
The program has various interfaces, including but not limited to bare text, ncurses, X11 ( Motif, Xaw, GTK+ and Tk) and even an Emacs interface that shows played notes in real time. Files can be fetched from standard input, files, archive files, or from the network (over HTTP, FTP or NNTP). TiMidity++ also has support for SoundFonts, rendering the synthesized MIDI sounds into their recorded SoundFont equivalents and directing the output to the soundcard. mid files using the MIDI Tuning Standard. It is one of the few programs that can read MIDI. kar (MIDI with Karaoke lyrics), Recomposer files, and module files. TiMidity++ can read a number of file types and devices, primarily the ordinary. Distributed under the GPL-2.0-or-later, TiMidity++ is free software.

TiMidity++ primarily runs under Linux and Unix-like operating systems, but it also runs under Microsoft Windows and AmigaOS. It can either render to the sound card in real time, or it can save the result to a file, such as a PCM. TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally called TiMidity, is a software synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer.
