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Re: AW: [Doepfer_a100] Mac updaters and editors

2017-08-17 by Neil Kagan

Thanks Dieter,

I wish I knew how to write software myself!

Neil

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> On 17 Aug 2017, at 11:55, yahoo@doepfer.de [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> We are still a very small company and there are only 2 persons responsible
> for the hardware and software/firmware design (Christian Assall for the
> software/firmware and me for the hardware). As we are both not familiar with
> Mac programming we are not able to offer the Mac support without external
> manpower. Christian tried already to find a reliable external partner for
> Mac support but as far as I know he was not successful so far. I'll see if
> there is something we can do to solve this problem. If there is a member in
> the group that could help us please contact Christian directly
> (software@doepfer.de).
> 
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi Neil,
>> 
>> Yes, it’s a shame there is no Mac support. I had to write my own
>> software to program my A-192 but cannot update my early A-157.
>> 
>> I don’t have time to reverse engineer the PC updater. If we could
>> get the USB protocol and the new firmware binary I could write a
>> Mac updater for it.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>>> On 17 Aug 2017, at 09:28, Neil Kagan nkagan@mac.com
>> [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi to you all,
>>> 
>>> I'm not interested in the Mac v PC debate, just a long term Mac
>> user frustrated by the lack of support for Doepfer gear. The
>> A-157 updated is PC only, and this was only released as a product
>> fairly recently. Notation have made use of web based updaters /
>> editors; could this be possible?
>>> 
>>> Neil
> 
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