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... -- Atte http://atte.dk http://a773.dk