On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:27:35PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:22:16PM +0100, Jos? Pedro Ferreira wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I'm thinking about buying a 25 key keyboard to do some composition under > > > linux. Is there any list of recommended devices, known to work OK? I've > > > thought about the M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 or the M-Audio Axiom 25. Anyone > > > uses them? Any other good suggestions? > > I had an Oxygen 8 (v1). It worked fine, but two octaves gets > > frustrating very quickly, and the keys felt kind of flimsy. A HOWTO > > for use with Alsa is here: > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/USBMidiDevices > I would recommend against the old Oxygen because of the hassles you > get with having to install special firmware on every machine you want > to use it. I don't know, if the v2 version still needs this, but for > the old one it's an unnecessary pain. Thankfully M-Audio's newer > USB-midi devices don't do this silly stuff anymore. If you are after something small, light and easily portable, the m-audio O2 is all of those. I brought it along with my notebook in a backpack to LAC07. Didn't get a chance to use it there, but that's a different story... -Eric Rz. (have we mentioned that the stream team needs more volunteers?) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
