12 May
2017
12 May
'17
6:16 p.m.
On May 12, 2017 18:09, "Bearcat Şándor" <bearcatsandor(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:06 AM Moshe Werner <moshwe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On May 12, 2017 12:17, "Bearcat Şándor" <bearcatsandor(a)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
But there is no class compliant audio driver for TB.
The interface works with USB because you don't have to install a driver,
it's class compliant.
For TB audio to work you do need a proprietary driver, which, to my best
understanding, there is none for Linux.
I would love to be proven wrong.