creative prodikeys dm driver windows 7 64 bit

(Why the hell did I sell my UMR2 last year?) However, that would lose the functionality of the pitch bend wheel & fast octave shift keys, and the ability to plug this into the PS/2 port of anything regardless of whether it even had a MIDI interface. It would be virtually trivial to bodge an external DIN5 MIDI port onto this using a Highly Liquid UMR2 or even an Arduino. The piano keybed is a DEAD SIMPLE diode matrix type with a rubber membrane. ^^ Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to disconnect these ribbon cables without damaging them. The loose soldered wires (CON1) are the PS/2 plug and the big fat ribbon on the bottom is for the piano keys. On the right, the white connector (CON2) goes to a simple board that holds the pitch bend & volume wheel. The two ribbon cables are for the QWERTY keybed and 'special' keys (start/stop/play, sustain, octave shift, programmable keys, etc.) topside. Lots of dodgy Chinese sellers claim to have the Creative CA0300-DAD chip 'in stock' but none of them want to cough up the datasheet. ^^ Not much to the top side of the control circuit board. There are apparently NO photos of the inside of one of these on the web. You don't even need to dig under the label. Just remove the 12(!) screws around the outside and pop the cover off. I thought of installing the official Windows drivers on a Win95 laptop I have and trying to run a port logger, but haven't tried yet. unfortunately, I have no idea *what* to write. If anyone can offer me pointers on how to read what the MIDI keys or extra buttons are sending, so I can see what kind of messages it's delivering to the system, that would be a good place to start.Īny help with this project is appreciated!Īciez wrote:Maybe something has to be written to the PS/2 port so the MIDI keys activate I'm hoping to find some expert help on reverse engineering it, maybe using the USB driver as reference, and cobbling something together that makes it show up as a MIDI input device to the system. There don't seem to be any published specifications on how this thing works. pitch bend / sustain / octave shift buttons next/previous track, play/pause & stop buttonsĪll of those functions show up as events when I cat /dev/input/event2 as well. What works on a standard Linux machine with no additional modules loaded: There is a module HID-Prodikeys but it's old (not really updated since the 2.6 kernel era) only supports the later USB version of this keyboard. I'm looking to figure out how this hybrid MIDI/QWERTY keyboard works and maybe see about bodging together a MIDI driver for it. I love the form factor and the idea behind it, unfortunately there is no Linux support.

It plugs into the PS/2 port (only!) and uses a driver to translate its PS/2 inputs to MIDI messages. I have a Creative Prodikeys DM on my machine.

Creative prodikeys dm driver windows 7 64 bit