Hello Jeanette,

Thanks. I somehow thought it was in repositories. But it's just source code, so compile time! I found it here:

https://github.com/surfacepatterns/synthclone

It's a GUI application. I had thought of keeping the old keyboard around for the sounds, but my spouse isn't happy with me accumulating more clutter in our little place.


On March 2, 2023 10:53:26 PM HST, "Jeanette C." <julien@mail.upb.de> wrote:
Hello David,
yes, the tool is called synthclone. IIRC it is a graphical tool, but I may be wrong about that. I don't know when it was last updated.

Best wishes,

Jeanette

Mar 3 2023, david has written:

Good evening!

I seem to recall there was an app to clone hardware synths to soundfonts. Synthclone, synthklone, synclone? I thought it was a command line tool. I can't find anything in Debian 11 or KXStudio repositories.

It would methodically send MIDI events to the keyboard and record  the resulting audio. I think it also turned the result into soundfonts, but could be misremembering things.

I'm considering replacing my little old Yahama PSR-225GM keyboard with a good MIDI controller, but there are some sounds in it that I like better than the GM equivalents, plus there are its proprietary Yamaha sounds.

Ideas?

Thanks.

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