[LAU] recommendations for midi controller keyboard

[Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 17:22 +0000, andy baxter wrote:

> Is there a usb standard for midi keyboards which linux knows about? The 

If a device is class-compliant it will work on Linux without any
trouble.  Basically, if it doesn't need a driver to work on a Mac, it'll
work on Linux.

> other thing I'm looking into is a friend of mine has a Nord Electro 61 
> which he wants to be able to play into his linux machine. It has a usb 
> out - is there a reasonable chance that if I just plugged it in with a 
> standard usb cable I could get it working?

Try it and see - it should appear as another set of MIDI ports if it
does.

Gordon