Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Akai's MPC4000 Sampler/Workstation Open Source Project

Well, everybody's telling me that Akai's OS is something else. Realtime
stuff and 2 or 3 engines and DSPs to manage. Besides, we have to support
akai's native file formats, like PROGRAM, MULTI and Sequence.

I really don't know why... I'm just hearing what everybody says. You
think it shouldn't be that hard to port Linux and develop the effects
and stuff, and to support Akai's native format? Would you give me some
arguments and reasons?

Thanks for the input!

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:29 -0500, Renich Bon Æiriæ wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much for the those words! ;=)
>>
>> As you saw at the links, the first goal is to get the source from
>> Akai... even a beta. If that fails, we are gonna try and develop a whole OS.
>>
>>
>
> Why? That makes no sense. Why not just port Linux to it?
>
>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/26/06, Renich Bon Æiriæ <renich@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, we are trying to make a proposal to Akai Pro so it releases the
>>>> source code of the OS that runs on the MPC4000 Worstation/Sampler.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to join and help, go to http://www.woralelandia.com/openmpc/
>>>>
>>>> # Reference
>>>> http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=54825
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I took a look at the specs Akai sent you. If you intend to port linux
>>> to it, you have a nice begining there. You have the full list of
>>> hardware pieces inside, and all the schematics. Even if akai don't
>>> give you their OS source, everything is still possible.
>>>
>>>
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