Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting USB MIDI master keyboards, do t he work with Linux ?
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 02:06:06 EET
> > AFAIK the Oxygen8 does not behave as a standard usb midi device, it uses a
> > "Midiman protocol" instead, so the standard drivers don't know what to do
> > with it. If you connect it and do an lsusb -v you don't see much...
>
> Ok if the Edirol keyboards support standard MIDI then there shouldn't be any
> problems using them under Linux, but since USB has a much bigger bandwidth
> than serial MIDI, I that the timing for notes that belong to large chords is
> more precise. Can someone confirm this ?
Not really, unless you are spreading those chords on several separate midi
outputs. If it just one, then it determines the bandwidth available.
Getting things faster to the interface will do nothing because it still
has to send the bytes to the external synth at the same old slow 31250
baud speed.
-- Fernando
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