Yamaha PSR-E313 : accessing flash memory with linux
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From: vyk on 29 Dec 2007 15:43 Hi, Recently I got a music keyboard Yamaha PSR-E313. It has an onboard flash memory for storing user MIDI data, 99 songs maximum. According to the manual, these data can only be written from a PC via a MIDI connection using a special Windows program called MusicSoft Downloader. The problem is that I have no Windows but only Debian (etch) linux on my home PC. Debian works quite well with my PSR except for it cannot access this flash memory. I tried to run Downloader in wine but it didn't work out :-( Could someone tell me whether it is possible to write data to PSR's flash in linux? I'm using a MIDI-USB interface (MIDI jacks connect to the keyboard and the USB jack goes to the PC). Probably it's too wild to say but is it possible to mount the keyboard's memory via MIDI-USB interface similar to the way in which USB memory sticks are usually mounted? Thanks VK
From: Eric Boon on 29 Dec 2007 17:05
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:43:52 +0000, vyk wrote: > Could someone tell me whether it is possible to write data to PSR's > flash in linux? Hm that could be a toughy. I suspect the data is written to and read from the PSRs flash using SysEx messages. If you've got the skills, you could try and figure out the protocol used by spying on the MIDI stream when the keyboard and that MusicSoft Downloader program are exchanging data. But for that to work, you'd need to have access to a Windows PC... - /home/eric/.signature |