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- Real Name: Jeremiah Miller
Happy owner of Studio, was just about to purchase the Speed Editor when I happened to notice no mention of operating system support anywhere. So I searched online and in this forum and still came up empty.
So I called support... they didn't know for sure but thought it probably was fine... but they would test and get back to me.
The eventual answer was "no, it didn't work".
Asking here for both confirmation and discussion of that. Do they really truly not work in Linux? If so, why isn't it stated anywhere? And if not... why isn't it stated anywhere!? And why on earth wouldn't/couldn't it work? And is there any hope of it changing?
As far as I can tell all other DaVinci control surfaces work fine, by whatever protocol Resolve uses to talk to them. At least some parts of it can talk MIDI, pretty much any Mackie compatible contoller works. (Not even getting into programs that read Midi and translate them to keyboard commands... I've used a Behringer BCF 2000 in Davinci by that method myself.) That leaves what... HID? Nothing special about that in Linux.
So... do they truly not work in Linux, and if so why not? What does lsusb say about it when one is plugged in? What does dmesg show when plugging it in?
To get really elaborate... if ones mounts debugfs, loads the usbmon module, and watches the matching usbmon files while pushing keys or turning the wheel... is there nothing there? Or is there, but Danvci just doesn't try to look for it or use it?
I dunno, just seems crazy that it wouldn't or couldn't work in Linux. I was really excited about it and really wanted the Speed Editor. It was already in my cart at B&H for crying out loud, when I thought I better check first.
Thank you in advance for any answers, help or comments.
So I called support... they didn't know for sure but thought it probably was fine... but they would test and get back to me.
The eventual answer was "no, it didn't work".
Asking here for both confirmation and discussion of that. Do they really truly not work in Linux? If so, why isn't it stated anywhere? And if not... why isn't it stated anywhere!? And why on earth wouldn't/couldn't it work? And is there any hope of it changing?
As far as I can tell all other DaVinci control surfaces work fine, by whatever protocol Resolve uses to talk to them. At least some parts of it can talk MIDI, pretty much any Mackie compatible contoller works. (Not even getting into programs that read Midi and translate them to keyboard commands... I've used a Behringer BCF 2000 in Davinci by that method myself.) That leaves what... HID? Nothing special about that in Linux.
So... do they truly not work in Linux, and if so why not? What does lsusb say about it when one is plugged in? What does dmesg show when plugging it in?
To get really elaborate... if ones mounts debugfs, loads the usbmon module, and watches the matching usbmon files while pushing keys or turning the wheel... is there nothing there? Or is there, but Danvci just doesn't try to look for it or use it?
I dunno, just seems crazy that it wouldn't or couldn't work in Linux. I was really excited about it and really wanted the Speed Editor. It was already in my cart at B&H for crying out loud, when I thought I better check first.

Thank you in advance for any answers, help or comments.