[linux-audio-dev] Interesting USB MIDI master keyboards, do t he work with Linux ?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sat Nov 2 14:38:00 UTC 2002


Hi,
Benno Senoner hat gesagt: // Benno Senoner wrote:

> Ok if the Edirol keyboards support standard MIDI then there shouldn't be any
> problems using them under Linux, but since USB has a much bigger bandwidth
> than serial MIDI, I that the timing for notes that belong to large chords  is
> more precise. Can someone confirm this ?
> BTW: the Midiman site lists Linux as an OS in their driver search page but
> nothing comes up when searching for product drivers.
> Is their stance very closed ? Do  they not even release specs ? 

If I remember correctly, there were people here, who had the Oxygen8
working  with USB. Internally it has a Midiman 1x1 USB interface, that
should even work with latest ALSA as USB-Midi. I have the Oxygen8, but
I'm using it via Midi-In. 

That's okay for me, I cannot play that fast anyway :)

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__



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