vgmtrans VS ardour

1 - There are generic-ish tools to dump/convert the with the notation like VGMTrans, but support for various internal formats/methods/effects/commands is definitely not 100%. I've used that one to dump tracks from many games across various systems and often it works fine, but sometimes an effect/track is missing for one reason or another or sometimes a game's music format simply isn't supported and people need to get hands-on.

A question answered before anybody even asks in the first place: I used VGMTrans to get ahold of all the Midi files. You can get it here: VGMTrans Github page

The two best options, in my experience, would be to use either GBA Mus Riper (yes, it is actually misspelled), or VGMTrans. Both should be able to take a GBA rom as input, and give you both midis, and a matching soundfont to go along with them. Then you can use your music editor of choice to load up said midi, and do whatever you want with it.

Here are the steps I'm following btw. https://github.com/vgmtrans/vgmtrans/wiki/Building-the-Qt-version#vs-noide

You can use VGMTrans to extract the Nintendo files to SF2 files as long as you have a Hotel Dusk ROM.

> I think a lot of people starting with open source kinda expect that dedicated contributors will start to swarm around the project. In reality, a large majority of projects, even many quite prominent ones, are driven by a very small core, often just the project founder.

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/gtk2_ardour/abo...

I'm the lead author of Ardour [0], and I'd very much like to hear more about your frustrations, since over the next 1-2 years, paying attention to non-European musical culture is one of the things I hope to focus on during development. You can reach me via the email address in my profile, or maybe use our forums at discourse.ardour.org. Thanks.

[0] https://ardour.org/ <= a cross-platform open source DAW that has been around for more than 23 years

One extra detail, something I've learned from 20 years of working on dragging all kinds of objects around the GUI of Ardour [0]: handle ALL button press and release events as drag events where there is no movement.

[0] https://ardour.org/

I am aware of the 'Real Tone Cable' however I am curious if this is what I should be buying if I also intend on recording my playing in a software such as 'Ardour'

If you don't care about exotica like async or signal safety, and just need to see the callstack from arbitray points, this can do the job without C++23:

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/libs/pbd/stackt...

(2 different implementations, one for POSIX-y systems with the execinfo.h header, and one for Windows)

The demange() function is elsewhere.

I just loaded an instance of samplv https://samplv1.sourceforge.io/ into the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ardour https://ardour.org/ .

If you produce music using a DAW, my preferred is Linux's Ardour: http://ardour.org

Ardour is a free DAW that recently added a clip launcher. I've never tried it.