[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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