New subject: MIDI keyboard compatability

5 Nov 2007

david:
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  David Griffith wrote:
  On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, ANDERSON    GREGORY wrote:

  I am looking to buy a MIDI keyboard controller
but I am
 having trouble coming up with a site that has
 compatibility info on it. Could someone point me in the
 right direction? 
 Any MIDI keyboard will work as long as you have a MIDI interface that
 works.  Trickiness comes into play with USB/MIDI keyboards.  Those are
 essentially USB/MIDI interfaces tucked into a keyboard.  As
 previously-discussed here, USB/MIDI devices may or may not work with
 Linux.  Roland/Edirol and Korg are two brands known to work. 
 When ALSA isn't fighting over which sound card to load in which order on
 my system, the E-MU Xmidi1x1 works just fine. 
In your modules settings file (mine is /etc/modules.d/alsa), set:

alias snd-card-0 snd-<card1>
alias snd-card-1 snd-<card2>
etc.

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