Greetings from the UK

[Flymo]

Hello folks, glad to be here!

I'm having another go at getting myself organised with Linux for Music. At the moment I have a fair stack of MIDI guitar hardware and MIDI expanders, a Roland GR300, a Yamaha QY300, assorted guitars, two USB-MIDI interfaces and a track record of always having to do something more urgent whenever I tried to get things married up and working well with Linux.

I've been running Linux for 6 years now. Previous experience includes CP/M, BSD4.x and a fair bit of coding in Assembler for Z80, COP400, NS32xxx and early ARM hardware.

Now happily using Bodhi Linux after some years of mostly 'buntu/Mint LTS releases and a serious distro-tasting habit in the background.

I'd really like to get a wind controller going - and funds are not as plentiful now that I'm retired. The AKAI EWI USB looks almost affordable, but still a lot of money in the UK. And their software is not exactly Linux ready.

Suggestions and sage advice are welcome!

[canhoto]

I see you had no answer. I'm willing to buy a wind controller, either a more expensive one (like the Yamaha WX5) or an Akai EWI-USB. It seems that this one works well under Linux, from what I read after googling.

Since your post, have you had any success with wind controllers?

Anyway, I think I will psot a new thread about this.