alesisvsysex

Python tool for configuring Alesis V-Series MIDI controllers

Overview

The official tool for configuring these controllers only works on Windows. Fortunately, I was able to reverse engineer the SysEx protocol and implement this (eventually) cross-platform tool.

Currently, this software is only known to work on Linux, and probably only supports the Alesis V-25 controller. It includes a model for the parts of the SysEx protocol I was able to reverse (i.e., most of it), the ability to fetch and update the device config, and the ability to store and load configurations as files.

The GUI uses PyQt5, and the MIDI layer uses mido.

Dependencies

This software is written for Python 3.5+. It requires a system installation of PyQt5. Installing this dependency looks something like this on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

The remaining dependencies can be installed in a virtualenv using pip:

pip3 install -r requirements.pip3

Launching the application

From this directory, you can run python3 -malesisvsysex to launch the GUI.

An exception will immediately be thrown if the MIDI controller cannot be detected. If you unplug the controller after starting the application, you're in for a bad time. Eventually I'll make this more well-behaved, but for time time being just make sure the device is plugged in before you start.

Contributing

Any contributions of bug fixes or improvements will be greatly appreciated, including adding support for a different OS or controller.

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license. A copy of the license can be found in the LICENSE file.