Comments on: Hardware Upgrade At the Labs

By: Jaco Kroon

Jaco Kroon — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:36:27 +0000

As a matter of fact, no. The USB “driver” is a standard USB Audio Driver (The Windows/Mac driver may have more functionality). So just load the snd-usb-audio module and you should gain access to the sound-card interface, but more importantly (for me at least), the MIDI interface.

From there on I’m still experimenting, but from what I understand there is software available that will at least allow one to copy patches to/from the GNX4. At the moment a tool called vsex is looking relatively promising.

As for recording, you should be able to hook audacity directly onto the “sound card” presented by the snd-usb-audio driver.

I’ll post more info on http://www.kroon.co.za/howto.php?howto=gnx4_linux as I figure out more.

By: Ron Bieber

Ron Bieber — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:11:27 +0000

The USB drivers it requires only exist under Windows — and Guitar Tracks Pro, the recording software that comes with it is also a Windows application.

There is other multi-track recording software like audacity for Linux, but I do not think the drivers exist for the GNX4 on any other operating system but Windows.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:03:59 +0000

Hello.. I dual boot debian gnu/linux and xp on my stationary computer. I’m wondering wether the GNX4 works at all through linux. That is, is it only the software for it that doesn’t run or is it impossible to use it at all in linux?

thanks!