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I have a Yamaha keyboard (a PSR-3000, to be exact), which I would like to connect as a MIDI device to a Linux computer (a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian). It shows up in lsusb as:

Bus 001 Device 068: ID 0499:102b Yamaha Corp. PSR-3000

Therefore, what I do need is a MIDI/USB driver such as one on the official Yamaha website. Does anybody know if such a driver exists for Linux, and if so, where I can find it?

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For this to work a reboot is required; then a special device /dev/midi1 will appear.

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  • Doesn't loading the snd-usb-audio module work?
    – CL.
    Dec 19, 2015 at 18:41
  • @CL. Maybe, but I didn't have to try.
    – Danya02
    Dec 19, 2015 at 18:50
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I have two Yamaha keyboards connected to a Raspberry Pi zero 2W, one keyboard through an UNO USB Midi interface and one through Yamaha's UX16 interface. Just plug the synthesizer in through whatever USB-Midi interface you have and use aplaymidi -l to list the recognized Midi devices. It should list your device with a "Port" number on the left, which will be something like 20:0. You don't need the :0 but you can use the port number (20 in this example) in a command to play a Midi file. If you have a file named "song.mid" in your main directory, using this example, enter:

aplaymidi -p 10 /home/pi/song.mid

I don't see any reason to reboot to get this. Also, neither the Uno nor the Ux16 needed a driver downloaded. They worked as soon as I plugged them in.

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