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 On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, tim wrote: > > I want to get Linux and a hardware sampler talking to each other more > > effectively. Specifically the following: > [snip] > > well, it looks like no one has any good news for you! > > does it do spdif/aesebu backups/restores? > > > > What about other options? I could get rid of the sampler altogether - > > then to get the same number of outputs I'd need to upgrade my soundcard - > > but anyway, what Linux software is there that could replace a hardware > > sampler while probably retaining a sampler-like way of working? > > exactly. > > > > Finally, I suppose I could upgrade the hardware sampler. I guess that > > more modern hardware samplers integrate better with PCs in general. But > > are their protocols and file formats any more open and therefore > > potentially more inter-operable with Linux, or are you just as locked in > > by proprietary formats and protocols as before? > > i dont spose they're much better, although i did see one with > an ftp server inside :-) > > good luck! > > -- > Tim >
