NAME

       gusload - load a GUS-format patch file into the AWE32 RAM

SYNOPSIS

       gusload [-D devidx] [-F name] [-iv] [-b bank] [-p preset] GUSpatch

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the gusload command.  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.

       gusload  is  a  program  that will read a GUS-format patch file, and then upload it to the
       Linux AWE32 driver, to be used by other AWE32 utilities, e.g. drvmidi(1).

OPTIONS

       The program follows the usual UNIX command line syntax, but doesn't support  long  options
       (options starting with two dashes `-').  Here is a summary of the options is accepts:-

       -F [file]
              Specifies device file

       -D [index]
              Sets devices index. Use -1 for autoprobe

       -i     Resets all samples.

       -v     Verbose mode.

       -p [preset]
              Sets  the  instrument number to [preset]. Defaults to values specified in the patch
              file.

       -b [bank]
              Sets the "bank" that the instruments are loaded into. Defaults to bank 0.

       -k [keynote]
              Sets the fixed keynote for the instrument. Defaults  to  values  specified  in  the
              patch file.

SEE ALSO

       sfxload(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>.