Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Yamaha S80 development?

[Daniel L. <soc...@ma...>]

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From: "Joe Emenaker" <jo...@em...>
To: "Daniel Lyons" <soc...@ma...>
Subject: Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Yamaha S80 development?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:39:56 -0700

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> Daniel Lyons wrote:
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> > I just downloaded JSynthLib and noticed that there was a Yamaha=20
> > S80 development going on according the the sourceforge RFE list.
> >
> >
> No... there's a *request* for S80 support. :) However, some of the=20
> JSL devels use the RFE's to signify that, if someone doesn't write=20
> a driver for it first, then they'll write one eventually.

Well, the JSynthLib developer docs said to check the RFE first.  Heh, I don=
t know - i assumed since it was 'assigned' to someone that meant something.=
  Well, it's still less of a mess than my apartment, so oh well.


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> > so I was wondering if he (you? jemenake) might want me to go=20
> > ahead and give the S80 a shot (I've got an S80 and am excited=20
> > about having a patch editor GUI plus load/save).
> >
> >
> Go right ahead. I haven't seen the S80 sysex spec anywhere. If=20
> you've got it, I'd appreciate a copy.

The data sheets from Yamaha do leave a bit to the imagination, but I think =
there's enough there to reverse engineer what isn't in the documentation - =
I only see a couple possible combinations of sysex data that'll work.  At l=
east there's a starting point, though:

See:
http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/emi/english/synth/S80E2.PDF
and
http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/emi/english/synth/S80E3.pdf

> > I'm mainly a C++/PERL programmer, but I don't think it'll give me=20
> > too many troubles.
> >
> >

> Famous last words. :)

*bonks you on the head*

> Seriously, though... I find the JSL API to be very=20
> counter-intuitive and awkward. I'm gradually figuring out the=20
> least-painful way to write for it... but it required looking at=20
> lots of the core code. To prevent this from happening to anyone in=20
> the future, I'm hoping to make a nice Wiki or, at least, a set of=20
> web pages called "JSL coding for dummies", which are a bit more=20
> explanitory about how to get things done in JSL and why it does=20
> things the way it does them.

There were those dev docs from the main site.  I'll admit I was tempted
to rewrite this glade midi controller to do the job since I'm not a big
fan of Java, but I liked the look to JSynthLib and got it running without
too man yproblems... so... I figured there might be hope for Java after all=
!=20
(multiple inheritance rocks the universe, though, they'll never understand =
that).

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

I'll take that as a green light.  Alright, if I find myself shaking my
fist too much, you'll have one frustrated nerd e-mailing you :)

Cheers,
Dan
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