-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/08/10 10:25, David Timms wrote: > On 15/08/10 05:30, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Moreover I would like to have a MIDI oriented comaintainer for my MIDI >> oriented packages. While I have a decent knowledge about MIDI, the > I'm hoping to control/read a Yamaha student level keyboard that has a > midi interface. > > Does any one have particular model numbers of a hardware USBII to MIDI > interface that either already works with Fedora or has workarounds to > get it going ? I'm have a Yamaha Motif XS and that pops up as 4 individual MIDI interfaces (internal keyboard/tone generator, external MIDI ports on the XS, sequencer control and remote control feature) immediately when connecting via USB. I've tried to connect a Yamaha PSR keyboard once with USB (just for fun) - - Don't recall exactly which model, could have beenm PSR-E413. Anyway, that *does not* work with MIDI, at least out of the box. However, I'd expect most keyboards being more "high-end" will have the proper USB MIDI interface built in and it should be detected rather quickly. I'd expect all Motif's (even older ones), MO/MM's and S90's to have this support - but you'd have to try it to be sure. I can only confirm Motif XS works. If an alternative could be a pure MIDI controller (without built-in sounds), Yamaha KX might also be an alternative. Unfortunately, the ALSA Yamaha page is not very updated: <http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Yamaha> Of course, you got Roland, Alesis, Clavia/Nord, Akai and M-Audio as well, to mention a few. But my experience is that Yamaha do have its own edge on the sounds, which sounds a lot better in my ears. If possible, I'd bring a Linux laptop to a music dealer and asked to try a few keyboards with your computer, to see if it works or not. You should be able to do 'cat /dev/midi??' and see some garbage popping out to your console when playing the keys. If that works, it should be pretty much supported. kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxo+UcACgkQIIWEatLf4HdLKwCfQfKgJNlNxRXUUCVDVZHY5ufn DX4AoLpoHm8R1u/538YDGP2UDHDpsXHP =OAXF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
