Comment 28 for bug 1020338

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RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan) wrote :

Re-posting what I wrote on the forums:

Hi Donny,

That means that somebody needs to develop a MIDI driver for the reloop on Linux before Mixxx can use it. This typically involves reverse engineering the USB implementation to figure out how the device sends MIDI data over USB and then writing a Linux USB driver (or alternatively a user-space driver with libusb) that would present the device as a MIDI device.

It's totally possible but nobody on the Mixxx team has this device to build the support for it. Mixxx is created by volunteers so in a sense there is no time or money for developers to work on this :). If you find someone who has the device and is good at writing Linux drivers then that might be a good person to convince to work on it :). Not having the device makes it very very difficult to do this work.