On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Iain Mott <mott@reverberant.com> wrote:
> Or the PreSonus AudioBox1818VSL which has 8 balanced outs as well as ADAT i/o and uses USB 2.0. Something like this would be very flexible. Would I be likely to run into problems on Linux with this?

A quick dig around shows it should work OOTB:
https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=7543
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/hw/presonus_audiobox_1818vsl
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/hardware_support#presonus_-_1818vsl_usb2

Note it might not like USB3:
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7543&start=30

And some latency statistics that Robin x42 has kindly published about VSL:
http://robin.linuxaudio.org/tmp/vsl1818latency.png

HTH, -Harry

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