Re: [LAU] Convert data from old SMPTETrack Atari to standard MIDI foramt?

On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19 pm, Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:42:00AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Ken Restivo wrote:
> > >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.
>
> 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?

On some of my boxes, I run this way:

modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-virmidi
qjackctl

make sure Connect is selected
choose the midid tab

You should see the virmidi devices even before actuallt starting jack in
qjackctl. Do the ports from the Atari program show up there?

>
> -ken

all the best,

drew
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Received on Tue Oct 2 16:15:01 2007