[linux-audio-user] Linux and hardware samplers

[James Greenwood]

Interesting - basically it sounds like you are able to transfer data
relatively easily because the sampler can read a standard filesystem like
DOS via its SCSI drive.  But it's still a two-stage process because you
have to save files to disk, then import them from disk at the other end.

However all I can currently do is make an image of an entire drive
(i.e. or Zip disk) for backup purposes, because the sampler uses a
non-standard filesystem.

Reading your post gave me an idea though - my sampler has the facility to
import data from Akai an formatted disk on the SCSI drive, so if there is
any Linux software that can save data in this format then maybe I could
import it into the sampler?  Having said that I doubt if there is because
it's another proprietary filesystem, albeit a more standard one.

Does anyone know of Linux software that can save sample data in Akai
format?  

I suppose I could consider installing a Windows partition on my PC as
there must be plenty of Windows software that can achieve this :-(

James

Brian Redfern wrote:
> The new roland smaplers all have direct usb connections, but it depends
> upon whether its just treated a a standard usb storage device, or whether
> they use some proprietary driver system, I believe its the former. But I
> do interact with a hardware sampler all the time, I use a usb zip drive to
> open files from my asrx pro. I still do a lot of midi work, so I use
> rosegarden to sequence my asrx and then make up samples with various
> programs under linux and then dump them in aiff format onto a dos
> formatted zip disk and then sneaker-net it to the scsi zip on my asrx.
> 
> For better integration I'd need to add a scsi card and then I could share
> the scsi zip with the asrx, in my sampler's manual its goes over how to
> setup the scsi terminators properly to share the scsi between the computer
> and the sampler, and in that case you just mount the zip drive as a dos
> drive and copy your aiff files over.
> 
> In terms of software like emagic sound diver, there isn't much in the way
> of front ends for hardware, I'm working on learning enough C to write an
> alsa/gtk app that can work like the sound diver front end for my
> adrenalinn stomp box.
> 
> http://www.brianredfern.org
> 

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