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#511159 - 09/02/25 09:35 AM OS Lionstracs Groove X-6 please help!
Sandor76 Offline
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Registered: 09/01/25
Posts: 2
Hello everyone!


I apologize to everyone, I don't speak English, so I'm forced to use Google Translate. I hope everything will be understandable.

I bought a Lionstracs Groove X-6 synthesizer.
Unfortunately, it didn't work due to a HDD failure, so I got an SSD drive. I currently have Win10 installed on it. Inside, one of the PCI cards contains 4 serial ports, with the following settings: 14400 baud,8,n,1. One is for the potentiometers and buttons, the other is the Fatar keyboard, the remaining two are the back panel midi ports. This will be 31250 Baud through a processor, standard midi speed.

The potentiometers and buttons send F0 ..... CC SysEx messages, which is not suitable for immediate use for me. The situation is complicated by the fact that the potentiometers encode the current settings according to the MARTIX table.
I am working on these, but I am stuck on the LED control of the buttons. They are probably also controlled based on individual SySex messages, but I have not yet managed to decipher the structure of the messages, so I cannot control them yet.

If anyone has any information about this, I would be happy to receive it, it would make my situation much easier.

An ISO image would be very helpful, then I could monitor the serial communication with a logic analyzer.

The sound card uses a VT1712 chip, which is also used by M-Audio sound cards.
In this regard, I managed to find out that lionstracs uses its own VID/PID identifier, but does not write the IC configuration settings into the external i2c eeprom, but configures them under linux.
(So, for example, which pin of the DAC is connected to which pin.) If I could find out this configuration, then by writing this into the eeprom and rewriting the appropriate VID/PID identifier, it would be possible to match it to one of the M-Audio (e.g. delta) types under Windows.

To be honest, this is not so important to me under Win10, because the motherboard sound card can also be used on ASIO at the moment. Maybe we can use a USB external sound card for better sound quality. Roland canvas, giglad, Varranger2, other programs work on it. A simple method is to set the "Hairless MIDI <-> Serial Bridge" to the Keyboard serial port. (Except for the controls) Or you need a virtual MIDI port.

The touchscreen can work using the "EETI eGalaxTouch Windows Driver
", but unfortunately the glass under the touch foil is cracked, I still need to replace it. The display itself uses an LVDS port, if it ever breaks I will replace it. You can get a replacement relatively cheaply, even with an HDMI port connection.

So my request is if anyone can help with an original disk image, and in addition to that, even with the "Internal" communication related to the LED control, please help!

THANKS in advance!

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#511165 - 09/05/25 09:13 AM Re: OS Lionstracs Groove X-6 please help! [Re: Sandor76]
Sandor76 Offline
Junior Member

Registered: 09/01/25
Posts: 2
- If anyone has an ISO file for it, I really need it now, because the LED control still doesn't work unfortunately. frown I would like to find out the internal hardware communication with a logic analyzer...

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