Hello, I'm doing the first steps with a hammond clone on my eeepc 901 with Debian/squeeze. My intention was to use "drawbars" for fast access and therefore I tried the universal Korg nanokontrol, which has 9 sliders and usb-midi. Beatrix runs from its binary and outputs to /dev/dsp1. The midi-merge of my separate keyboard and the nanokontrol I do with qjackctl and alsa. Because beatrix has no native jack-support, I make use of a virtual midi-port provided by snd_virmidi. After loading this kernelmodule with 'modprobe snd_virmidi' a virtual raw midi-port appears in jacks connection window and its name "midi.device=/dev/snd/midiC3D0" I put in beatrix' default.cfg. With this midi-input I can now connect several midi devices, namely my keyboard, nanokontrol and a virtual keyboard (vkeybd) in jacks connection table. The 9 sliders of the nanokontrol can be freely assigned to have the right CC values from 70 - 78 for beatrix. This has to be done with the free Korg Editor and I used an old Mac mini for that. These settings are permanently stored as "scenes" in the nanokontrol, which has standard usb-audio and is powered by the usb-bus. But nanokontrol cannot send program change messages, only CCs. Because all sound-settings like percussion, vibrato, rotary for example are done by these programchanges in beatrix, I installed the Debian-package vkeybd, from which you can send all these parameters with just one mouse klick. Thanks to the instructions from: http://arnout.engelen.eu/index.php/Beatrix The expression pedal for volume swell and the sustain pedal for rotary slow/fast from my midi-keyboard works out of the box. A few things are left to be done for me. I want to have all midi- and dsp-interface-ids bootfix. And all needed programs should start from one desktop-link or script (beatrix, qjackctl with all connections and vkeybd). Eventually the virtual midi-connections can be scripted easier with aconnect instead of qjackctl. If someone uses aconnect for this purpose, it would be nice to read about ist. cheers, oz