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I'm from the UK and they're not well known here versus MOTU..

Anecdotally, I'd like to disagree. Plenty of RME used in professional PA system industry. MOTU, not so much.

The PA market and the recording markets are different, and there is surprisingly little overlap between the people in each.

I would note that MOTU is very solid for Mac-based studios, and I've heard that RME is comparably solid for PC-based studios.

For what it's worth, I've been using a BabyFace Pro on Mac for years, ADAT-connected to an RME rack ADC/DAC to enable all available audio channels, and it's been as rock-solid as any hardware I've ever owned.

Note that, while the BabyFace Pro doesn't have native Linux or BSD drivers, it does have a USB class-compliant mode that, while feature-limited compared to the proprietary drivers, may be sufficient for DAW use — AFAIK, the primary limitation is limited control over the hardware mixer, so problematic if you need low-latency monitoring of multiple input channels simultaneously, but possibly irrelevant otherwise.

There's also a full-featured iPad mixer app that works in class-compliant mode, so full control is at least theoretically possible, lack of published details notwithstanding, and there appears to be at least some support for this in the Linux kernel,

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/2eb29d59ddf02e39774ab...

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