> I'm not sure if I got all your questions right, but I'd summarize the > situation as follows. > > - The Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 is fully supported by Linux. It > can playback and record audio just like under Windows or Mac OS X. Great! > - It can also receive and send out MIDI messages over the standard 5-pin > connectors. The userspace interface is standard ALSA MIDI. Awesome :) > - The LEDs are controlable via the ALSA mixer/control interface (see the > amixer command line control interface for example) But aren't the LEDs dependent on the hardware switches? > - The three buttons and the wheel are exported as Linux input interface, > just like the buttons on the Rig Kontrol 2 and 3. You would need to > write your own software to actually use them (which is easy), or write > some mappings for existing software (which should even be easier). > Renato explained that nicely in his reply to your post. Yes. I think i can hack something that emulates a MIDI interface, using ALSA or JACK. > - Don't let the NI manuals confuse you. What NI says about the buttons > producing MIDI events only refers to their own mapping application. We > transport button events etc. via a propietary kernel interface on OS X > and Windows, and the NI mapping application takes this information and > can optionally feed faked MIDI messages into the MIDI stream. > The Linux driver itself doesn't do anything like that, but you're free > to write a similar application that does the same thing under Linux. Yes, that's what I had in mind :) > - There are currently no devices ready for purchase that comply to the > USB audio class version 2 standard. So, I assume this one is not standard... well, otherwise it'd be using usb-audio instead, no? > This is mainly because the > standard wasn't implemented in any operating system until some months > ago. That situation has changed for ALSA and Mac OS X recently, and > so we can expect to see more devices in the future. They'll be all > supported then without any special driver. Stay tuned for a brave new > world ;) Great :) > Hope that answers (most) of your questions. If you want any more > information, please let me know. Feel free to forward this mail to the > LAU mailing list. Thanks a lot for your very detailed answer! Cheers, Pedro _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
