Where can I get freely available MIDI patches to run SoftOSS?
SoftOSS is a software-based wavetable synthesizer included with the kernel sound driver that is compatible with the Gravis Utrasound card. To operate the driver needs GUS compatible MIDI patch files. The documentation mentions the “public domain MIDIA patchset available from several ftp sites”. As explained on the 4Front Technologies web page http://www.opensound.com/softoss.html they can be downloaded from ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz.
SoftOSS is a software-based wavetable synthesizer included with the kernel sound driver that is compatible with the Gravis Utrasound card. To operate the driver needs GUS compatible MIDI patch files. The documentation mentions the “public domain MIDIA patchset available from several ftp sites”. Note that SoftOSS is no longer included as of the 2.4 kernels. As explained on the 4Front Technologies web page http://www.opensound.com/softoss.html they can be downloaded from ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz.
1.1. Acknowledgments Much of this information came from the documentation provided with the sound driver source code, by Hannu Savolainen ([mailto:hannu@opensound.com] hannu@opensound.com). Thanks go to Hannu, Alan Cox, and the many other people who developed the Linux kernel sound drivers and utilities. Thanks to the [http://www.docbook.org] DocBook tools, this HOWTO is available in several formats, all generated from a common source file.
