LinuxMusicians

Yes, that's a refreshing change from the usual corporate-speak. If it works, great.

On the subject of specs ... The specs I found for the Minifuse were in the manual. Dynamic range 110dB (typical). The 'typical' means there is some variation between units. It's good, but it's the same as a Behringer 202. I'm not suggesting you get a Behringer, but how did you decide the specs are much better than the alternatives?

DjPJ wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:35 pm [...]
Contrary to FOCUSRITE that sends a copy/paste "official corporate denial" of any form of LINUX support, ARTURIA answered, in depth.
This for me is the mark of a great company, one that I want to buy from.

(Note: I read that FOCUSRITE programmers helped with the development of Linux drivers by the community).
FOCUSRITE is a great product, it's great popularity attesting to that. I am just an unlucky scalded cat
[...]

Hi @DjPJ,

FYI, there was a Focusrite developer who assisted with the Scarlett Gen 1 Linux driver, but I wrote the Gen 2/Gen 3 driver and Focusrite definitely didn't help me (I did ask, but the answer was no).

Regards,
Geoffrey.

Hi, just finished my degree in sound design. did all my assessments with my linux laptop and the iRig Pro I/O. No issues here. I don't get super low buffers like 64 samples to run, but other than that: it's fine. (this is with debian bookworm, liquorix kernel, plain ALSA for audio-work in Bitwig)

My Steinberg UR22 Mk2 on the other hand has some problems, as you may have read. Didn't have the time yet to investigate it with another distro/file a bug report.

EDIT: typos

Cool! Thanks for the feedback. I actually ended up ordering a TC Helicon Go Solo (similar to the iRig, but explicitly claims USB 1.0 class compliancy) ... I will try it out on my Kubuntu 20.04 LTS setup and report back

Heya, just to report back with my experiences using the TC Helicon GO SOLO interface, plugged into a Razer Blade 15 running Kubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Everything works out-of-the-box, seems to be USB 1.0 compliant like TC Helicon claims. I was able to get 44100 and 48000 operation going in jack without fuss, down to a block size of around 128 (with a few xruns, but still useable). Unfortunately the GO SOLO does not have real-time monitoring of the mic input, and even a block size of 128 still gives a percievable monitoring delay.

The lack of 0-latency monitoring probably keeps this interface from being something you would use for any serious studio work... but that being said, the mic pre and audio quality boost is a nice step up from a USB compliant dongle interface. I guess the compatibility with Android/iOS phones is also a plus? Though for slightly less money you could get a Behringer U-PHORIA UM2 which is better built and has more features like direct monitoring.. though is a bit bigger/blocky