Arturia MicroFreak - Midi Control Center problems

[autostatic]

I don't know what that HID stuff means though.

Human Interface Device, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human ... vice_class
But the Arturia devices are not HID devices, they're audio devices.

[sysrqer]

I wasn't able to get it installed, I can get the software centre working but installation of the Midi Control Center fails because it can't find the OS or something.

If you skip installing the MIDI driver it will install.

Ah yeah you're right, I can get it to install but it's the driver that fails. I don't see an option to skip it although the installation does continue. But surely it can't work without the driver?

[sysrqer]

I just compiled the git package and it picked up that I have libusb installed:

checking for libusb.h... yes
checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... yes

However, nothing changed. Not sure what else to try

[krussedull]

Human Interface Device, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human ... vice_class
But the Arturia devices are not HID devices, they're audio devices.

No, they make midi devices and also their audio devices talk midi.

I just compiled the git package and it picked up that I have libusb installed:

checking for libusb.h... yes
checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... yes

However, nothing changed. Not sure what else to try

Can you share please what exacly you did? I would also very much like to try it out

[sysrqer]

Can you share please what exacly you did? I would also very much like to try it out

I just installed the git version of Staging with paru and it picked up that I have libusb installed automatically.

[bluebell]

Generally I noticed that Linux sometimes "gets in the way" by starting stuff for plugged-in USB devices that's not needed when we have to run Windows software.

The librarian for Korg opsix only works when I disable USB networking in a file in /etc/modprobe.d:

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blacklist rndis_wlan
blacklist rndis_host
blacklist usbnet

[krussedull]

The librarian for Korg opsix only works when I disable USB networking in a file in /etc/modprobe.d:

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blacklist rndis_wlan
blacklist rndis_host
blacklist usbnet

Thank you very much for the suggestion!
..unfortunately it didn't help much here.
..if I did it correctly

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$ sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/usb-test.conf 
blacklist rndis_wlan
blacklist rndis_host
blacklist usbnet
$ systemctl reboot

..same problem, just hangs when connecting

[sysrqer]

Anyone tried it in a VM with mint (if mint does actually work)?

[krussedull]

I just compiled the git package and it picked up that I have libusb installed:

checking for libusb.h... yes
checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... yes

However, nothing changed. Not sure what else to try

Okeeeey, after compiling wine for about 2-3 weeks (gawd it took some time) I searched the terminal log

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...
checking for libusb.h... yes
checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... yes
...
checking for libusb.h... yes
checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... no
...
configure: libusb-1.0 32-bit development files not found (or too old), USB devices won't be supported.
...

There were also a good bunch of these (that also contain "libusb")

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gcc -m64 -c -o dlls/wineusb.sys/unixlib.o ../wine/dlls/wineusb.sys/unixlib.c -Idlls/wineusb.sys -I../wine/dlls/wineusb.sys \
  -Iinclude -I../wine/include -D__WINESRC__ -DWINE_UNIX_LIB -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0
...
/home/alf/.cache/yay/wine-git/src/build-64/tools/winebuild/winebuild -w --implib -o dlls/usbd.sys/libusbd.a -m32 \
  --export ../wine/dlls/usbd.sys/usbd.sys.spec
/home/alf/.cache/yay/wine-git/src/build-64/tools/winebuild/winebuild -w --implib -o dlls/usbd.sys/i386-windows/libusbd.a \
  --without-dlltool -b i686-w64-mingw32 --export ../wine/dlls/usbd.sys/usbd.sys.spec
...
tools/winebuild/winebuild -w --implib -o dlls/usbd.sys/libusbd.a -m64 --export ../wine/dlls/usbd.sys/usbd.sys.spec

...not really sure what's really going on here or if this trail lost its heat or not

[krussedull]

Anyone tried it in a VM with mint (if mint does actually work)?

I tried with a live-boot ISO from linux mint, and it did connect to my MicroFreak.
Try yourselv, just download the iso, put it on a stick, boot up mint, apt update and apt install wine and voila

[sysrqer]

Okeeeey, after compiling wine for about 2-3 weeks (gawd it took some time) I searched the terminal log

...not really sure what's really going on here or if this trail lost its heat or not

Yeah it's a big one. That's really interesting, I didn't spot that when I tried it. Do you have lib32-libusb installed? I don't so I'm sure the log probably said the same thing for me.

[krussedull]

Yeah it's a big one. That's really interesting, I didn't spot that when I tried it. Do you have lib32-libusb installed? I don't so I'm sure the log probably said the same thing for me.

I just had to try it right away, but unfortunately it didn't change much.

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checking for libusb_interrupt_event_handler in -lusb-1.0... no

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configure: libusb-1.0 32-bit development files not found (or too old), USB devices won't be supported.

After installing lib32-libusb the first one here turned to "yes" and the second one dissapaired.
..but that's pretty much it.

This rabbit hole goes deeper...

[sysrqer]

That's a shame, I thought that might have been the solution. I just tried Mint on a usb stick and it doesn't work for me there with my keystep. I may have to give up at this point, not sure what else we can try and I'm not convinced it will work on any setup now.

[krussedull]

Yea unfortunately it seems like we are at a deadend. At least for now.
Twas a good jam!

[noreabu]

Someone over there got something working so i gave it a try: viewtopic.php?t=24555&start=45

TL:DR; Samples still do not work!! (but i see my presets...)

use fresh wineprefix (e.g. export WINEPREFIX=~/apps/arturia-mcc)
with winecfg:

• set libraries override for midimap to use native
• in Staging: disable CSMT and Hide wine version
• set version to Win10 (they say Win7, but then MIDI Driver install failed for me)
• install with wine (at this point in time MIDI_Control_Center__1_17_0_174)
• set version to Win7
• start
• select device directly in dropdown (top left, the menu in the top bar did not show anything useful)
• wait... while MIDI Control Center is initializing (about two minutes for me)
• tadaa

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ps: i took the screenshot after i flashed the presets from the new firmware version on it