The accedit project page

The Cavagnolo Odyssee Pro-Orchestra is an electronic accordion with a MIDI interface. It is a wonderful instrument with a lot of settings. In fact, there are so many that it can take a lot of time for a musician to tune the instrument. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do it. Functionality is provided to upload or download the settings of the instrument to or from a computer, but there's no software to do something useful with it and Cavagnolo has no intention to develop it. This is a pity, since it would make the instrument even more valuable than it already is. Many owners of the instrument would love to have some kind of editing software that makes it easier to modify settings. It will save them literally hours that could better be spent actually playing some music and will make the instrument more valuable. The goal of this project is writing such an editor with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

Accedit is Free Software. It is written in Java 2 (Standard edition, v1.4.2) so the application can be run on different operating systems.

A major difficulty in this project is the format in which the settings of the instrument are saved. This is done using MIDI System Exclusive Messages, but no details of the contents of the message are released by Cavagnolo (although the MIDI standard specifies that this is required). Fortunately, this is already (almost) solved thanks to the hard work of Eddy Buyck.

Download and install

The current version of accedit is 0.2. To install:

Windows

1. Download the file accedit-0.2.zip;
2. Unpack in an appropriate directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\) - a directory accedit-0.2 will be created;
3. Create a shortcut to accedit.bat in the accedit directory on the desktop or in the start menu;
4. Double-click on the shortcut to start the program.

Linux

1. Download the file accedit-0.2.zip
2. Unpack in an appropriate directory (usually /opt/) - a directory accedit-0.2 will be created;
3. Use the startup script /opt/accedit-0.2/accedit.sh;

Compiling from source

To compile accedit from source, you need to have the following software installed:

• Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 1.4.2. Another compatible compiler may also work, but this is not guaranteed.
• Ant
• JUnit

You can either download the source release or pull out the latest version from CVS. See the project summary page.

Report bugs

Please use the bug tracking system to report bugs. Before you do, please take the following guidelines into account:

• Is the bug already reported? Take some time to search for the bug.
• Please provide me with every information that is necessary to reproduce and fix the bug, e.g.:
  • Accedit version;
  • System information: Operating system and version, JRE version;
  • A precise description of the steps necessary to (re)produce the bug;
  • Expected vs. observed behaviour;
  • If applicable, the accedit project file or exported settings file;
  • If it's a crash, include the error.log file;

Feature requests

Use the feature request tracking system to submit feature requests.