Midisport/MidiMan/M-Audio Radium USB midi keyboard setup

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Jon posted Oct 1 '16, 21:43:

Hey,

Has anyone got samplerbox working with one of these old midi keyboards? I have one and its a few years old. I think it was made before midi over usb and class-compliant drivers were a thing, so I have read you have to load firmware to the device before it will talk midi over USB.

I found this site with the firmware and managed after a bit of tweaking of the configure script to get the midisport-firmware to install but it doesn't work for me. It looks like the usb side of things has moved on since the drivers were made.

http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/

Anyway, if anyone has one of these older midi keyboards and has it working with samplerbox, I would love to hear how you managed to do it.

Thanks,

R

roderickm posted Mar 12 '17, 21:30:

apt-get install midisport-firmware

...should do the trick. You'll need a network connection first, but that should install the package that contains the USB MIDI firmware you need. Worked on my old Midiman Radium 61 (pre M-Audio brand name).

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