On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@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

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