2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
12:20 a.m.
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:42:00AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
Wow. Just wow. It works! Along with the copy of EditTrack y'all pointed me to here:
http://tamw.atari-users.net/dwnloads.htm
Amazing. What a great sequencer that was! I haven't used it in 15 years, but
surprisingly I remembered how to get around in it.
Now one question. EditTrack refuses to save the file in MID format. Even if I name the
file EXPORT.MID, it saves it in its proprietary SNG format instead.
It looks like steem will access /dev/midi or any OSS-style /dev/something MIDI port,
however. So I'm almost there. I just need to figure out how to get a /dev/midi kind of
device to show up in aconnect, then I can play the song on EditTrack in the virtual Atari,
and use aseqdump to capture it on Linux.
I've messed around with virmidi, etc, but haven't figured out how to do this
though. Is there any way to create a bridge between a /dev/device that will show up as an
ALSA sequencer port in aconnect/QjackCtl?
- -ken
But I have some data in the proprietary format of
the old SMTPETrack
program for Atari ST, but I long ago sold the Atari and the SMPTETrack
software and its little game-port SMPTE dongle (which was the
copy-protection for the software too).
Just for curiosity's sake, I'd like to get a couple of those files
converted to standard MIDI format, and try to listen to 'em using PC51
soundfont in fluidsynth, for instance, and all the other wonderful modern
tools of linux goodness.
Any ideas how to do that? Short of buying an old Atari ST and the
SMPTETrack dongle on EBay? This is only a mild curiosity and probably not
worth spending money (or even much more time than an hour or so).
Maybe XSteem can help ?
http://steem.atari.st/
Might not be what you want if that dongle's an absolute necessity.
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