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roland-mc909-utils

v1.0.1

Published

Roland MC-909 Groovebox Scripts Utilities for ACIDizing and preparing samples, BULK IMPORT

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Readme

Roland MC-909 Groovebox Scripts Utilities for ACIDizing and preparing samples | BULK IMPORT

Description

This is a set of scripts for ACIDizing and preparing WAV files samples, oneshots and audio loops for Roland MC-909 Groovebox sampler. These scripts solve the following issues :

  • no more need to import samples manually one by one or use third party tool like MC-909SampleEditor ! just copy all prepared samples to the SmartMedia card or the MC-909 internal storage, bulk process all your samples in one go !
  • no more need to set loop tempo manually on the MC-909 ! use ACID metadata from WAV files
  • no more need to set loop points manually on the MC-909 ! use sustain loop points from WAV files
  • no more need to set sample root key manually on the MC-909 ! use filename from WAV files

Requirements

  • Node v20 or above
  • TS-NODE to run the scripts as they are written in TypeScript
  • VSCode (recommended)

Installation

  • npm i or pnpm i to install the dependencies

Features

For samples loops

Support ACID chunk in wav files:

  • Set ACID beatmapped tempo
  • Set ACIDidized loop length in beats
  • Set sample tempo based on previous ACID metadata, no more need to set loop tempo manually on the MC-909 !

NB: ACID chunk metadata can be edited manually with audio editor like SoundForge

For samples oneshots

  • support standard WAV sustain loop points and convert them to Roland MC-909 loop points, no more need to set loop points manually on the MC-909 !
  • set sample root key based on filename, no more need to set sample root key manually on the MC-909 !

Sample preparation

  • Although the wavefile package support resampling and bitdepth reduction, they are not implemented in the scripts yet, samples for MC-909 must be 44.1Khz 16bits stereo or mono, so you must prepare your samples before using the scripts with a batch processing tool like SoundForge or EZ CD Audio Convert to prepare the samples to the 44.1Khz samplerate and 16 bit depth.
  • for oneshots samples, root key can be provided directly in the filename like this : BA MySample Cm.wav or BA MySample C.wav, the root key is extracted from the filename and set in the MC-909 sample metadata, supported root keys are : C, Cm, C#, C#m, D, Dm, D#, D#m, E, Em, F, Fm, F#, F#m, G, Gm, G#, G#m, A, Am, A#, A#m, B, Bm with C being a C3 (midi note 60), C# being a C#3 (midi note 61) and so one until B being a B3 (midi note 71)

Scripts usage

  • All scripts are located in ./scripts directory
  • Before running any scripts, edit SAMPLE_ROOT_DIR to the location of your samples that must be imported to the MC-909, the scripts will process all the samples in the directory and subdirectories.
  • The script can be run directly from the VSCode run icon or with the following command : or ts-node ./scripts/scriptname.ts or node --no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm ./scripts/scriptname.ts
  • a script report is generated at the root of this package : ./report.log

ACID Scripts

  • set-acid-beatmapped-tempo: set ACID beatmapped tempo
  • set-acid-loop-1beat: set ACIDized loop length in beats : 1 beat loop length
  • set-acid-loop-4beat: set ACIDized loop length in beats : 4 beats loop length
  • set-acid-loop-16beat: set ACIDized loop length in beats : 16 beats loop length
  • set-acid-oneshot: set ACID oneshot metadata
  • check-acid-loop-tempo : check ACID loop tempo for a targetted tempo, set TARGET_TEMPO_BPM to the desired tempo

MC-909 Scripts

  • 1-gather-stereo2mono : detect mono samples using 2 channels, they should be converted 1 mono channel for file size reduction as 2 channels are identical
  • 2-check-names : check if the samples are named correctly and respect the 16 characters limitation of the MC-909
  • 3-check-samples : check if the samples are 44.1Khz 16bits stereo or mono, which is the sample format used by MC-909
  • 4-count-sampleslots : count the number of sampleslots used by all the samples contained in the SAMPLE_ROOT_DIR

5-process-dir script

  • 5-process-dir : mains script to process all the samples in the SAMPLE_ROOT_DIR and subdirectories and rename the samples to smplxxxx.wav format where xxxx is the sample number of MC-909 starting at SAMPLE_START_INDEX, the folders and subfolders are processed by alphabetical order.
  • This script check wav format 44.1kHz/16bits and creates the Roland MC909 chunk metadata for each sample with
  • sample name based on the filename
  • for loops :
    • tempo based on ACID metadata, beatmapped or ACIDized loop length in beats
  • for oneshots :
    • write loop points based on WAV sustain loop points
    • write root key based on filename

DUMP CHUNK Script

  • dump-chunks: dump all chunks of a wav file to chunk.json format

Misc

Library and scripts based on the following packages:

  • wavefile https://www.npmjs.com/package/wavefile
  • uttori-audio-wave https://github.com/uttori/uttori-audio-wave
  • uttori-data-tools https://github.com/uttori/uttori-data-tools