Hi list, Emiliano Grilli <emiliano.grilli@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 don't think so, sorry (see below). > 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
