1 Sep
2017
1 Sep
'17
11:05 p.m.
Hi
I have an arturia beatstep pro, that unfortunately needs a win/mac-only sofrware, midi
control center (mcc for short) for a USB midi connection to upgrade firmware, even change
settings and save projects. Previously I ran win7 in virtualbox, but today I tried running
mcc through wine, and it worked. Almost.
It doesn't recognize the beatstep pro. In windows it works like this: If the beatstep
pro is connected (USB) while the mcc is running, the beatstep pro boots in a special
"update" mode ("upd" in display) resulting in it getting a different
device name, which I suspect is what mcc is looking for.
The beatstep pro can be forced to boot in update-mode by pressing, record+play+stop while
powering on, which changes the name:
normal mode:
atte@pandrup:~$ aconnect -io| grep BeatStep
client 20: 'Arturia BeatStep Pro' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'Arturia BeatStep Pro MIDI 1'
1 'Arturia BeatStep Pro MIDI 2'
update mode (as is the rest of the output):
atte@pandrup:~$ aconnect -io| grep BeatStep
client 20: 'BeatStepPro Updater' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'BeatStepPro Updater MIDI 1'
atte@pandrup:~$ ll -t /dev/ | head
total 0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Sep 1 22:57 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3.3K Sep 1 22:56 char
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 25 Sep 1 22:56 dmmidi1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 18 Sep 1 22:56 midi1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 320 Sep 1 22:56 snd
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 7 Sep 1 22:50 vcs7
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 135 Sep 1 22:50 vcsa7
crw------- 1 root root 244, 1 Sep 1 22:50 drm_dp_aux1
crw------- 1 root root 244, 0 Sep 1 22:50 drm_dp_aux0
The devices char, mmidi1, midi1 and snd appears at the same time as the beatstep pro is
plugged in, so I guess either dmmidi1 and midi1 are the ones to target.
atte@pandrup:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader
Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b573 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1c7a:0570 LighTuning Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0489:e09f Foxconn / Hon Hai
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1c75:0207
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Obviously it's a lots guesswork, but I'd appreciate any input that might get me
nearer a working solution. Can I change anything in wines configuration? Could anything
else be done to make mcc in wine see the beatstep pro midi device?
Thanks in asvance...
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