[lug] MIDI Keyboard for Linux

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:46:21 -0700
Lee Woodworth wrote:

> I assume you know the
> range of the music you will be working with and can transpose to make a
> 2 octave range work.
> 
> Jack definitely complicates things. I just spent 30 minutes configuring
> gstreamer to use jack and then configuring jack's patch bay so firefox
> audio would route to audacity. So I wouldn't change an existing setup
> to use jack unless really needed.

I'm about at this level:
https://youtu.be/GcsFcQJeycM?t=28s

I know what transposition is, key signature, order of sharps and flats,
"Every girl bites dead fish", etc. I even used to be able to sight-read
both clefs. But I'm not a keyboard player. This is for playing around.

Kind of leaning towards an Akai - gets good reviews. I'll look around on
Craigslist a bit too.