A while back a got a Behringer Xtouch. I hooked it up using the USB port, and it didn't work with Saw. I heard that the compatibility problem between the Xtouch and Ryzen processors (what my studio machine has) might be attributable to the way the motherboard chipset implements USB. I was advised to get a port card to bypass that problem, and I did so. No joy. I ended up using midi to connect the Xtouch, which worked fine.
Still, I didn't like giving up midi ports that way. Yesterday I came across another possible fix, which was to update the firmware in the Xtouch. This required using a computer with an Intel processor, but my laptop has that, so I did the update. Before and after the update, the USB connection of Xtouch worked just fine with my laptop. No joy with my main studio machine.
It may never be possible to use the USB connection on Xtouch with AMD processors, but I found another workaround: the Ethernet connection on Xtouch, working through a protocol called RTP midi. Doing this with a PC requires installing an RTP driver, which was developed by Tobias Erichsen.
It can be found at https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html
You have to jump through a few hoops to set this up, but it works. I can now use my Xtouch with SawStudio without having to give up midi ports. So far I am very pleased with the results.
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