Report on Sub Phatty Linux support

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Just got my Sub Phatty and am loving it. I wasn’t able to find any reports online of how well it interoperates with Linux PCs, so i thought I’d give my results here:

  1. Midi works fine out of the box (thru Jack…didn’t try anything else)
  2. Had hoped to find firmware version reported via ‘lsusb’ but didn’t see it there. Luckily I found info online the serial no. at which the factory moved to v2)
  3. Patch editor runs under wine, but does not connect to device. I believe this is because Wine does not yet support USB. ( More details here: http://wiki.winehq.org/USB )
  4. Because my firmware was already at v2, I didn’t try sending the sysex data from Linux directly.
  5. Tried running the patch editor in a Vbox Windows session. Required me to set up the USB passthrough for the SP in VM configuration. After doing that and restarting the patch editor everything worked as expected and I was able to load/store patches to the SP!

If I get time, I may try the Wine USB patches…would be cool to get the patch editor running natively in Linux.

-Matt

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hi,i was thinking to do the same as you but if i have to put the virtual box to run the editor in windows ,i do not see the interest ,and if wine do not support usb… ,maybe there is another solution .do you think that amos would like to port the editor for linux distro?lol.but yes i am interested too .if you find the way to patch wine with usb it would be great.please let me known it.