CAMD driver for USB Devs:midi/poseidon missing

[hansfaust]

Hello,
I'm new here, and I doesn't know if this is the right place for my issue.

I'm the man, who worked nearby 10 years (2000 - 2010) on BarsnPipes since Blue Ribbon Inc, have had given away the Sourcecode of this genial program.
Not few serious musicians around the world are working with Bars&Pipes Pro, because it IS the best Multimedia-MIDI-sequencer ever made for a Computer.
I've succesful made ports to MorphOS and AMIGA OS4.

Currently I'm working on the port of the Multimedia-MIDI-sequencer BarsnPipes to AROS.
Oh, yes I know, I'm not the first wich tryed to do this. In AROS:Extras/MediaEditors is a Directory Bars'n'Pipes. But unfortunately this Version of BarsnPipes doesn't start.

My work is in progress.For the Moment  I do not want this version to be compatible with the AMIGA version.
That means the native BarsnPipes song-files are not compatible.
Later - I think - it will be easier to make a Export/Import-Plugin for BarsnPipes.
At the Moment the program works fine. It can load and save Standard MIDI-files (*.mid). After loading the file can be edited and saved.
But unfortunately the most important for this program: the MIDI-Connection (including recording and playing) is not available.

There should be a possibility of a MIDI-Connection via USB.
When I connect a USB-MIDI-Interface to my native AROS-machine, a nice message appears,
that a MIDI-Interface is found and bound to camdusbmidi.class.
BarsnPipes itself can connect to the "debug"-Driver in DEVS:midi.
So it could all work, if someone could build the "poseidon" camd driver for DEVS:Midi.
It exists as a Assembler source for the 68k-AMIGA-OS.

Because I'm not a assembler-programmer for AROS, I'm not able to create it .
IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE; WHO COULD DO THIS FOR ME ?

This little piece of software is urgently needed. It would be a great pleasure if someone here could help.

Kindly Alfred

www.alfred-j-faust.de

[Amiwell]

hello Alfred

the version that is on Icaros desktop works just delete the prefs file, restart the program and save your preferences, as for the driver I can't help you, anyway it should work with the serial cable.

[wawa]

kalamatee says the usb driver is generated on the fly at run time. i cant confirm this myself as im not familiar with the matter. btw i think i have also made or started a partial port so maybe i can assist a bit, but my priorities are platforms of abi_v1.

[hansfaust]

hello Alfred

the version that is on Icaros desktop works just delete the prefs file, restart the program and save your preferences, as for the driver I can't help you, anyway it should work with the serial cable.

Hi salvo,
thanks for tip. But unfortunately this version has no Tools or Accessories available. It crashes, if I try to load any tool from my currently in process-version.
Without the Input- and Output-MIDI-Tools this verion is not very useable. It shows only, that it is possible to compile it for AROS.

[hansfaust]

kalamatee says the usb driver is generated on the fly at run time. i cant confirm this myself as im not familiar with the matter. btw i think i have also made or started a partial port so maybe i can assist a bit, but my priorities are platforms of abi_v1.

Hello wawa,
that are good News. I tryed it, to connect to a USB-MIDI-Interface, which were connected proper to the camdusbmidi.class. But the connection-driver to the CAMD-System is NOT created on the fly … it is not present in DEVS:midi/, so I can't connect (link) CAMD to a not existing Driver.

If you can have a look at the 68k-camd-driver (the bridge between Poseidons camdusbmidi.class and the CAMD-System)
I attach it here.

NB.: here is the text at the top of the source to the camdusbmidi.class
/*
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *                         camdusbmidi class for poseidon
 *----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *                   By Chris Hodges <chrisly@platon42.de>
 */

/* TODO: Somebody needs to port the assembly 68k camd driver to something that is used under AROS! */

. . .

[Amiwell]

hello Alfred

I have never used these types of programs, I know that bars & pipes is very famous in the amiga community, I play electric bass and I usually just record something and that's it

[Amiwell]

I think if you connect a midi instrument I don't know a keyboard it is possible to work safely, then I don't know the program

[hansfaust]

You will be NOT able to connect any MIDI-instrument to Bars&Pipes without the MIDI-IN-/OUT-Tools. In other MIDI-sequencers this is managed global, but in BarsnPipes this is done for each MIDI-channel separately.

[Amiwell]

yes I understood but it seems to me that with the serial port this is possible at least from the preferences of the program it is clear that you have an active input and output if present

[hansfaust]

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but what you can choose in the menu: Preferences->Environment are the connections for the sychronization.
There are two kinds of synchronization:
- controlled by MIDI-clocks (short "clocks" in the Environment window)
- controlled by MIDI-Time-Code (short "MTC")

MIDI-Clocks only sync the tempo between two MIDI-devices independent when it starts or stops, 
and MIDI-Time-Code syncs also the timepoint. The MTC is mostly used by synchronization to a
special time schedule, like in Power-Point-, Video- or Diapostive-presentations. 

The sequencer itself in BarsnPipes needs, like I always mentioned,  the MIDI-IN and OUT-Tools.
And these tools are missing currently in the onboard version. But I'm on the way to change this.
Exactly for this I need the mentioned driver as bridge between the Poseidon-USB-System
and the  CAMD (Commodore Amiga MIDI Driver) - system.

Kindl, Alfred

[Amiwell]

ok understand alfred

[Amiwell]

Hi Alfred

since you can't implement the usb class you could go via serial port, currently the abiv0 branch is the stable one and third party programmers mainly refer to it

[hansfaust]

Hi Alfred

since you can't implement the usb class you could go via serial port, currently the abiv0 branch is the stable one and third party programmers mainly refer to it

salvo,
I thank you very much for supporting my request. But it is true that things are not quite so simple with MIDI. Modern PC Hardware(!) unfortunately does not support the transmission speed of MIDI: 31.25 kBaud over the serial port. In addition to that, a so-called MIDI interface is needed, which converts the serial signals for MIDI.
The serial transmission on the AMIGA was so nice and easy, because there the transmission speed was freely programmable.
So I want to see if I can get the MIDI transmission via USB finished after all.

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[Amiwell]

I understand, but I was convinced that the program was fully usable, good work and thank you

[hansfaust]

Good news:
I've seen, that kalamatee has made a driver for the Devs:midi.
At github in AROS/rom/usb/classes/camdmidi/camd/ I found a new poseidon.c.
That's really a big step forward.
Now it would be nice to compile it and bring it in a working stage. I'll test it here with my MIDI-equipment.
I can't compile it here, because the header-files  proto/camdusbmidi.h and the dependend files are not yet included in the last nightly build from the 19-Feb-2020.
BUT I'm very happy. My  most heartfelt thanks !!! 

Alfred