How to use both outputs on 1x2 USB MIDI adapter?

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Greetings alsa-user list,

Just acquired a Edirol UM-2EX, a little USB MIDI adapter with 1 input and 2 outputs, and I only seem to be able to use one of the outputs. Plugging it into my Eee PC (Arch Linux with ALSA 1.0.20) creates /dev/midi1, to which I can read and write with no trouble. Traffic shows up on the MIDI in and the first MIDI out. But the second MIDI out is silent - does anyone know how I could open it, perhaps through the ALSA library, or somehow getting a /dev/midi2, or otherwise?

In /dev, the UM-2EX shows up as /dev/midi1 and /dev/snd/midiC1D0. In /proc, it shows up as card1 (card0 being the Eee's internal soundcard) with a midi0 inside. 

cat /proc/asound/cards shows:

1 [UM2        ]: USB-Audio - UM-2
EDIROL UM-2 at usb-0000:00:1d.0-2, full speed

And cat /proc/asound/card1/midi0 reveals two outputs:

UM-2

Output 0
  Tx bytes : 0
Output 1
  Tx bytes : 0
Input 0
  Rx bytes : 0
Input 1
  Rx bytes : 0

For comparison, I've got the UM-1EX too, the 1x1 version, and its /proc entry reveals:

UM-1

Output 0
  Tx bytes : 0
Input 0
  Rx bytes : 0

So, in some sense, I know ALSA is aware of the UM-2's second output - just have no clue how to access it.

Google, ALSA API docs, and mailing list archives haven't gotten me too far. I did turn up this old thread (no replies, sadly) in which someone was having the same problem with a different adapter: http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2003/4/3/94625

Will be happy to provide the output of any other commands or tests. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Evan DeMond
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