I've got an evolution mk425c which seems to work fine for me. I mean it doesn't feel like a piano or anything but for 100 euro, with lots of knobs, etc it's pretty good. Super easy install, plugin, turn on. Evolution are linux friendly. No effort required at all. Think the evolution stuff looks way better than the sister brand maudio stuff. It's pretty solid, i mine has been through 4 international airports in my backpack, with only a pretty minor stratch and a slightly bent knob. ;-) Loki

venerd?, 23 settembre 2005 alle 10:13:51, Loki Davison ha scritto: I also have the mk425c, and I agree it's a small lovely device. Major benefits are: 1) completely plug and play on linux 2) USB powered 3) small, handy and very portable 4) can send MMC commands (eg. to command ardour) 5) lot of configurable buttons and knobs But... I also have a roland PC180a and I have to say that the primary problem of mk425c is the keyboard itself. The Roland is much more playable (apart from having more octaves), you can control velocity much much better on the Roland. Note that neither one is a weighted keyboard. So my thought is that if you want a small MIDI controller for putting some notes and (lot of) controllers into the computer, the evolution is perfect. But if you want something to record keyboard performances... you might want to look for Roland or bigger, weighted master keyboards. I never tried an m-audio, nor any other keyboard. but I have a direct comparison between these two and here are my impressions. BTW, I use them both ;) HTH ciao -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net