On Thursday 05 Aug 2004 11:24, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> The Midisport interfaces are a bit cheaper, and also a bit more complex.
> Some of them require a firmware program to be loaded into the device's RAM
> before you can use it.

I have a Midisport 2x2 and the ALSA support for it is an impressive piece of 
work, but it's still a real pain.

btw, I seem to remember reading that some of the M-Audio USB devices can't be 
used at all with Linux 2.6 kernels, because they aren't strictly compliant 
USB devices at all (never mind standard USB audio ones) so the kernel rejects 
them before ALSA even gets involved.

> I didn't test it by myself, but Evolution (http://www.evolution.co.uk/) now
> owned by M-Audio, had several models conforming the standard USB MIDI
> specification

I didn't know they were owned by M-Audio.  I have an Evolution 2-octave USB 
MIDI keyboard and as you say, it works with the snd-usb-audio module with no 
fuss at all.  Plasticky keyboard but it works well.  I imagine other 
manufacturers' wares are probably very similar.

I have two other MIDI interfaces: an Audiophile 2496, which has a standard 
pair of MIDI plugs on a breakout cable, and which work fine using the same 
ice1712 modules as the audio on the card; and a gameport built in to a 
motherboard using what I think is an AMD compatible version (AMD768?) of the 
Intel 8x0 chipset, driven with the same intel8x0 ALSA driver.  Again that 
works fine with the same drivers as the audio.


Chris


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