5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
4:43 p.m.
"At last", Roboff says, "I have it." - from "Mask Of The
Sun"
Hi LAU'ers,
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.
Availability:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lakai (the web page was not updated yet)
Right now, everything is just shell-based, no GUI yet, and the tools are
rather rudimentary, the source is ugly and sprinkled with TODOs and printf's
etc. pp., but at least it WorksForMe(tm). I welcome comments, success stories
and bug reports, but my answers might take a while :-). All further info is
in the archive in the README - read it, it took me a while to put it together.
This stuff comes rather late - in fact, I created this sourceforge project
more than 4 years ago, and I have only been working on it very rarely for
a long time (and it's even quite small). The S2xxx model samplers are only
available second-hand today, and software-based samplers (like
http://www.linuxsampler.org) are already on the way. I am still very proud
that I finally got this baby out of the door. Ha! :-).
Enjoy,
Frank
9:13 a.m.
giovedì, 05 febbraio 2004 alle 21:43:58, Frank Neumann ha scritto:
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.
I should also have the sysex specification in the manual, if can be of
use...
Consider that I'm not a programmer, so I can't help on that side :(
but I can give you any information, if you want :)
Frank
TIA
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Emiliano Grilli
Linux user #209089
http://www.emillo.net
8 Feb
8 Feb
8:12 p.m.
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
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
9 Feb
9 Feb
3:58 a.m.
domenica, 08 febbraio 2004 alle 21:18:46, Ryan ha scritto:
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...
Yes, I tried under wine and it loads, but I wasn't able to get MIDI in/out
working, however I will try again (maybe new versions of wine)
http://www.bzone.be/
good luck,
-ry
Thank you :)
--
Emiliano Grilli
Linux user #209089
http://www.emillo.net
3:56 a.m.
lunedì, 09 febbraio 2004 alle 01:13:03, Frank Neumann ha scritto:
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.
Thank you, it seems to be an interesting starting point (if only I'm able
to program :). This can be one reason to learn programming, even if I bet
it's not an easy task dealing with SCSI after only the "hello world"
experience ;)
Greetings,
Frank
Ciao,
--
Emiliano Grilli
Linux user #209089
http://www.emillo.net
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