A little disappointed with USB-MIDI

[chrisk]

@chrisk

Sometimes USB-MIDI controllers are said to not require a driver (aka ‘class-compliant’) but the manufacturer really means that the controller has only been designed/tested to work via USB with Windows, Mac, and/or iOS. This means that a controller may or may not work with a Linux OS like the one that runs on the Organelle. This is frustrating for everyone.

Not sure which USB-MIDI keyboards you tried but maybe this post about a M-Audio controller will shed some light on the issue:

@chrisk

Looking at the Minimum System Requirements (under ‘Specs’) on this M-Audio page, it only lists the following operating systems:

• Windows 7
• macOS 10.11

…so it doesn’t look like your MIDI controller supports USB-MIDI with Linux OSes. It might be worth reaching out to M-Audio about this to confirm.