[LAU] Questions about Cakewalk (Roland) A-500S

Hi all I am interested in buying a midi keyboard plus some "device to get midi signal on my computer". I was looking on the roland/edirol website, since I heard that hw from that brand is usually well supported by Linux, when I found the Cakewalk A-500S USB Midi Keyboard, that seems quite interesting to me. Does anyone own one? If so, I'd like to ask the owner(s) some details about the compaitibility of this device with Linux, if everything works well or there are any known issues / lacks of functionality; I see an USB connector on the side: when connecting to a computer, I guess that it should be recognised directly as a Midi device? Or I need a USB Midi interface, like the UM-1G or similar? Best regards -- Samuele ~redShadow~ Santi ---------------------------------------------------------------- * redshadow[at]hackzine.org * redshadowhack[at]gmail.com * http://hackzine.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- "[A-Za-z0-9\-_]*\\[at\\][A-Za-z0-9\-_]*\\[dot\\][a-zA-Z]*" ---------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key signature: 050D 3E9F 6E0B 44CE C008 D1FC 166C 3C7E EB26 4933 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux-User: #440008 GENTOO User since 2008-01-01 - ex DEBIAN SID user ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free!" -- Linus Torvalds -- Samuele ~redShadow~ Santi ---------------------------------------------------------------- * redshadow[at]hackzine.org * redshadowhack[at]gmail.com * http://hackzine.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- "[A-Za-z0-9\-_]*\\[at\\][A-Za-z0-9\-_]*\\[dot\\][a-zA-Z]*" ---------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key signature: 050D 3E9F 6E0B 44CE C008 D1FC 166C 3C7E EB26 4933 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux-User: #440008 GENTOO User since 2008-01-01 - ex DEBIAN SID user ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free!" -- Linus Torvalds