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ms2smus - Convert Music Studio song to IFF-standard Simple MUsic Score
SYNOPSIS
ms2smus [-t [TRACKS]] [-c] [-s SOUNDFILE] [-d DESTDIR] SONGFILE
DESCRIPTION
Ms2smus converts songs saved with Music Studio to the IFF standard
SMUS format for use with Instant Music, Deluxe Video, etc.
The Music Studio song file name "SONGFILE" may contain spaces,
and must appear as the last argument.
The command line options and their meanings are:
-t [TRACKS] Specify number of tracks to appear in the SMUS file.
Since Instant Music uses 4 tracks, one for each instrument,
the default number of tracks is 4. For example, to create
a three-track SMUS song, specify "-t 3". If no TRACKS argument
is given, the number of tracks will be equal to the number
of instruments used in the Music Studio file.
When a Music Studio song uses more than four instruments,
four of them will have their own track and the rest will
play their notes on any of these four tracks.
When a Music Studio song uses less than four instruments,
the 'extra' tracks are available for playing chords (see
"-c" below).
-c Use SMUS chording. Because Instant Music implements chorded
notes differently from the SMUS standard, ms2smus will normally
play only one note at a time per instrument. If an Music
Studio file contains chords, only one of the notes in the chord
will normally be played by the indicated instrument. All other
notes will be 'bumped' to other instruments if they are available.
When the "-c" flag is specified, no notes will be 'bumped' ,and
all notes in the chord will be played by the same instrument.
However, in this case Instant Music will ignore all but one of
the chorded notes.
-d DESTDIR Specify a destination directory in which to place the
resulting SMUS file. Normally, ms2smus will create the SMUS
file in the current directory, with the ".song" filename
extension replaced by ".SMUS". If this argument is specified,
the file is created in the named DESTDIR instead.
EXAMPLES
ms2smus foo.song
Converts the Music Studio song "foo.song" to "foo.SMUS"
in the current directory, using four tracks and
'bumping' chorded notes to other tracks.
ms2smus -c -t 3 -d df1: foo bar.song
Converts "foo bar.song" to "foo bar.SMUS" on the disk
in the external drive, using three tracks and IFF-standard
chording.