21 Apr
2003
21 Apr
'03
8:13 p.m.
Yeah, it all depnds upon the sampler itself, my asrx pro supports import
of .wav and it uses .aiff as its native audio sample format, so when I
sample into it, and then save them onto the zip disk, they're just a bunch
of .aiff files on a dos formatter zip disk, so I can open it up on any
machine with a zip drive and any linux editor that supports .aiff
format. I use audacity both under linux and macosx to do all my work, but
the fact that the asrxpro in particular supports open formats makes my
work a lot more productive than if I were using an asr x keyboard, which
has its own proprietary sample format (and thus patent issues, etc...), my
korg electribe s also supports .aiff import, so I just use my smart media
reader to write .aiff file onto its card, but frankly at this point I
actually do my best work within csound (though of course it takes longer
to get going with), so using csound and for more manual stuff, once I
have muse working right with my sblive card, I won't have a need for the
hardware anymore (except my midi keyboard/knob-bank controller).
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, James Greenwood wrote:
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.
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