I had considered the Motu Ultra Light myself. The fact that you can go USB or firewire was vary attractive to me. I wouldn't have to have a firewire card on my laptop. I like being able to take my laptop on the road with me for recording gigs, song ideas, and doing edits for mixes...
The last interface I bought was the M-Audio ProFire 610. Its about $200 or so less than the Motu.
I have owned this ProFire, a Presonus FireBox, a Motu 828 Mk2 and the M-Audio Fast Track Pro. I have bought and returned a few of the Lexicon products.
For my experience, I was most happy with the Motu 828 MK2. Regardless of what Presonas tells you, I found the pre-amps on the FireBox to be junk, I never had any problems with audio playback or recording though, even when the track and plugin count was quite high. The M-Audio ProFire 610 has pretty good pre's, but she will start stuttering quickly under a heavy load.
Some of my tunes have as many as 54 tracks, and man this thing gets bogged down, no matter what you do... At least this is the case in Windows XP service pack 3. Maybe it will be better in Windows 7?
I thought all and all the Motu was the most stable device, and was the best bang for the buck for sound and performance, but this has been a while...
I probably shouldn't run the M-Audio ProFire down so bad, maybe my computer is just living in its last days.
I ordered a Daw from Dancing Dots around the first of October, and was hoping to have it by now, but who knows when that will ever see the light of day... Hopefully by the end of the month I may have it. By then my need will be a lot less, I'll have mixed my record, glitching playback and all...
Even when it finely does come, I may have trouble with the ProFire and Windows 7. If that's the case, I will go for the Motu Ultra-Light or one of the Focusrite products, being that these guys rave about them so much...
All I can say is, I never had day 1 of trouble out of my Motu, perhaps things are different now though. It seems nothing is what it used to be...
Shawn www.shawnbrockmusic.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:30 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU / firewire & external AI compatibilities
Where and what kinds of issues? A number of us are using Focusrite devices on firewire and I have heard 0 issues with these devices. If there are anythen, I would certainly like to know as I recommend them to clients. Youwill need to be a lot more specific than that E.G, post URL's so that we canall read about it. Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ -----Original Message-----From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] OnBehalf Of Campbell, Wiley L. (Portland) Sent: 09 November 2010 16:41 To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] MOTU / firewire & external AI compatibilities Lot's of list chat on PC firewire problems with external Ai devices, e. g. Texas Instruments chipsets / FocusRite. Any experiences / opinions on list re accessibility / quality of the MOTU stand alone AI's like UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid? This unit supports both USB & Firewire. PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectzq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq
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