[ardour-users] Control surfaces

[Joe Cooper]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Them hat gesagt: // Them wrote:
> 
> 
>>They do, under the Evolution brand-name:
>>
>>http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=evolutioncontrollers
> 
> 
> M-Audio simply bought this company. Lets hope they incorporate
> Evolution's knowledge as well, because Evolution makes really great
> controllers and they understand the USB spec, whereas the M-Audio
> developers have had serious problems with that in the past.
> 
> I own the Evol. UC-33, it works plug-and-play using USB on Linux,
> ALSA. No firmware hassles, all fine. You can see me working on it
> under Linux here: http://tinyurl.com/29a5h

For what it's worth, I have an Evolution USB/MIDI keyboard controller 
with a bunch of knobs (8 of them, I think) and a couple of sliders, and 
it works extremely well.  It was detected and worked from the moment I 
plugged it in.  All of the bits just seem to come together, and all of 
my Linux MIDI apps know what to do with it (i.e. soft synths respect 
pan, volume, expression, effects knobs, etc.).  Very cool.

Just a "me too" on the "Evolution makes good USB/MIDI gear" bandwagon.