Yes, the US-224 is a great companion for a laptop, in deed. But take note that its MMC features aren't really provided by the hardware itself (firmware is the right word).
In fact, in the Linux case at least, all control signals are interpreted and converted into MMC commands by us428control, a tool-in-the-middle (so to speak) that is responsible for all that kind of dirty work. So that, you see, this might be a particular feature in the Linux US-x2y stack and not originally provided by Tascam (although I would suspect its Windows/MacOSX driver might do something quite similar, more or less).
All that to say there's a high probability that, even though a particular vendor brags about eventual MMC support, you must ask for sure whether that support is in the firmware OOTB and not implemented at the host OS driver side, in which case you're certainly out of luck. The US-x2y is the only Linux stack I know of doing that stuff, thanks to Karsten (and me :))
Yes, the US-224 is a great companion for a laptop, in deed. But take note that its MMC features aren't really provided by the hardware itself (firmware is the right word).
In fact, in the Linux case at least, all control signals are interpreted and converted into MMC commands by us428control, a tool-in-the-middle (so to speak) that is responsible for all that kind of dirty work. So that, you see, this might be a particular feature in the Linux US-x2y stack and not originally provided by Tascam (although I would suspect its Windows/MacOSX driver might do something quite similar, more or less).
All that to say there's a high probability that, even though a particular vendor brags about eventual MMC support, you must ask for sure whether that support is in the firmware OOTB and not implemented at the host OS driver side, in which case you're certainly out of luck. The US-x2y is the only Linux stack I know of doing that stuff, thanks to Karsten (and me :))
Byee