well, this really ruined my day...

The Dong EMAIL HIDDEN
Sun Jun 20 21:10:13 CEST 2010


James R. Coplin wrote:
> This has been my gripe with MOTU for years.  They keep insisting how hard it
> is to make drivers yet I have had devices made by two guys in a garage with
> drivers that worked great.  Further, as a former developer, I can say that
> the information Microsoft provides you with in their tool sets for building
> stuff is exceedingly well done - better than any other platform (including
> ones named after fruit) I ever worked on.  I had the driver testing tool
> that I would run on the MOTU driver showing it was incorrect and they still
> argued with me.  If I can run the included driver compliance application and
> see that the driver was incorrect, how they could release it and not fix it
> for years was baffling.

On the other side of the shitty coin, the Motu Express XT parallel port 
midi driver works in windows 7 (lots of other things didn't, so I'm back 
to XP lite)

With my brief look at Linux Audio, I'm surprised any drivers work at all ;)






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