SFXTEST(1)

💖 SFXTEST(1) — the AWE32 manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk: this is the manual for sfxtest, straight out of the AWE32 manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

sfxtest — the test utility for the Linux AWE32 driver. it's giving "am I working?? let's find out" energy. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sfxtest [command parameters] ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this page is a lil quick-and-dirty rundown of the sfxtest command, nothing more, nothing less. 🫶

fr fr, this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but other people are totally welcome to use it too, no gatekeeping here), and the reason it exists at all is that the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. 😌

so what even is sfxtest? it's a program built to test that the Linux AWE32 driver has been set up properly, and that the appropriate patch files are loaded correctly — and by "loaded correctly" we mean with sfxload(1) or gusload(1). it's the vibe check for your driver. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so the program takes a series of commands, and each command comes with its arguments. here's every single one, no skips, no skimming, we do not gatekeep:

• X — tells the program to use channel control mode. mode switch activated, periodt. 💫
• x channel — changes the channel being operated on to channel. yes, lowercase x is a whole different command from uppercase X. iykyk. 🙈
• b bank — changes the bank being used to bank.
• p program — changes the program (that's the instrument, bestie) being used to program.
• n note velocity — sends a noteon command for note note at velocity velocity. go off, note. 🔥
• k — kills a note (it sends noteoff). rip to that note, but we're different. 💀
• K note — kills the note note (this one's used for channel mode). uppercase, because it's that girl.
• r value — sets the pitch sense to value.
• w value — sets the putch wheel to value.
• t time — waits for time hundredths of a second. lil nap, self-care, we love to see it. 😴🌸
• c value — sets the panning value to value.
• v note velocity — changes the key pressure of note note to velocity velocity.
• D mode — sets the debug mode of the driver to mode. and heads up: higher values of mode are more verbose, so buckle up if you crank it. 🗣️
• C mode — sets the chorus type to mode.
• R mode — sets the reverb type to mode.
• F parameter value — sends an effect command type parameter, with value value.
• I — (re-)initializes the AWE32 driver and the EMU8000 chip. the classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" but make it a single uppercase letter. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

sfxload(1), gusload(1), drvmidi(1)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 💖

and the AWE32 driver and utilities themselves were written by Takashi Iwai <iwai@dragon.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>. absolute icon behaviour, we stan. 👑

cute sign-off time 🫶 this whole thing comes to you from awesfx 0.3.3, dated Sun Mar 2 09:57:48 GMT 1997 — yes bestie, 1997, the vintage era, and it's still serving. mwah. 💋