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Author Topic: Firmware upgrade DrumBrute using Linux + VirtualBox and Windows 10 Enterprise  (Read 2656 times)

aio

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Hi guys,

Just wanted to share my experiment on upgrading my Arturia DrumBrute using MIDI Control Center if you are like me and avoid Windows no matter the cost.

1. Install VirtualBox on your Linux machine (On Ubuntu $ apt-get install virtualbox)
2. Install the extension pack  (On Ubuntu $ apt-get install virtualbox-ext-pack)
3. Grab a free trial copy of Windows 10 Enterprise from Microsoft (You will need a Microsoft/Live/Skype account https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO)
4. Make sure that the user that will run VirtualBox is part of the user-group vbxusers (On Ubuntu $ adduser $USER vbxusers)
5. Stop your Linux machine from grabbing USB-sound-devices when plugged in (They need to be grabbed by VirtualBox directly) by adding the modules snd-usbmidi-lib, snd-usb-audio, maybe more to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
6. Restart the Linux machine and start up VirtualBox, enbable USB 2.0 devices, add the Windows10 ISO-image and install it into a new virtual machine
7. In the virtual Windows installation install MIDI Control Center.
8. Plug the device into the USB port. Go in to the VirtualBox USB-settings and add it permantly to the USB-devices to be let through to the virtual machine.
9. Start a firmware upgrade in MIDI Control Center
10. When the upgrade process starts, you will (at least when upgrading DrumBrute) asked to turn on/off the machine and the display of the machine says ("UPD"). This is where things start to be weird. The USB device changes name from "Arutira DrumBrute" to "Arturia Upgrade" (or something similar), hence you need to add this USB device to the VirtualBox USB-devices as well.
11. Once both the USB-device names are allowed directly in to the virtual machine firmware upgrades are going smooth :)
12. Don't forget to remove the blacklisted Linux modules in your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file again when you feel just about done.

Enjoy an up-to-date Arturia machine without spending a dime.

BigB

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Thanks fro the recipe, but honestly : could you arturia guys respect your customers and issue a linux version of your software ? We Linux users paid the same price as anyone for your products and can't access half of it's feature without going through all sorts of hoops and hassles. Either this or build your hardware so it doesn't depend on any external software for such an essential feature as midi configuration.

 

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