MIDI Control Center in Linux not detecting KB

Utilities MIDI Control Center
#1

My Keylab61 Essential KB works great in Linux ( Arch if it matters ) when using Analog Lab 4/V ( via WINE ), but MIDI Control Center cannot detect it, which means I can’t make adjustments so that I can use it in Reaper ( so I can record it as is w/ the Analog Lab V patch I like ).

I understand to use it in Reaper the way I want, I have to use the MIDI Control Center to adjust a few parameters, but, I can’t do that unless the KB is detected, which it isn’t.

I’ve verified through ALSA/command line that the KB is correctly identified and using other MIDI monitoring software confirm not only is it identified properly but it’s also sending all the correct commands. I’ve also tried various versions of WINE and various versions of Windows within winetricks compatibility, and nothing works.

I don’t think the problem is WINE itself not passing MIDI commands because otherwise Analog Lab ( and my ALSA testing ) would have failed.

It’s specifically WINE + MIDI control Center.

I found a YouTube that suggested that with MIDI CC, Arturia uses some sort of custom drivers that are not used with the built-in Linux distribution USBMIDI , and suggested using “SYSEX Controls” but I can’t really find a package that seems relevant, even on GitHub.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Do I have any options other than having to run a Windws VM?

#2

Hello.

That’s probably because the MCC except some specific MIDI ports name.
A lot of informations have been given here to make it works on Linux.

The thread is about AnalogLab but it is probbaly the same problem in the MCC.

Hopefully this will help you.

Cheers !

#3

That is correct, MCC cannot work with WINE because Arturia uses their own USB driver in Windows, which can’t be used in Wine (note that with MacOS, there is no need of such a special USB driver with MCC because of the USB class compliance but since Arturia is not supporting linux, that’s where we are today, with this quite unnecessary pain - there are many discussion threads about it).

In any case, you may have some success with this: Attempting Arturia Software install in Linux using sysex-control

I have not tried it myself since I have both linux and Windows laptops.