16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
9:27 a.m.
Rossen Apostolov wrote:
I'm thinking of buying Yamaha CS1X but can't
figure out how to
connect it to my ThinkPad.
A gameport <-> MIDI converter cable would be rather cheap, but your
laptop probably doesn't have a gameport, so it's a USB MIDI interface
then.
[...] Can anyone recommend me one?
Edirol UM-1S/E, Midiman MidiSport 1x1/Uno, Yamaha UX16 all work in
Linux. There isn't much of a difference between them, except that the
driver installation for MidiSport devices is slightly more
complicated.
And what driver do I need for it?
ALSA (0.9.x) has drivers for all of them; for the MidiSport, you'd
need an additional firmware download utility.
The OSS driver in kernels >= 2.4.20 supports them, too (but is
slightly buggy).
HTH
Clemens