[LAU] Yamaha usb midi drivers and Linux?

[Will Godfrey]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:45:37 +0000
Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > One such tool may be a Yamaha keyboard, with the representative at the
> > store I am visiting sharing that they  feel sure the USB  drivers for midi
> > in  Yamaha do not support Linux?
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If its a USB MIDI standard compliant device, then the linux USB MIDI driver
> will work.
> 
> If Yamaha ship thier own driver for OsX and Windows, then it probably won't
> work, unless you use a hardware MIDI cable and a seperate MIDI USB dongle.
> 
> Hope that helps, -Harry

The earlier USB Yamahas were class compliant (and I think some had both MIDI
and USB). However I expect the 'incompatibility' is probably in the PC based
configuration extras where there would be user-friendly sys-ex stuff etc.
Although not impossible, I'd be surprised if they went to the trouble of going
non-standard at the basic level.

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