I use a USB keyboard at the moment, it's an M-Audio Keystation and works natively on Linux. I use 64 Studio as my favourite music distro but new ones are coming out all the time. I used to use the joystick port adapters in the old days and I would think they should still be supported in the kernel still. The Creative cards used to work that way and I'm pretty sure all Soundblaster or Audigy cards would be fully supported. I'm not 100% sure though might be worth double checking the hardware you want to use online.<br>
<br>Not sure if that's any help but hopefully so<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Richard Smedley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smedley358@btinternet.com">smedley358@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:05 +0000, Dan Lynch wrote:<br>
> I use a DAW most of the time these days, I only used the<br>
> Atari at school when I had the chance. I then moved onto<br>
> Cubase when I was older and could afford a PC. As a MIDI<br>
> sequencer yeah the Atari is great, simple and still<br>
> powerful enough, I know people who still use them. These<br>
> days I'm doing a lot of digital audio work with big wave<br>
> files and so on. I used to use a separate tape recorder<br>
> in the studio as a lot of people did and sync to the midi<br>
> sequencer with a SMPTE timecode track. These days it's in<br>
> one PC tower. As long as you get the end result sounding<br>
> right it doesn't matter what you use :)<br>
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</div>I only make acoustic music nowadays, but 19 years ago<br>
I remember spending a couple of days in a MIDI studio,<br>
set up above the Midland Bank at the bottom of Hardman St.<br>
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Funny thing is, after all our effort, we produced a<br>
load of drivel that sounded like a New Age record.<br>
A good example of being steered by the "instrument"<br>
away from our normal sound :-/<br>
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Now, I'm about to set up a MIDI keyboard and PC<br>
for the kids' homework. Does anybody still use<br>
MIDI with joystick ports on sound cards, or am I<br>
going to find only USB MIDI works well with modern<br>
distros?<br>
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- Richard<br>
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