On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:06 AM Moshe Werner <moshwe@gmail.com> wrote:

On May 12, 2017 12:17, "Bearcat Şándor" <bearcatsandor@gmail.com> wrote:
This is awesome news. I've been interested in MOTU interfaces for a long time, but avoided them given their lack of cooperation with the Linux community.

Which interface did you use? Does it work with thunderbolt, USB or both? If you've tried both did you notice any differences in performance between the two?

Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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Actually Motu are not cooperating so much with Linux, it's more that we profit from IOs users wanting to use audio interfaces...

I'm using the 1248, and as I said the m8 and A16 should work too because it's basically the same interface with a different analogue front end.

I did not try thunderbolt, this requires drivers and they are not available for Linux.
Class compliant USB works out of the box.
The control over the software is done via Ethernet.

Cheers

Unless i'm missing something, Thunderbolt (which is version 3) is available under "Device Drivers" in my kernel version 4.10.13. I'm not sure at what kernel version it became available, but it looks like it was put in sometime last year.