Hacking the 404SX

jetson · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:56 pm

I would definitely pay for this, or donate.

rmri · **Joined:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:53 pm **Posts:** 21

Hey guys,
this weekend I had some time to work on the program.
I am now able to read and write banks, sample parameters, it is now all working fine on the machine.

There were some interesting details in writing the wav / aiff files to the card: each sample must have its own Roland information embedded into it, which contains the sample's pad position on the device. This seems redundant in my opinion since the files are already named after the bank and pad it is assigned to, so we must write this bit of data in each file copied. This introduced some more work on the bank writing side. This however is ready now, I need to come up with a little UI to monitor the progress but thats all that's missing.

I will release a beta this week, hopefully within the next days.
Please sign up here if you want to test it:

http://labs.rumori.hu/bankrobber/beta-testing/

Stable release will come once we find it working without show-stopper bugs.

Please keep in mind, this is for the SP404SX right now. Support for earlier SPs will come in the future releases.

I also plan to do an introduction video, but don't want to tease people without having the program out at least in a beta form.

Thanks

Rabot · **Joined:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:31 pm **Posts:** 779

Thank for the update, still super interested

fauna · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:50 pm

super cool rmri. when you have earlier SPs supported, I'll get in on it.

one question: are the sample parameters in the software the same as they are on the hardware? which is to say, can you introduce panning via the software, or is that a no-go?

rmri · **Joined:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:53 pm **Posts:** 21

Here's a little video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtH-x6_ar1o

I just wanted to demonstrate the looping capabilities, half and double the loop length, move the looping area etc.
You can edit the start and end points manually too, but I did not touch on it here.

BPM calculation is also shown but it's a bit blurry in the video.

Finally I export it to the card and test it on the SP.

More to come...

rmri · **Joined:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:53 pm **Posts:** 21

fauna wrote:

one question: are the sample parameters in the software the same as they are on the hardware? which is to say, can you introduce panning via the software, or is that a no-go?

As far as I know there's no panning support on the SP (besides applying effects to the sample and resample)

I can add panning by altering the sample, lowering the left or right channel volume. But after that the sample will be modified and you cannot edit it in the SP.

Rabot · **Joined:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:31 pm **Posts:** 779

Wow, quite impressive.

ellaguru · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:17 am

interesting and amazing!
hope the 303/505 softs are ok like that too.

tdae · **Posted:** Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:51 am

that looks absolutely amazing!

dtunez · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:13 pm

I can't wait for a working beta ....
This will make my sp usable!

Please give us an update
peace dan

tape smoke · **Joined:** Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:06 am **Posts:** 1878

this is super awesome,

is there a way to hack the 404 operating system, to allow it to sample or resample the sequencer patterns. ?

jozefakie · **Joined:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:54 am **Posts:** 1

Wow, this is really a great program.

Would donate without doubt
Hope there will be a beta soon

ghost ghost ghost · **Joined:** Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:43 pm **Posts:** 90

This thing looks so dope it's ridiculous.

bigfake · **Joined:** Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:17 pm **Posts:** 6

Any news?

BARRY LURKIN · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:05 pm **Posts:** 80

NUDES?

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