Hello, Although I was a programmer a long, long, time ago in a company far, far away, I cannot seem to get the hang of complicated Linux packages which require complex actions just to get an "app installed" on a Linux machine. I have an Ensoniq ESQ1 which just seems unable to interact with any WIN/OS-based software, despite what people tout as easy-to-use programs. I have tried to download and install Linux MIDI items, and almost all of them require complex configuration even to get them into the system. All I really want to do at this point is get an application running which will upload and download patches; nothing yet in the way of realtime operations such as recording. A big part of this appears to be the MIDI hardware used as an interface; most of those "apps" expect to find the classic Roland MPU401, and those are scarce as could be these days. The old apps apparently cannot recognize anything based on USB ports. Yes, I can do a make/install sequence, but those resulting error messages usually point to matters beyond my understanding such as GTK+ levels, " missing [.so] files", etc. Those usually stop me in my tracks, and then things don't go any farther. Ideas, anyone? Brian _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user