Midi Keyboard (non-usb) question

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Greetings all.

I am trying to hook up an old Yamaha keyboard (non-usb) which has midi-in and midi-out ports, to my computer. I have an old "Cakewalk Music Connector 1" adapter, which has a usb connection on the other end and is designed to connect non-usb keyboards to a computer's usb port(hence the "adapter" name). This works under Vista (I booted Vista only to see if I could get it to work). It does not work under Fedora 11 Linux, which is what I run almost all the time. This is a very old adapter, and perhaps there is a more modern approach?

In trolling around the web, I have found references to the Edirol UM-1G (now rebranded as the Cakewalk UM-1G) which seems to be a more recent solution (and perhaps more standards-compliant as well). My question, I guess, is whether anyone has used this adapter? Or, really, if you've found any solution which will allow Linux to recognize an old non-usb midi keyboard.

Thanks in advance,
Tom
 
any midi to usb adapter will work fine. Find one that is class compliant and it should work with the generic linux driver
 
Altitude909,

Thanks for the reply.

You wrote that "any midi to usb adaptor will work fine", but my existing "Cakewalk Music Connector 1" is a midi to usb adaptor, and it doesn't work. So I'm wondering why? Perhaps it's not "class compliant"? I know it is an older device, so maybe that's it.
 
if it need a driver under windows than chances are that it is not class compliant
 
OK, great. Now I understand.

Thanks very much for your help with this. I really appreciate it.

--Tom
 
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