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). http://www.brianredfern.org 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. > > > > http://www.brianredfern.org > > > > -- > James Greenwood | jamesg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Work is life, and without it there's nothing but fear and insecurity > -- John Lennon >
