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Motif ES 8 and linux

Last year (or maybe two years ago) I purchased a Yamaha ES8 workstation. It's been a great tool, although I just started using it last week after about 4-5 months of disuse. One thing I've been wanting to do was start editing/mixing and otherwise integrating the workstation with my PC. The big problem is that I run Ubuntu linux at home. On the yamaha site, their software appears only for windows and Mac. Since I a big geek at heart I thought I'd see how far I can get anyway. For my first step, I thought I'd plug the Motif into the USB port and see what happened... Well, nothing. lsusb didn't even return it as a device. However, dmesg reported a new device. [67560.034283] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 [67562.707240] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [67562.803313] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio So, just for grins, I restarted the ES with the USB already connected. This seemed to allow the