[LAU] Yamaha usb midi drivers and Linux?

[John Murphy]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:54:48 +0100 (CET), F. Silvain wrote:

> Karen Lewellen, Dec 14 2015:
> > I am visiting sharing that they  feel sure the USB  drivers for midi in 
> > Yamaha do not support Linux?
> I've once connected a Yamaha Motif synth to a Linux box. Yamaha isn't known for extra drivers. That's usually Roland's problem. If ytou need more than MIDI it might be a totally different thing though.
> ...
> 
> Ta-ta

The Yamaha Motif keyboards have Linux 'inside', which annoyed me a little
while I was using one on Linux. Would have been nice to have some of the features provided for MS Windows customers. But I read that the development
of the version they use (MontaVista) gave some code back to mainstream.

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