DeRobyJ wrote:Since removing patman will break some projects,
This is the second time I've heard something like this when it comes to removing a feature. It's not as if the file won't load and your computer utters a sigh and dies every time you load it. Any coder worth two cents would add an exception routine. and the tracks using PatMan would just be silent/nonexistent, or (if someone was feeling brave) loaded with a different synth with a similar sound.
Now that I've got my rant out of the way, I actually do use PatMan fairly often, (mainly for Piano), because it's consistent and sort of sounds chromatically sampled, (unlike some of the SoundFonts I've encountered that sound disgusting in the outer octaves). You also have envelope customizability, which you do not get with the soundfont player; so for me, it's actually for useful than SoundFonts sometimes.