Thanks, Clemens.  That link was spot-on.  Unfortunately, as you say,
it's not really all there, yet.  Things look promising for the future,
though.
By the way, there is no DM-300.  They were interested in the DM-3200.  Sorry.
On 9/28/05, Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
  Jason Bechtel wrote:
  asking whether they can use one of the following
two devices with
 Linux:
 Tascam DM-300 (FireWire; new model) 
 See 
http://freebob.sf.net/, but this is currently more "no" than
 "yes".
  Yamaha 01V96 
 ALSA supports MIDI-over-USB with this device.
 If there is some utility that controls this device over MIDI, it
 probably won't run under Linux, so you'd have to send SysEx's
 manually.