[LAU] USB Compliant MIDI

[Philippe Bekaert]

Your keyboard most probably uses midi over usb, which is an open standard afaik. Linux supports it perfectly well. Any standards compliant usb cable should do, including usb extenders if you need. 

Best, ph

Philippe Bekaert

> Op 16 jun. 2022 om 00:06 heeft David W. Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On June 15, 2022 11:52:17 AM HST, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
>> I'm looking at the Casio WK 6600 keyboard and see that the old fashioned
>> MIDI connectors are replaced with a USB - B connector. Can anyone answer:
>> 
>> 1. These connections are okay to connect my linux desktop computer to the
>> keyboard using a standard USB A-B cable?
> 
> Yes.
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>> 2. How long can the MIDI cable be? I suppose if it's too short I could
>> always insert an extension cable?
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> I don't know if there's a length limit. I think if the keyboard's in the same room as the computer, I don't think cables will be long enough to matter.
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>> 3. Could I use a real MIDI cable from the computer and convert that to USB?
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> If the keyboard doesn't *have* a MIDI port, why bother? My USB<>MIDI adaptor is powered via USB, so I think it might have to be plugged into the computer's USB, not the keyboard's USB.
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