goice.co.jp> and other people has begun to
  hack it, then we decided TiMidity++ officially release.

  TiMidity has originally been a converter that converts MIDI files to WAV
  audio file. But now TiMidity++ is not only a converter but also the
  real-time player that can play a MIDI file in real time. TiMidity does
  not requires external MIDI instrument module to play MIDI file, performs
  with software power.

  TiMidity++ uses GUS/patch (Glavis Ultrasound) as the voice data to play.
  And it can also handle SoundFont data for voice data.

*Features of TiMidity++:

  - Plays MIDI files without external MIDI instruments
  - Converts MIDI file to various formatted audio file
    (ex. wav, au, etc..)
  - Uses GUS/patch and SoundFont for voice data
  - Displays some of information of Music data during the playing
  - Various user interface are available (ncurses, motif, xaw, etc..)
  - Plays the MIDI file via network
  - Plays the MIDI file in archive file
  - Plays not only SMF file but also MOD, RCP/R36/G18/G36
  - Can handle 32 channel data
  - Can handle user interfaces as dynamic link modules
  - Can display the sound spectrogram
  - Automatically detects the mode of MIDI file (GM/GS/XG)
  - Automatically detects drum channels (GS/XG)
  - Trace playing
  - Low load
  - The following MIDI events are supported:
	NoteOn/Off, KeyPressure, Program, ChannelPressure, Pitchwheel,
	ToneBank, ModulationWheel, MainVolume, Panning, Expression,
	Sustain, Portamento, DataEntry, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect,
	RPN+/-, NRPN, RPN, AllSoundsOff, ResetControllers, AllNotesOff,
	Mono/Poly Part, RandomPan, KeyShift,
	TempoChange, Lyric, InsertText, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
	MasterVolume, MIDI-Reset, SystemExclusiveMessages

*Play the MIDI file in archive file:

 TiMidity++ can play a file contained in various archive file. The
 following archive format are supported:

  - tar           (*.tar)
  - tar + gzip'ed (*.tar.gz, *.tgz)
  - zip file      (*.zip)
  - lzh file      (*.lzh)

 If you  want  to  specify  a  certain MIDI file in the archive, describe
 the  #<MIDI-filename>  expression following  to  the  archive  name.  The
 expressions after the # is allowed to use  regular  expressions
 (case insensitive). For example:

              timidity'file.zip#file.mid'
                     Plays file.mid in file.zip

              timidity'file.lzh#*.mid'
                     Plays  any  files  that  match  the  regular
                     expression '*.mid' in file.zip

              timidity'file.tgz#*'
                     This  expression   is   same   as   timidity
                     'file.tgz'

*Play the MIDI file via network
 TiMidity++ can access a file via networks. Supported network protocol is
 HTTP, FTP and NNTP(NetNews). And specify these as
 http://foo, ftp://foo, and news://foo respectively.
 An archived file also accessible via network.

 On NNTP access, if you specify newsgroup in the message-ID field
 TiMidity++ plays all MIDI files posted in specified newsgroup. These MIDI
 files must be encoded in uuencode or the Multipart encoded uuencode /
 base64 / hexbin.

*Availability:
 The latest release of TiMidity++ are available in these sites:

     http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/
        (unix version, and developer's site)

     http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~gb7t-ngm/timidity/
        (Macintosh version)

     http://www2.off.ne.jp/~dai/timidity/timidity-izumo.html
        (Windows version)

 Now, the original release of Tuukka Toivonen is discontinued.  If you
 want to get the original, please download from follow.
     http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/dist/timidity-0.2i.tar.gz


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This document is translated from original README.jp (written in Japanese).
Translator: NAGANO Daisuke <breeze_geo@geocities.co.jp>
            (And modified by Masanao Izumo <mo@goice.co.jp>)
If you have any comment for this translation, please tell me.
