Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Michael Hawkins wrote:

> Well, what I found in my testing was that the interface works perfectly 
> with LINUX but fails miserably with Windows XP which would seem to 
> suggest that the problem is with the windows driver and not the actual 
> hardware itself.
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anything "class compliant" should "just work" with linux. i'm using a 
tapco "link.midi" without any problems (for what it is, it's reasonably 
cheap). i've also got an "el cheapo" midi cable that partially works with 
linux, but doesn't handle sysex. so if someone is looking for a bare-bones 
cheap option and you found one that works, i'd suggest they go with that.

for anyone using a command line on linux, i would suggest using "amidi" to 
dump the sysex files. it's part of the "alsa-utils" package.

first, find what interfaces are available:
 	amidi -l

then, something like this will dump the file to the interface:
 	amidi -p hw:1,0,0 -s file.syx

if you buy a link.midi and it's needs an OS update, the same process can 
be used to upgrade the OS from linux. just download the latest update from 
tapco's web site and adapt the windows/midi-ox instructions... it works 
fine with amidi.


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