11 Jul
2010
11 Jul
'10
7:58 p.m.
I have a Rig Kontrol 2 from Native Instruments. It
does have a driver
for Alsa, and I'm happily using it with JACK. AFAIK the driver is the
same for all the NI devices, snd-usb-caiaq; when I was trying to get
mine to work (wasn't straightforward due to bugs in the driver which
the dev has worked out, now it should be plug-play) I found in some
places reports of attempts of using the Audio Kontrol 1 on linux - the
NI forums I guess, I could try to fetch them out if google is not your
friend.
I've found some of them, but I found no-one using it for recording
(with Ardour or whatever).
So for the audio part there should be no difficulties
IMHO, and
if there were the dev (which is on the alsa mailing list) is a very
friendly guy and I guess he would help you.
Good, good :)
BUT: I don't know if the things (knobs, buttons
etc.) on the Audio
Kontrol 1 produce MIDI, however I doubt it, since the ones on my RK2
don't - they produce HID-like events though, that is it is recognized
as sort of a keyboard or mouse.
In the manual, they say you can choose between MIDI and "key
commands". However, it seems that the mapping is done by some software
that needs to be running. Is it like this in your RK2? I guess that's
the HID events you're referring too... in that case I could just use
puredata as you say, or create some simple program for doing it. I
could live with that.
How does the caiaq driver handle these events? How do you capture them?
I wouldn't recommend it to someone who can still
buy
something that sends out straight midi (I bought my RK2 before moving
to linux).
Yes, but the problem right now is that Firewire is out of question (as
I have some bogus Ricoh chipset), and there are not many USB2 devices
working right now... I'd love to be proven wrong on this one :)
So all in all I bet you could get it working, but
probably (unless it
sends out MIDI) you'd have to put together some pd patch or sc code.
That wouldn't be a big deal, I could hack something... I just want to
make sure that I won't end up with some piece of hardware that has no
hope of ever being used on Linux.
Thanks a lot!
Pedro