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Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:45 am
by gaiaadmin
Just came across an independant project to build a tool for reading your GAIA patch settings from your PC. Check it out:
http://www.grauw.nl/projects/gaia-tool/

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:54 pm
by Grauw
Hey,

I just released a new version of the tool, version 0.1.0. It is now possible to edit arpeggios, tracker-style!

That’s a first for the GAIA :).

GAIA tool project page

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:00 pm
by boovy
thanks a lot ! i use this tool now , good work :D

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:11 pm
by elpiulas
Hi, thanks for you effort!! Im very interested in this tool. I use an iMac Core i3 win my new Gaia. I tryin your app, and seems to communicate gaia-imac. The programs tells me in the lower windows every parameter when I tweak for example cutoff or press any key. But when I try to edit or view the parameters of any patch the fields are empty!!

Sorry, I don't speak/write English very well.

Thanks

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:34 pm
by Grauw
Hey elpiulas,

Yeah I got a similar report from another Mac user. It seems the GAIA somehow doesn’t respond to the data requests that I send. It is supposed to look like the screenshots here.

Could you do me a favour and send me an email (address here) or private message with the contents of the log panel at the bottom after selecting a couple of things in the tree on the left (e.g. patch common and arpeggios)? Maybe from that I can derive the cause of the problem.

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:00 am
by pez
Hey Grauw, has anybody sent you what you need to fix the problem? I'm really diggin' what you're doing for us mate, and unfortunately I get the same problem. If there's anything you need, just let me know. I'd be glad to help you out :)

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:34 pm
by Grauw
Hey pez, yeah, elpiulas is testing some things out for me.

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:31 pm
by elpiulas
Hello, I have a MAC and the GaiaTools does not work properly. But my latest tests I run the program under Parallels inside OSX. This way the tool works perfectly. You have to install the USB driver for windows of course. I have installed Windows XP SP3.

This is for all MAC users to confirm that the tool works under Parallels Destktop for MAC.

Bye..

Alberto.
Barcelona.

Mac OS X compatibility

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:02 pm
by Grauw
Hey,

Regarding the mentioned Mac OS X problems, I found this:

Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 (Dec.3rd 2009) changes things in terms of JVM midi support. With this update the world's most advanced operating system does not need a third party Midi service provider like mmj for javax.sound.midi to access hardware anymore. Here is Apple's release notes, see Radar #3261490 under JavaSound.

Second: You may still want it, though
Apple's java Midi implementation appears a bit half-hearted. It does not consider MIDI data with status bytes >= 0xF0 to be valid (i.e. does not work with sysex, MIDI clock, timecode etc.), ignores timestamps on Midi events, device names will default to only the port's name (without hints on the device this port belongs to) and there may be other things missing alike.


And those mentioned issues with status bytes sound an awful lot like the problem Mac users are experiencing. So the solution may be to install this:

http://www.humatic.de/htools/mmj.htm

Follow the instructions in the readme.txt inside. An alternative that seems to do the same:

http://www.mandolane.co.uk/swMandoMidi.html

Please try it, and let us know if it helps or not.

Re: Free Gaia Tool

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:30 pm
by pez
Thanks Grauw!

Hopefully I can try it our tonight.. You rock dude!! ;)