SF2TEXT(T)                 AWE32 manual                SF2TEXT(T)



NAME
       SF2TEXT  - program to convert SBK or SF2 (SoundFont) files
       to text format

SYNOPSIS
       sf2text SoundFont [outputfile]
       txt2sfx [-Bv] [-m mode] [-d sf2file] textfile sfxfile
       sfxtext sfxfile
       gus2sfx [-Bv] [-m mode] [-d sf2file] textfile sfxfile

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the sf2text , txt2sfx ,
       sfxtext  ,  and  gus2sfx  commands.   This manual page was
       written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may  be
       used  by  others),  because  the original program does not
       have a manual page.

       All these programs are used for  converting  from  various
       common  patch file formats (SoundFont and GUS) into a pro-
       prietary format  used  by  older  versions  of  the  AWE32
       driver.  Although  newer versions of the driver and utili-
       ties are still compatible with these formats,  these  for-
       mats do not support multiple layer voices, and in general,
       you should use sfxload(d), and gusload(d) to  load  Sound-
       Fonts or GUS patches directly.  sf2text is a program which
       converts SoundFont (.SBK and .SF2) files into an  interme-
       diate  text  format used by txt2sfx.  txt2sfx is a program
       which converts the text format output by  sf2text  into  a
       binary  format  "sfx"  file.  This  file  can  be  read by
       sfxload(d).  sfxtext takes an "sfx" file, and converts  it
       back  to the text format.  gus2sfx is a program which con-
       verts from GUS-format patch files into the sfx format han-
       dled by

OPTIONS
       The  programs  follow  the usual UNIX command line syntax,
       but don't support long options  (ones  starting  with  two
       dashes  `-').  sf2text,  and  sfxtext  do  not support any
       options.  txt2sfx  and  gus2sfx  support   the   following
       options:

       -B     Adds  a  48-byte blank loop to the end of each sam-
              ple.

       -v     Increases the verbosity level.  Using  this  option
              more than once causes the output to become increas-
              ingly verbose.

       -m mode
              Sets the instrument usage mode when multiple  defi-
              nitions  are  found for the same instrument (multi-
              layered instruments): 0  means  to  use  the  first
              found,  1  means  to  use  the last, and 2 means to
              merge them.

       -d sf2file
              Includes raw sample data  found  in  the  SoundFont
              file sf2file

SEE ALSO
       sfxload(d), gusload(d)

AUTHOR
       This    manual    page    was    written   by   Tom   Lees
       <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

       The AWE32 driver and utilties were written by Takashi Iwai
       <iwai@dragon.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.



awesfx 0.3.3       Sun Mar  2 10:13:22 GMT 1997        SF2TEXT(T)