Yamaha ESP and Linux?
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- KVRian
- 888 posts since 9 May, 2005
FWIW, Even if you get it to run, performance will be terrible.keys_au1 wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:28 am Would anyone here know if the new Yamaha ESP (comes with the MODXM) will run with WINE in Linux? Or will the old "no low level USB access in WINE" block this too?
Under ideal conditions, ESP is a heavy load... even running on the fastest CPUs currently available.
Yamaha needs to address this.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 197 posts since 7 Nov, 2021
hmmm, I have read first hand owner reports that it seems to run fine on a Surface Pro (7 and above) there are even YT vids on this. Sounds like you may have had an odd bad experience perhaps?Jim Roseberry wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 4:17 pmFWIW, Even if you get it to run, performance will be terrible.keys_au1 wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:28 am Would anyone here know if the new Yamaha ESP (comes with the MODXM) will run with WINE in Linux? Or will the old "no low level USB access in WINE" block this too?
Under ideal conditions, ESP is a heavy load... even running on the fastest CPUs currently available.
Yamaha needs to address this.
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- KVRian
- 888 posts since 9 May, 2005
FWIW, I have exceptionally high performance expectations.keys_au1 wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 5:58 pmhmmm, I have read first hand owner reports that it seems to run fine on a Surface Pro (7 and above) there are even YT vids on this. Sounds like you may have had an odd bad experience perhaps?Jim Roseberry wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 4:17 pmFWIW, Even if you get it to run, performance will be terrible.keys_au1 wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:28 am Would anyone here know if the new Yamaha ESP (comes with the MODXM) will run with WINE in Linux? Or will the old "no low level USB access in WINE" block this too?
Under ideal conditions, ESP is a heavy load... even running on the fastest CPUs currently available.
Yamaha needs to address this.
If you're talking about running ESP at a 256-sample ASIO buffer size, it's no problem.
If you're trying to run super low round-trip latency (ie: 96k using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size), forget it.
Note: I'm talking about running ESP on the fastest PC and Mac Studio builds currently available... not a Surface Pro (which is considerably slower).
ESP performance could definitely use some optimization (Mac and PC).