On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:45:37 +0000 Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > One such tool may be a Yamaha keyboard, with the representative at the > > store I am visiting sharing that they feel sure the USB drivers for midi > > in Yamaha do not support Linux? > > > > Hi, > > If its a USB MIDI standard compliant device, then the linux USB MIDI driver > will work. > > If Yamaha ship thier own driver for OsX and Windows, then it probably won't > work, unless you use a hardware MIDI cable and a seperate MIDI USB dongle. > > Hope that helps, -Harry The earlier USB Yamahas were class compliant (and I think some had both MIDI and USB). However I expect the 'incompatibility' is probably in the PC based configuration extras where there would be user-friendly sys-ex stuff etc. Although not impossible, I'd be surprised if they went to the trouble of going non-standard at the basic level. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
