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@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
