EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 38, Issue 12 This issue's topics: S612 Data Dump (4 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 08:28:04 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: S612 Data Dump Judging from postings over the past month or so there are several people out th ere ( including myself) interested in figuring out how to transfer sample data from the Akai S612 to computer. I contacted Akai, and was sent a few pages of m idi spec, which I tried. As far as I can make out, there is no single dump requ est message, but rather bits and pieces of sample data come over with each requ est. Anyone figure out a workaround to come up with a meaningful way transfer d ata back and forth? Jon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 18:29:52 GMT From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra Subject: Re: S612 Data Dump OFABJC@UVMADMIN.BITNET (Jon Crystal) writes: >Judging from postings over the past month or so there are several people out th >ere ( including myself) interested in figuring out how to transfer sample data >from the Akai S612 to computer. I contacted Akai, and was sent a few pages of m I know nothing of the S612, so I can't help with their particular implementation. But every sampler should be able to transmit samples through the so called Standard Midi Sample Dump. It's a machine-independant protocol for transfering samples between different samplers or between sampler and computer. So, to be totally clear, every sample should (in general) support two dump protocol: his (her?) own, machine-dep, and the MIDI-protocol, machine-indep. I've got more info on the MIDI-protocol - feel free to email me. Hendrik Jan Veenstra -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra - Department of Philosophy University of Utrecht - The Netherlands USENET: hjv@phil.ruu.nl * the best email is F-email * ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 12:09:07 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: S612 Data Dump >But every sampler should be able to transmit samples through >the so called Standard Midi Sample Dump. It's a machine-independant protocol The S612 predates the Sample Dump Standard. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 22:37:04 GMT From: Bob Hays Subject: Re: S612 Data Dump In article , Jon Crystal writes: > Judging from postings over the past month or so there are several people out th > ere ( including myself) interested in figuring out how to transfer sample data > from the Akai S612 to computer. I contacted Akai, and was sent a few pages of m > idi spec, which I tried. As far as I can make out, there is no single dump requ > est message, but rather bits and pieces of sample data come over with each requ > est. Anyone figure out a workaround to come up with a meaningful way transfer d > ata back and forth? > > Jon I finally got a copy of Interval Music's editor for the S612 but, before that, I had gotten the same pages from Akai and had started a small editor for the box on the Atari ST. You are correct, you must pass/send blocks of data over the serial interface and then receive/send ACKs and NACKs (depending upon the success or failure thereof:-) between the S612 and the computer. This is an old device and it does not seem to have a rapid transmit facility. The blocks are 512 bytes each (or is that samples ie. words - I cannot remember now). It takes between 15 and 30 seconds to move samples between a computer and the S612 from my observations. If you have a C compiler, I can probably put some code up that works mostly (assuming you don't have other devices sending MIDI messages - I didn't want to worry about that at the time, since, architecturally, you can insert any processing function pretty easily into the program). Hope that helps you out. Have fun! - Bob -- ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************