Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Yamaha S80 development?

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

Daniel Lyons wrote:

>I just downloaded JSynthLib and noticed that there was a Yamaha S80 development going on according the the sourceforge RFE list.
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No... there's a *request* for S80 support. :) However, some of the JSL 
devels use the RFE's to signify that, if someone doesn't write a driver 
for it first, then they'll write one eventually.

>so I was wondering if he (you? jemenake) might want me to go ahead and give the S80 a shot (I've got an S80 and am excited about having a patch editor GUI plus load/save).
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Go right ahead. I haven't seen the S80 sysex spec anywhere. If you've 
got it, I'd appreciate a copy.

>I'm mainly a C++/PERL programmer, but I don't think it'll give me too many troubles.
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Famous last words. :)

Seriously, though... I find the JSL API to be very counter-intuitive and 
awkward. I'm gradually figuring out the least-painful way to write for 
it... but it required looking at lots of the core code. To prevent this 
from happening to anyone in the future, I'm hoping to make a nice Wiki 
or, at least, a set of web pages called "JSL coding for dummies", which 
are a bit more explanitory about how to get things done in JSL and why 
it does things the way it does them.

So, if you get stuck anywhere... don't hesitate to let me know.

- Joe