I once got a Roland UM-1 from a computer shop in Sydney somewhere, and I have one from Jaycar that works too. It looks a bit differenct to the one they have now, but it says "no drivers" so should be fine.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=XC4934 -- Felix On 09/02/13 15:29, Ben Donohue wrote: > Thanks Rachel, and all for your help. > > I'm looking to get something from an overseas website as I went to > various electronics places today and no one had anything or not in stock. > > Now I know what to look for. I think I'll try for a four way as I > suppose these things tend to grow once you start to play with them. > > Pity midi keyboards don't just have a USB port at the back and do away > with the round midi plug. That would be so much easier! > > Ben > > > On 09/02/13 14:15, Rachel Polanskis wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> this list here describes a good selection of quality interfaces that >> work with Linux >> >> http://alsa.opensrc.org/USBMidiDevices >> >> The question is, how intensive are your requirements? Do you need >> mulitport MIDI >> control, filtering >> or MIDI beat clock for example? If you do, you may need a specific >> driver >> >> and MIDI hardware interface >> combination, that is supported on your flavour of Linux. You may only >> >> require simple 2 way 16 channel >> MIDI, which would be supported by most driver/hardware configurations. >> >> It may be wiser to purchase >> a more advanced interface that has the smarts to do routing and >> filtering and >> receive and transmit MIDI >> clock. Otherwise, you will end up progressing so far only to find you >> can't sync >> your sampler to your sequencer, >> for example. >> >> >> >> rachel >> >> >> -- >> rachel polanskis >> <r.polans...@uws.edu.au <mailto:r.polans...@uws.edu.au>> >> <gr...@zeta.org.au <mailto:gr...@zeta.org.au>> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
