Hi Atte, Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm thinking seriously about getting an Alesis Micron. But I understand > they are a pain to program, so I'm looking for an editor software. > > I looked at jsynthlib, and it seems it should be possible to write a > driver for the Micron. However the project seems a little (or more) > dead. What software do you guys use to edit your hardware synths? The problem is Alesis' MIDI specification for the Ion/Micron is still not publicly available. I think you have three options: Hack Micronizer: http://mrbook.org/micronizer Connect your Micron to your computer and use aseqdump or something like that to check which parameter corresponds to which MIDI message or join the alesis-ion Yahoo group to get most of the MIDI specs from the files section (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/alesis-ion/files/Documentations/ and http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/alesis-ion/files/midi%20and%20sysex%20info/). Then prototype your custom Micron GUI in Pd, Python or whatever. Download the Program Decoder from Alesis (http://alesis.com/downloads/software/Ion/Ion_ProgramDecoder_v100.zip). This Perl script encodes patches defined in text files to Ion/Micron sysex files and vice versa. Maybe you can program a quick GUI to edit those patch text files and an automatic transfer to your synth if the underlying text file changed. I've also build a rudimentary MusE instrument definition file for my Ion. If it's still not included in the official MusE release it's at least in the CVS repository. regards, Sebastian PS: Or you could buy an Ion instead of a Micron ;) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
