[linux-audio-user] playing .PAT's via Jack

[Rob]

Replying to the Wine thread reminded me of something I was thinking about last 
week and meant to ask the list.  I've seen a number of sample playback 
engines or programs that play .SF2 soundfonts, and for .PAT's of course 
there's Timidity++.  Is there any way to run T++ as a Jack application, or 
run some other application that incorporates T++ somehow to use my vast 
collection of .PAT files from my GUSPnP days as soundfonts?

If not, is there any way under Linux to convert my .PAT's to .SF2's?  I 
suppose I could buy Awave and try to get it working under Wine, but since 
there shouldn't be any actual data conversion going on I'd think someone 
might have written such a converter app years ago.

Maybe an ALSA-aware app would be good enough, since I'm running ALSA on my 
laptop now - I haven't actually tried to assemble a sequencer/synth suite 
under Linux yet because I haven't had any idea what to do with all my PAT 
files except render static .mid files to .wav using Timidity.

Rob