whirlwindRA
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I'm a computer type, and thus most of my computers run some variant of GNU/Linux. One of the only reasons my desktop still runs Windows is because I do some studio stuff sometimes and am accustomed to DAWs that are Windows-only (e.g. Cubase), plus my USB audio interfaces (Tascam) have little or no Linux driver support.
I'm thinking about building a new desktop fairly soon. So, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience running a (fairly beefy) Linux host with a Windows VM plus USB port/controller passthrough in order to do recording/mixing on the Windows VM. I've seen online that it is certainly possible and that USB controller passthrough is preferable, but I am wondering if it is actually practical and worth configuring versus having a separate bare-metal Windoes install for studio purposes.
Any thoughts?
I'm thinking about building a new desktop fairly soon. So, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience running a (fairly beefy) Linux host with a Windows VM plus USB port/controller passthrough in order to do recording/mixing on the Windows VM. I've seen online that it is certainly possible and that USB controller passthrough is preferable, but I am wondering if it is actually practical and worth configuring versus having a separate bare-metal Windoes install for studio purposes.
Any thoughts?