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attic ·
After year's of bsod's on multiple machines and config's the worst driver support ever has come to an end. Motu actually managed to fix it. They probably have a new programmer in house. If you are a PC based Motu user, you probably know what I'm talking about. The latest driver for the Motu cards is rock solid. No blue screens of death, multiple audio software packages open at the same time and not one hitch. My 2408mk3 is working great, like it never has before. Even the audio quality seems slightly better. I'm using Win 7 64bit with a 2408mk3 so that is all I can vouch for. There are some extra tools thrown in under the CueMix console so check those out and I hope this is good news for some of you long suffering Motu users. Go grab the newest drivers and never look back. 😉
aliasant ·
Oh.
I have to check for new drivers then!
Not now though...... my main filedisk just stopped working so Im trying to salvage what I can from a backup that I dont really trust....... but after that I will test it 🙂
Can you use 192kHz?
My main problem thru 3 different PCs running x64 Win 7 is that I couldnt use any SR higher then 96kHz even though theres no problems using up to 192kHz on a mac.
I have the Traveler mKII
Tzarls ·
Funny. I have and old 2408MKII and I´ve never had a single problem appart from having to buy a new card when I changed my main computer - the new one wouldn´t see the old PCI card, so I had to get a PCIe one.
Anyway, thanks for the news - i´ll try these new drivers ASAP!
attic ·
@aliasant Unfortunately no its still locked at 96khz so that's not improved. The main thing I have noticed is a huge improvement in stability also I tried some files that would crash SynthMaker and I know it was the Motu drivers due to some of the info displayed on the BSOD and those files now work. Synthedit is also not crashing with certain problem files. I have noted many completely repeatable crash scenarios in different audio software's that now work fine. Sorry to hear that your having disk problems....avoid the Chinese harddrives try to get something from Thailand as those have been more reliable recently. I had a 2tb go recently luckily it was still under warranty but that still doesn't make up for the data loss.
@Tzarls Its weird how that one works. If you look around the Motu forums you will find many people in my boat but there is always someone that has a PC that gets along with the card. For many of us it has been a long battle. Some people swore it was due to certain motherboards others would blame it on conflicting Firewire card type's many never found a fix and were performing exorcisms on their machine's to get rid of the bad JuJu. I have had this thing on 5 different machines and none have behaved, all have had distinctly different configs and components. I have tested this driver extensively since its release and can now attest that my machine is free of that bad JuJu.
If you are running any drivers prior to the Date: 2012/01/13 drivers I would upgrade.
tor ·
I once had a 2408. The first version with the 324 PCI card. It was very picky on computer hardware.
MOTU recommends Intel machines for use with the 324, particularly Pentium IIIs using Intel chipsets. AMD machines sometimes ship with less efficient PCI chipsets. There is also a known incompatibility with Pre-1999 Via Chipsets.
I never got it right 🙁
attic ·
@Tor I hope you didn't loose much time or sleep on trying figure that one out.
infuzion ·
Sweet, thanks for letting me know! I haven't used my UltraLite much, but plan to soon.
attic ·
It has made my life so much easier. I think people with the firewire Motu stuff will benefit the most. 😉
infuzion ·
attic wrote: It has made my life so much easier. I think people with the firewire Motu stuff will benefit the most. 😉
I have a FW port on mine, but I gave up on using that port due to so many FW chips being flaky. eSATA or USB for me from now on!
attic ·
Yes the Firewire stuff can be bad. No usb on mine though. Do get the new drivers as they sound somewhat better.
infuzion ·
attic wrote: Do get the new drivers as they sound somewhat better.
I need new drivers for my voice! Where can I download those?
attic ·
Ah Ha ha .. You can't download those. Try some lemon in tea. If its a permanent problem like mine (People throw things at me when I try to sing) you could try a TC-Helicon VoicePrism Plus or iZotope Nectar.
tor ·
@ Attic: No did not loose to much sleep 🙂 I got it second hand cheap. I wanted to replace my Sek'd Arc 88 interface.
After some time I went for the Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 i/o and it served me well for a long time 🙂
attic ·
I keep wondering about the Focusrite VRM Box found here http://www.focusrite.com/products/audio_interfaces/vrm_box/ for headphone mix's. This would be useful if it actually works, but I'm having a hard time believing that it works well.
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