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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:27:35PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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> Hallo,

> Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote:

> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:22:16PM +0100, Jos? Pedro Ferreira wrote:

> > > Hello.

> > > I'm thinking about buying a 25 key keyboard to do some composition under

> > > linux. Is there any list of recommended devices, known to work OK? I've

> > > thought about the M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 or the M-Audio Axiom 25. Anyone

> > > uses them? Any other good suggestions?

> > I had an Oxygen 8 (v1).  It worked fine, but two octaves gets

> > frustrating very quickly, and the keys felt kind of flimsy.  A HOWTO

> > for use with Alsa is here:

> > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/USBMidiDevices

> I would recommend against the old Oxygen because of the hassles you

> get with having to install special firmware on every machine you want

> to use it. I don't know, if the v2 version still needs this, but for

> the old one it's an unnecessary pain. Thankfully M-Audio's newer

> USB-midi devices don't do this silly stuff anymore.

If you are after something small, light and easily portable, the m-audio

O2 is all of those. I brought it along with my notebook in a backpack

to LAC07. Didn't get a chance to use it there, but that's a different

story...
-Eric Rz.

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