[LAU] MIDI keyboard compatability

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Wed Nov 7 20:08:23 EST 2007


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On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:39:47PM -0000, arisstotle.54695488 at bloglines.com wrote:
> --- gnome at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> > > 
> > > david:
> 
> > >> David Griffith wrote:
> > >>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, ANDERSON    GREGORY
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I am looking to buy a MIDI keyboard controller but I
> am
> > >>>> having trouble coming up with a site that has
> > >>>> compatibility
> info on it. Could someone point me in the
> > >>>> right direction?
> > >>>
> 
> > >>> Any MIDI keyboard will work as long as you have a MIDI interface that
> 
> > >>> works.  Trickiness comes into play with USB/MIDI keyboards.  Those
> are
> > >>> essentially USB/MIDI interfaces tucked into a keyboard.  As
> >
> >>> previously-discussed here, USB/MIDI devices may or may not work with
> > >>> Linux.  Roland/Edirol and Korg are two brands known to work.
> > >>
> > >> When ALSA isn't fighting over which sound card to load in which order
> on
> > >> my system, the E-MU Xmidi1x1 works just fine.
> > > 
> > > In your
> modules settings file (mine is /etc/modules.d/alsa), set:
> > 
> > I don't have
> an /etc/modules.d directory. I have an /etc/modprobe.d 
> > directory.
> > 
> 
> > > alias snd-card-0 snd-<card1>
> > > alias snd-card-1 snd-<card2>
> > > etc.
> 
> > 
> > I found a file called "sound" in the modprobe.d directory. It already
> 
> > had an alias setting snd-card-0 to the intel sound driver. So I added
> an 
> > alias to it for the snd-usb-audio. Restarting only brought up error
> 
> > messages about usb device 2,2, and killed both the USB<>MIDI adapter and
> 
> > my external flash card reader. So I decided to go the other way - 
> >
> renamed the sound file to something else and restarted again. Then 
> > everything
> came up.
> > 
> > So far, audio has been working since then, but won't really
> know for awhile.
> > 
> > Running GNU/Debian Linux ...
> > 
> > -- 
> > David
> > gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> > authenticity, honesty, community
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> > Linux-audio-user mailing list
> > Linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> 
> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
> > 
> 
> use
> the vendor and product IDs from lsusb and lspci to give each alsa driver an
> index number to make sure that each driver gets put in the same spot each
> boot.
> 
> in my modprobe.d/alsa file I have:
> options snd-usb-audio index=1,2,3
> vid=0x08bb,0x0763,0x0c45 pid=0x2902,0x0199,0x1
> 7fd
> 

Are the indexes numbered from 0 or from 1?

- -ken
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