[linux-audio-user] Using .PAT files with Jack, and drawbars
Mark Knecht
mknecht at controlnet.com
Thu May 20 17:53:20 EDT 2004
PAT2RAW.ZIP GUS patch files -> raw samples (8/16-bit) (sound)
By chance I just ran across this. Would it help you?
http://www.synchrondata.com/pheaven/www/area26.htm
(BTW - this was listed on Dave Philips page but the link there didn't
work. I jsut used Google to get this far.)
- Mark
Rob wrote:
> I just got an Edirol PCR-30 for my birthday, so I've dug out my
> 10 years worth of GUS patches and have been playing them through
> Timidity. Unfortunately, the Intel chipset on my laptop doesn't
> seem to want to give ALSA more than one pcm client, so I can't
> use Timidity and Jack at the same time. I can kill Timidity
> when I want to switch over to, for example, ams, but this seems
> to make Rosegarden (and sometimes ALSA Patch Bay) unstable and
> will be a huge pain if I ever want fake analog synth and fake
> piano in the same song.
>
> So.... Is there an easy way to do one of the following in free
> software:
>
> (a) make Timidity use Jack,
> (b) make Fluidsynth use .PAT files, or
> (c) losslessly and automatically convert a couple hundred .PAT
> files to soundfonts?
>
> I did just spend about an hour googling for any of the above
> solutions but to no avail. There was a widely-pirated sound
> format converter I remember under Windows, Awave maybe?
> but I don't know of a Linux equivalent whether free or not. Any
> ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Oh yeah, and the PCR-30 has eight sliders right on the front of
> it (plus a bunch of knobs and buttons.) I know they're sent
> over MIDI because one of the sliders affects the filter cutoff
> in one of the ams examples. This makes me think of drawbars.
> Any suggestions for a drawbar organ simulator that lets you
> assign MIDI controllers to each of the drawbars and then move
> them in realtime?
>
> Rob
>
>
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