Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi all, I ve been lurking here for ages, thanks for all the useful hints that have been supplied over time! I have a desktop evolver, which I currently tend to

I m an aGNUla/DeMuDi user, and my Poly Evolver Kbd is due for delivery Monday(!)... I ve built support for a few different synthesizers into JSynthLib, and

i also recently recieved a desktop evolver, and will most likely be
ordering a few more of them.  and i am also a linux user and plan to
automate a few tasks with linux since i don't like booting windows.

which controller are you talking about?  do you mean the commercial
editor program that dave smith sells for $49 on his web site?  as far
as i know, everything needed to control the evolver is fully
documented in the manual and there are no secret protocols that his
software takes advantage of.  it's all done through the documented
midi sysex messages.

i'm planning to write some scripts to do what i need under linux, and
i'll post them to my web site and i'll either place them in the public
domain or GPL them as i make them.  please check
http://www.morelater.com/evolver/ occasionally.

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Pope" <gusset@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I've been lurking here for ages, thanks for all the useful hints
that have
> been supplied over time!
> 
> I have a desktop evolver, which I currently tend to use standalone,
although
> I've been intending to buy the soundtower controller for ages.
However, I've
> just bought a new PC and am looking to rebuild my studio. In the
process, I
> think now might be the best time to switch to Linux (probably
Agnula). There

> isn't a Linux version of the controller at the moment, but is there one
> planned? Has anyone tried running it via an emulation mode? Is there any
> other alternative? Any Linux users here generally?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> --
> www.gusset.co.uk
> blog.gusset.co.uk
>

i tried to reply to you earlier, but i think i did something wrong. 
sorry for posting twice if my old message shows up.

i am also a linux user and am planning to write some scripts to
control the evolver from linux.  as far as i know, the commercial
editor uses nothing but the documented protocol from the manual for
controlling the evolver.

it would be interesting to see how many evolver owners are linux or
bsd (not counting mac osx) users.

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Pope" <gusset@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I've been lurking here for ages, thanks for all the useful hints
that have
> been supplied over time!
> 
> I have a desktop evolver, which I currently tend to use standalone,
although
> I've been intending to buy the soundtower controller for ages.
However, I've
> just bought a new PC and am looking to rebuild my studio. In the
process, I
> think now might be the best time to switch to Linux (probably
Agnula). There

> isn't a Linux version of the controller at the moment, but is there one
> planned? Has anyone tried running it via an emulation mode? Is there any
> other alternative? Any Linux users here generally?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> --
> www.gusset.co.uk
> blog.gusset.co.uk
>

"anonymous_evolver_128" <anonymous_evolver_128@...> writes:
> i'm planning to write some scripts to do what i need under linux, and
> i'll post them to my web site and i'll either place them in the public
> domain or GPL them as i make them.  please check
> http://www.morelater.com/evolver/ occasionally.

For saving patch dumps, it's pretty simple:

   cat /dev/midi0 > patch.syx

[ hit patch or bank dump on evolver ... wait until it's done, hit ^C ]

To send it back to the evolver:

   cat patch.syx > /dev/midi0

:-)

The demo version of the sound-tower editor seems to run under wine,
though the machine I tried it on doesn't actually have a midi card so I
couldn't test the midi I/O (and it gave lots of warnings about "no midi
interface found").

-Miles
-- 
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!