midi on ubuntu?

[Matt Price]

Hi folks,

My daughter has borrowed a midi keyboard -- the m-audio oxygen-8, which has
a usb out.  She wants to use it to do some basic composition.  I myself know
very little about music and less about MIDI, but would like to help her
connect to the family ubuntu box.  That box runs ubuntu 10.10, and so uses
pulseaudio for things like watching tv.  I'd rather not screw that up by
trying to install jack and all that but I'll do so in a clean profile if I
must.  Anyone out there have experience with MIDI, especially under a recent
ubuntu?  All I really need is for the keyboard to work as a kind of
mini-piano.

Thanks as always, folks.  best,
Matt
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