PATCAT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hi bestie, welcome to PATCAT(1) from the General Commands Manual — and omg, patcat is here to combine two GUS patches into one stereo extended GUS patch. it's giving “glow-up for your patches” energy, fr fr. 💅✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

patcat left.pat right.pat

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here’s the tea: patcat combines two ordinary monophonic GUS patches to make an extended GUS patch that has two channels. the left channel comes from the first of the two patch files that were combined, and the right channel comes from the second. the new extended GUS patch file that is created is named the same as the name of the left patch file but with "-stereo" appended. so if you started with a left patch, bestie, the output is literally that name plus -stereo. periodt. 💖

also, two monophonic extended GUS patches can also be combined, provided their velocity layers match up. no cap, they have to match up. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

there are no options. like, zero. none. the options section is empty and honestly that’s iconic — patcat just does the one thing. 💀✨

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Greg Lee — <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu>
• Based on code from Hannu Savolainen

and that’s the whole page, bestie. Version 0.0.0, 19th July 2004 — yes, this was PATCAT(1). mwah, slay, bye. 🎀💖✨