Hi, Adaptec has siad: ASPI is not supported in any version of Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 and should not be installed. No update will be available to support these operating systems. Now, I am no expert but I can see that whilst my adaptec SCSI card is recognised happily in device manager, transferring via SCSI due to the missing ASPI layer is not possible. So what are the options?
I see them in three groups, can anyone suggest anything more? Preferable and easy 1a) Get another SCSI card other than adaptec who is still updating ASPI for W7 1b) Get another ASPI layer (e.g.
From Nero?) I would just try this but don't have access to the studio comp for two weeks 1c) Get a SCSI ZIP drive which I know will work on W7 (drivers and ASPI) and go PC-ZIP- sampler Not so preferable 2a)Install VMWare running XP and when I want to ship samples to the sampler fire that up with some old software and get it done 2b)Get a little XP machine for the sampler. Actually - my old work laptop is XP but obviously no PCI slot for the adaptec. Any ideas here?
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Currently am transferring via midi which really isn't the end of the world. But, y'know: Any other ideas please pretty please? Certainly will, Sir / Madam: Another option has been added along the VMWare route but looks more preferable: Then try and install ASPI on that.
You get a free copy of XP and it's MS with MS so hopefully a better chance of success. Gutted though, I am away with work until 22nd Feb and then the Mrs expects me to make up for lost Valentines or some such punishment for leaving her alone for 10mins:grumble::teef: so it will be a little while. famous last words But with all these options I am pretty confident.
/famous last words Thanks again for your support. Lolz at this thread Winston - googled for help as I am just building a new PC and am in my third (and last) day of SCSI HELLLLLL ffs! All was working fine on XP but kept running into 2GB memory limitations and so upgraded to 7 64-bit. I know it's a while ago but did you have any luck with your SCSI transfers and 'Windows XP Mode for Windows 7' in the end? If not, you could try FrogApsi (for 64bit Windows) - I've had partial success with my Yammy A4000 - as expected some of my old PC sampler apps randomly work with this kind of wrapped SPTI scuzzy chain and some (the cool ones) don't (this is SCSI Hell after all ) Error msg no SMDI device detected - grrr LoL. Thanks for the ideas H-Arms and Rob Gee. A curse upon the natively unsupported Win7 64-bit ASPI layer!!
I think somebody out there must have a solution for this type of setup - or am I wrong and nobody in the universe has a fully working A3000/A4000/A5000 SCSI setup working on this platform? Please post your success stories! I bought a silent tiny XP pc($25 ebay) and networked it to my Win 7 pc I kind of don't want to buy / have an extra physical Windows XP computer on my desk just to manage the sampler's SCSI transfer and apps. I'm trying to simplify my setup so would like to have everything running on one box. This would be my last resort workaround unless I sell the Yammy and go software only (which would be a shame cos it's a great sampler with 2 HDDs full of years of hard work containing well organised chopped beats and tuned basses).
You can pick up Adaptec PCI/PCIe cards with full W7 x64 support quite cheap on eBay now too. I already have a couple of adaptec SCSI cards which are recognised and can work with Win7 64 bit (AHA-2940 plus a 19160 with 64 bit drivers). It's odd that SMDIXfer.exe works fine for SCSI sample transfer on my Win 7 kit but other also useful programs like Awave, Soundforge 9 and Zero-X Beatcreator (ZX BC is an old, but lovely 'must have' app) do not work. RG - I will try and test Soundforge 8 - thanks for the tip. Here a couple of screengrabs showing my detected devices and ASPI status: And I have also used the FrogASPI 64-bit SPTI hack - (renamed WNAPSI32.DLL driver put in my syswow folder) aspichk.exe reports WNASPI32.DLL is present as expected (apparently the other 3 files don't matter). 'You’ll see that some files are reported as missing. You do not have to care about that though, ASPI32.SYS would’ve been the 32-Bit kernel driver, WOWPOST.EXE is a 16-Bit Windows ASPI helper tool, WINASPI.DLL the corresponding 16-Bit Windows driver.
None of those are needed. Now, that FrogASPI is mapping all ASPI calls to SPTI.' Source: Maybe SPTI does not detect / support SMDI in Win7 64 as my sampler is not detected by all the apps, even though it is detected by the O.S.?
More details about SMDI here: Thanks for any further suggestions. Thanks H-Arms - yes I have thought about installing a CF / SD caddy in the floppy drive bay of the A4000. Didn't really want to go down this road as I gather that there is some hardware compatibility risk plus the extra expense / nause of installing. More importantly, I don't think Awave and Translator directly support the obscure Yamaha file system format so I guess this method is good for plain.wavs, but not their associated mappings / Programs.
Really and truly, on my old XP build, ZX BeatCreator was a rather outdated but amazing app with tight SCSI integration for mangling samples and then painless batch transfers with automated keyboard mapping - wish I could get it working again! Anyways, just got my new i5-4690K CPU, 16gigs of RAM and ASUS Z-97A mobo delivered so a fun day of blatting and rebuilding lies ahead - makes a welcome change from.SCSI HELLLL. I just wanna make some music LoL.
Have you tried any other ASPI layer other than Frog or Adaptec? I kinda remember a hack of someone getting their old scsi scanner to work under win7 64. The card readers aimed toward music kits have been tested on much older gear than the A4000, I don't see compatibility being that big of an issue. I got readers in both my Akai and E-mu that work fine. Awave can read my RS7000 R2P/R3P files and pull out my chopped wavs and midi, but creating programs I don't know, never needed to.
I got a bunch of of old programs I've grown accustomed to. ReCycle 2.0, Wavelab, Millenium Pro, Zoeos.
How does BeatCreator compare with ReCycle? Click to expand.I don't know anything about vmware - is this a virtual XP machine run as a kind of application on my Win7 64-bit kit which is running Cubase? If so would the virtual XP be able to have it's own Control Panel with an exclusive set of drivers which should fix this 32-bit only SCSI / ASPI layer problem? And while this virtual PC was simultaneously running I could quickly switch windows i.e Alt-Tab back to Cubase on the physical 64-bit kit once i've finished editing / sending files to the sampler? If this is the case then this would be great!!