Re: [LAU] MIDI keyboard compatability

David Griffith wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, ANDERSON GREGORY wrote:
>
>> I am looking to buy a MIDI keyboard controller but I am
>> having trouble coming up with a site that has
>> compatibility info on it. Could someone point me in the
>> right direction?
>
> Any MIDI keyboard will work as long as you have a MIDI interface that
> works. Trickiness comes into play with USB/MIDI keyboards. Those are
> essentially USB/MIDI interfaces tucked into a keyboard. As
> previously-discussed here, USB/MIDI devices may or may not work with
> Linux. Roland/Edirol and Korg are two brands known to work.

When ALSA isn't fighting over which sound card to load in which order on
my system, the E-MU Xmidi1x1 works just fine. It only needs the
snd-usb-audio driver on my system.

But that's just the USB<>MIDI interface, can't give advice about
professional keyboards.

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David
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