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 > >
