midi-m8

A tool for turning Dirtywave M8 songs into Midi tracks. Available for CLI or as a standalone GUI app, a VST3 or a CLAP plugin for Windows and OSX.

Installation

Precompiled 64 bit binaries for Linux, Windows and OS X can be found in the Releases.

There are 4 versions of midi-m8: The CLI app, a standalone GUI, a VST3 plugin, and a CLAP plugin. All versions are compiled for x64 Windows, x64 Linux, x64 OSX and ARM arm64 OSX.

Usage

Usage: midi-m8 [OPTIONS] <INPUT_FILE>

Arguments:
  <INPUT_FILE>  Input (.m8s) file

Options:
  -o, --output <OUTPUT>
          Output file name [default: tracks.midi]
  -g, --global-transpose <GLOBAL_TRANSPOSE>
          How to map M8 note numbers to Midi Note numbers [default: 36]
  -t, --only-track <ONLY_TRACK_N>
          Only output track number (1-8)
  -s, --start-from <START_FROM>
          Start from this song position (hex: 00-FF)
  -m, --max-note-length <MAX_NOTE_LENGTH>
          Cap the maximum note length to this value in quarter notes
      --track-1-max-note-length <TRACK_1_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 1 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-2-max-note-length <TRACK_2_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 2 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-3-max-note-length <TRACK_3_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 3 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-4-max-note-length <TRACK_4_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 4 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-5-max-note-length <TRACK_5_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 5 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-6-max-note-length <TRACK_6_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 6 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-7-max-note-length <TRACK_7_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 7 to this value in quarter notes
      --track-8-max-note-length <TRACK_8_MAX_NOTE_LEN>
          Cap the maximum note length for track 8 to this value in quarter notes
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

Or in other words, point the command at a .m8s file, and you'll get a multi-track Midi file in return. You should be able to drag these Midi files into your DAW.

Examples

Basic

$ midi-m8 Songs/Demos/DEMO1.m8s

This will create a file tracks.midi.

Choose output file name

$ midi-m8 Songs/Demos/DEMO1.m8s -o output.mid

This will create a file output.mid.

Limit note length

$ midi-m8 -m 2 Songs/Demos/DEMO1.m8s

This caps the note length to 2 quarter notes.

Single track

$ midi-m8 --only-track 5 Songs/Demos/DEMO1.m8s

This will output only track 5 to track-5.midi.

Starting position

$ midi-m8 -s 02 Songs/Demos/DEMO1.m8s

This will render Midi starting from the position 02 in the song.

Possible features

That are not currently supported:

• Time signatures
• Tempo
• Table support
• Respect sequencer commands (other than GRV, which is already supported)
• Instrument mode: output one track per instrument
• Configurable channels
• Instrument (program) changes
• CC support

Compiling

To compile your own version, you'll first need to install the Rust toolchain.

Then, the easiest way to wind up with midi-m8 is to $ cargo-install midi-m8.

Alternately you could:

1. $ git clone https://github.com/AlexCharlton/midi-m8.git && cd midi-m8
2. cargo build --release You'll now have a binary in the ./target/release/ directory.

See https://github.com/AlexCharlton/midi-m8/tree/master/plugin for compiling the plugin.

Changelog

v1.3.1

• Linux GUI support

v1.3

• GUI version added
• MIDI track names now contain song name

v1.2

• V3 support