SF2TEXT(1)							   AWE32 manual 							SF2TEXT(1)

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  proprietary  format  used	by
       older versions of the AWE32 driver. Although newer versions of the driver and utilities are still compatible with these formats, these for-
       mats do not support multiple layer voices, and in general, you should use sfxload(1), and gusload(1) to	load  SoundFonts  or  GUS  patches
       directly.   sf2text  is a program which converts SoundFont (.SBK and .SF2) files into an intermediate 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(1).   sfx-
       text  takes  an	"sfx" file, and converts it back to the text format.  gus2sfx is a program which converts from GUS-format patch files into
       the sfx format handled 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 sample.

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

       -m mode
	      Sets  the  instrument usage mode when multiple definitions 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(1), gusload(1)

AUTHOR

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

       The AWE32 driver and utilities 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(1)