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<font size="+1">Is using a MIDI keyboard with Linux a world of pain,
or am I doing something wrong?<br>
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About the best I can do right now to get any sound from my Akai
LPK25 (= cheapo USB midi keyboard) is:<br>
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1) Start qjackctl<br>
2) Open the Connections tab<br>
3) Drag the LPK25 output over the Timidity++ input<br>
4) Proceed to get a single generic piano sound via the keyboard in
an approximation of realtime.<br>
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Anything more adventurous fails to work.<br>
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It can't be a processing power issue. Is it just that no-one on
Linux does music?<br>
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cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
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