Re: [LAU] 25 key midi keyboards

Hallo,
Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:22:16PM +0100, Jos? Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I'm thinking about buying a 25 key keyboard to do some composition under
> > linux. Is there any list of recommended devices, known to work OK? I've
> > thought about the M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 or the M-Audio Axiom 25. Anyone
> > uses them? Any other good suggestions?
>
> I had an Oxygen 8 (v1). It worked fine, but two octaves gets
> frustrating very quickly, and the keys felt kind of flimsy. A HOWTO
> for use with Alsa is here:
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/USBMidiDevices

I would recommend against the old Oxygen because of the hassles you
get with having to install special firmware on every machine you want
to use it. I don't know, if the v2 version still needs this, but for
the old one it's an unnecessary pain. Thankfully M-Audio's newer
USB-midi devices don't do this silly stuff anymore.

Ciao

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