Hello Tghomas! I might not be abele to answer you completely. But here's what I can say: 1. VirMIDI is NOT connect to any hardware. It is just used to a) simulate MIDI in a computer without any MIDI, if you run an application which requires it. b) route MIDI data internally. I don't know, if there is an ALSA driver to use the serial-port as a MIDI device. A MIDI to USB cable won't solve that directly. If your keyboard has usual MIDI in/out/thru jacks, which it should, you could invest a little moeny in a USB MIDI card, if you computer has no MIDI. What soundcard do you currentl7y have? Does it have MIDI or game port jacks? Kindly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user