GUSLOAD(1)

💖 GUSLOAD(1) — the AWE32 manual's own lil superstar 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, we're doing the GUSLOAD(1) page, straight outta the AWE32 manual. yes the whole thing. no skimming. 💅

✨ 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 🌸

so this manual page is literally just a quick lil rundown of the gusload command, no biggie. fun fact: it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but like, other people can absolutely use it too, it's not gatekept 🫶) — and the reason it exists at all is that the original program didn't have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. ✨

gusload is the program that reads a GUS-format patch file and then uploads it into the Linux AWE32 driver, so that other AWE32 utilities can use it — drvmidi(1) being the classic example. it's giving backstage crew for the main character, and honestly? iconic. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so the program follows the usual UNIX command line syntax, BUT — and this is important bestie — it does not support long options (the ones starting with two dashes, -). noted. here's the full rundown of everything it accepts:

• -F [file] — specifies the device file. 📁
• -D [index] — sets the device index. use -1 for autoprobe. 🔍
• -i — resets all samples. all of them. clean slate. 🧼
• -v — verbose mode. it will tell you things. 💬
• -p [preset] — sets the instrument number to [preset]. defaults to whatever values the patch file itself specified. 🎹
• -b [bank] — sets the "bank" that the instruments get loaded into. defaults to bank 0. 🏦
• -k [keynote] — sets the fixed keynote for the instrument. defaults to the 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>. absolute legends, both of them. 🌟

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this was awesfx 0.3.3, dated Mon Feb 17 10:35:23 GMT 1997, and yeah, it's been serving since before either of us existed. lowkey iconic. periodt. 💀✨