MOTU Midi Interface assistance needed

[Phitar]

I’m new to Linux and trying to get my midi interfaces to work. I found vampirefrog’s drivers on GitHub but not sure how to get them installed on my pc. I have the MOTU Express 128 and the micro express. Running latest version of Ubuntu Studio LTS. Any help appreciated.

[Impostor]

Make a dedicated dir in your homedir for building stuff. Open that dir in terminal.
Install git:

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sudo apt install git

Run to copy the github stuff to your machine:

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git clone https://github.com/vampirefrog/motu.git

Enter dir:

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cd motu

And follow further instructions from the github page. You probably need to install all kinds of dependencies before you can successfully build it.

[grawlinson]

I’ve got a package for this on the AUR.

Keep in mind that there are two variants (motu & motu-dkms); the motu package needs to be recompiled against new kernel versions, whereas the DKMS package will automatically rebuild itself when a new kernel is installed.

If you’re not using Arch Linux, then the package itself can give you a good idea of how to install for other distributions.