[LAU] E-Mu ESI4000 SMDI

[Dan Richert]

I'm using an Adaptec AHA-7850 SCSI interface card.   I used this in the 
past with Sound Forge (back when it was made by Sonic Foundry) and it 
worked fine.

I think SMDITools' problem with the ESI4000 is sample numbering.  I 
believe SMDITools starts at 0 where the ESI4000 starts at 1 (0 is the 
clipboard).  I'll come back with more info when I get another chance to 
dig around in the SMDITools code (my C is far from great though (far 
from good, even)).

Thanks,
Dan


Gordon J. C. Pearce (MM3YEQ) wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:23 -0400, Dan Richert wrote:
>   
>> I posted about this a couple years ago on LAD or LAU, but I thought a 
>> fresh thread might attract some new insight.
>>
>> I'd like to get SMDI transfers to/from an E-Mu ESI4000 working under 
>> Linux.  I've tried SMDITools ( http://nolv.free.fr/SMDITools/ ), but 
>> that doesn't seem to work quite right with the ESI4000.  It's been a 
>> little while since my most recent go at it so I don't remember the exact 
>> problems I was running into.
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck getting SMDI transfers to work with the ESI4000 
>> under Linux?
>>     
>
> No, but it's something I'm interested in.  I started to develop Ensoniq
> Mirage and EPS MIDI transfer tools, and downloaded the SDS and SMDI
> spec, but haven't started on those yet.  There seems to be a serious
> lack of SDS tools in Linux (please don't mention sox - I *know* it will
> create something approximately like SDS, but it's not SDS and will
> actually crash most samplers).
>
> Which SCSI card are you using?  Has anyone successfully used SMDI with a
> USB-to-SCSI adaptor, or used one of these adaptors at all in Linux?
>
> Gordon
>
>