Nick Dowell wrote:
  Hi,
 I noticed there has been some discussion as to whether novation usb
 midi and/or audio products will work with linux:
 
http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2003-August/
 005765.html
 I can tell you that the audio side of all out usb products are usb
 class compliant, so they should work with the usb audio class drivers.
 If they don't, please let me know.
 The MIDI communication is not class compliant. It is a very simple
 protocol though, and should be easy to implement. If anyone wants
 information to write one we'd be more than happy to give it.
 Thanks.
 Nick Dowell
 Software Team Leader
 Focusrite Audio Engineering / Novation DMS 
That was probably me. I bought a Remote 25 around that time. I'm only
using the midi interface. But, I am very interested in being able to use
it via USB. It would be great to be able to get firmware updates and to
save templates to my PC.
-Eric Rz.