Logilink USB MIDI Cable and Puppy

[paulski]

I just bought this neat and reasonably priced little USB -Midi In/out unit and got it up and running really fast.

First a few details, just in case you are looking to get one of the similar devices running from the same factory, but sold under another name. Using a device scan utility like PupScan interface information.
The device is:

Vendor ID: 15ca, Product ID 0101

To see what it looks like the manufactuer's website is:
http://www.logilink.eu/showproduct/UA0037.htm

Okay time to get this thing running.
The modules (drivers) are already there in ALSA.
In a console/terminal type:

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modprobe snd-usb-audio

Then plug the device in

ALSA should then create a duplex midi port at 20:0
test it with alsa midi player:

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aplaymidi -p20:0 midifilename.mid

If it plays your midi file you are in business

I have so far sucessfully used it with Rosegarden 4-1.0 sequencer and an Eeepc 701 in pupeeeb4 (puppy 3.01 based), but it should work on all Puppies since 2.0 and probably 1 series puppies as the ALSA snd-usb-audio module is there.