On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:45:37 +0000
Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen
<klewellen(a)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.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.