8 Feb
2004
8 Feb
'04
11:22 p.m.
I had a yamaha a4000, great sampler... a little too "digital" for me.
Anyway there's a window program called b-zone that I used to use with
it. It loads under wine (since I don't have the a4000 I can't test it
further) you may be able to make use of it...
http://www.bzone.be/
good luck,
-ry
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:13, Frank Neumann wrote:
Hi list,
Emiliano Grilli <emiliano.grilli(a)poste.it> wrote:
I don't think so, sorry (see below).
I'm
happy to announce the first release (0.1) of lakai, a small tool package
that allows to exchange data (samples, programs) between a Linux PC and an
Akai sampler (S2000 tested; other 2xxx/3xxx models might work or not) over
SCSI. This permits "complete backup" and "complete restore" of the
sampler
RAM contents.
Excellent!
Unfortunately I do not have an Akai sampler, I have a Yamaha A4000... Do
you think your program can be useful to me? I know it can read (or better: import) AKAI cds,
but don't know if the
support is complete and especcially how this is related to SCSI
communication.
Reading (importing) Akai sample CDs is one thing (that's handled by the
OS or firmware of the sampler), but transferring stuff to the PC is
something else.
I had a short search on the internet, and if what I found is correct, the
Yamaha A3000/4000/5000 use the "SMDI" protocol for sampler transfer between
PC and sampler. This is in a document by Peavey (a doc from 1991), and there
is also an open-source project that brings this to Linux (see
http://chn.roarvgm.com/opensmdi/). However, I have not tried that, and cannot
comment on it. OpenSMDI has not had any updates since May 2001 or so.
Akai samplers have their own protocol which is not compatible with
OpenSMDI (communication goes through SysEx strings which is always
manufacturer-specific). That's perhaps why the Akai sampler protocol seems
to be a good deal faster than SMDI (I read about SMDI doing some 30 KBytes/sec;
I could do up to 610 KBytes/sec on long files).
Greetings,
Frank