A SDK for the System 8?

[mockba_the_borg]

We can dream, right?

I heard Korg has one for their Prologue (and others).
Why not have one for the System 8 (and others)?

This would allow for a lot of new content, there is a lot of creative people out there who could come up with much awesome stuff for the System 8. And then we could finally have the "open synth" that Roland always promised and failed to deliver (who else here has a Varios?).
I am actually considering getting a Korg Prologue JUST because of its SDK.

Why don't we start a petition? I would sign for sure.

Cheers!
The Borg.

[Saxifraga]

Roland will do nothing for us. I asked them about the file format of the Fantom Gx instruments to write my own librarian, but they don't do fuck for their customers. They abandoned the Fantom OS without a librarian that can handle the multi sample patches. How lazy is that? Not even Korg does that and they sell you lazy shit from 1995 in an emulator on top of a Linux OS.
It's always the bare minimum. We can be happy the System-8 has gotten the JX-3P as a third plug out.

[GilgaFrank]

I've also tried to get information on data formats for Roland products and come up against a brick wall. The company's insistence on proprietary instead of class-compliant drivers, refusal top open-source anything and engineered obsolescence is immensely frustrating for third-party developers. Imagine for a moment how useful it would be to be able to develop one's own Aira plugouts to replicate Moog or ARP circuits or to adapt the SH-101 into a polyphonic synthesiser, something that will never happen while Roland think they can wring more money from keeping the format closed-source.