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SMDI Transfers Between ReCycle and the ASR-X
by tgo, TACO!, and Jon

November 2001 ~ Potential, and existing, users of Propellerhead Software's ReCycle may be interested to know that ReCycle can be used for SMDI transfers to the ASR-X/X-Pro.

Since the ASR-X is not directly supported within ReCycle, as other hardware samplers are, I'd assumed that SMDI to/from ReCycle was not possible. Consequently, I'd export the individual slices and use Peak SE for SMDI transfers to my ASR-X Pro.

While using Peak SE for SMDI is a valid workaround, it ends up to have been unnecessary. With the help of two other ASR-X users, tgo and TACO!, I've arrived at the method to correctly add a sampler manually from within the Sampler Settings dialog in ReCycle v2. My mistake was in believing the program (ReCycle) when it reported 'sampler not found' and gave up too quickly. The section 'Finding all Connected Samplers' in the 'Sampler Setting's chapter of the ReCycle manual has been improved along with the v2 upgrade to ReCycle,

Here's the method that works in my setup. Read on...

  1. From the Edit menu, choose "Sampler Settings..."
  2. Click the "Add..." button on the lower left corner of the Sampler Settings dialog.
  3. From the Add Sampler dialog, choose 'Generic SMDI Sampler' from the "Model" drop down menu.
  4. Click the "Find" button. ReCycle will probably report 'Sampler Not Found'; Don't get discouraged - this is where I gave up prematurely on previous attempts.
  5. From the SCSI ID drop down menu, choose the SCSI Channel ID your ASR-X is set to. You have to make this setting manually for the SMDI connection to work. Duh!
  6. Click the "Verify" button to confirm the sampler has been found and is online (ReCycle will perform this task automatically each time you run the program.)
  7. Send and Receive samples via SMDI between your ASR-X and ReCycle!

Notes:

  • My ASR-X Pro is set to the factory default of SCSI ID 2. SCSI Termination= On since it's the last device on my SCSI chain. See pages 82-86 of the ASR-X Pro Reference Manual for SCSI setup instructions.
  • After I'd successfully used the 'Generic SMDI Sampler' configuration I attempted to use the 'Extended SMDI Sampler' setting from the Add Sampler dialog. This configuration would not work :-( I'd hoped to be able to drop samples directly into RAM slots within an ASR-X RAM-kit - similar to how samplers directly supported by ReCycle function. *sigh* oh well.
  • The ASR-X/X-Pro does not support SDS so, to no surprise, the 'Generic SDS Sampler' configuration did not work between ReCycle and the ASR-X. Considering that SMDI transfers are measurably faster compared to SDS this is not a great inconvenience so long as you've a SCSI card in your Mac/PC.

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