Linux + MIDI

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

On September 24, 2014 10:11:41 AM EDT, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>> I don't know if this is useful, but I have an old SoundBlaster Extigy
>> that I'd be happy to donate. It has MIDI, as well as all sorts of
>> other hookups, though I never used them.
>
>I was going to turn this down, thinking it was a sound card (he's
>probably migrating to a laptop soon). Turns out it's not a sound card
>and I don't know what to do because I can't tell what it *is*.

Fancy high-end USB 1.1 external sound card for laptops, from 2002. With lots of different I/Os, including MIDI. First-generation USB audio device, AFAIK; and, if I remember correctly, it's from around the time when Creative decided that they were going to cooperate with open source developers.

Optimistically: it's exactly what you're asking for. ☺

Though, like I said, I never got into MIDI devices and so never used that functionality. It may Just Work and give Evan the keyboard<->computer interface he wants, or not.

On the up side, my asking price is zero thalers + you stop by my house to pick it up. 😉


Relevant things I see on the web:

        * http://alsa.opensrc.org/USBMidiDevices
        * http://www.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/?id=10865
        * http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/extigy/
        * http://www.extremetech.com/computing/73098-creative-sound-blaster-extigy
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