On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Thijs van severen <thijsvanseveren(a)gmail.com there is a reason why MIDI is a standard protocol. the only way that a MIDI device is not Linux compatible is if it doesn't actually send MIDI, but instead uses some proprietary protocol which is then converted by a device driver into MIDI that can be seen by apps on the computer. there are very few such devices. the question to ask is whether it has its own device driver - if it does not, then its about 99.78% certain that it will work on Linux or with any other MIDI capable platform/device.