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(please keep in mind that I'm an EE noob, and have tinkered only with toy uC, etc).

Is it possible that the synthesizer is using a classic USB chip (such as the "FTDI") and doing serial over USB? If that's the case, it might be substantially easier to figure out the protocol.



Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't not need to install a driver to connect the synthesizer to a computer and use the editor, so maybe that's the case. Where do you think I should get started with that, or how can I find out it that's the case? Any resources about the topic are welcome.


I'd try to open the synthesizer and look for a chip that's next to the USB port and google its number.

Another option is to try to look at its ID using `lsusb`.

If it's a known USB-to-serial chip, then I guess you can mount it and read/write directly to it using pyserial.




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