Hey Phil, I've tried absolutely everything, with out success with the presonus card, and even got myself a secondary hard drive, disabled wireless connections, and wired connections,antivirus, even bought myself a Express firewire card, as I was told by presonus that the internal firewire port card wasn't going to do the trick, even went as far as to reinstall windows, with no success. On a good note the card works fine on my desktop. I just think that presonus needs to improve on the vista drivers, however I haven't yet tried the new service pack 1 from vista as of yet, they claim to have improved lots of stability issues. The funny thing is that every time I called Presonus, spoke to Brad, Praser, Sam all of them told that my system specks is fine, 2ghz of ram, Pentium duel core running at 1.5 Dell enspiron 1520. ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:31 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: motu sound card Hmm, I wonder if you disabled your Firewire network connection? I have known not disabling that to cause all kinds of pops and clicks. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions Music And Audio Production URL: http://www.philmuir.com/ Band website: http://www.demuirs.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike C To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:46 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: motu sound card your absolutly right Phil, as I noticed that the Presonus for some reason has to connect twice to my system, and I can hear this because the sounds of connection run twice when I switch the unit on, where as with the motu the sound is only once, and in working with Sonar, I noticed remarkible improovement with response, even on my desktop. If only I could get some one to give me a tour of the q mix console. ----- Original Message. ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: motu sound card Mike wrote: I noticed that the motu has less pops and clicks on my laptop, and that response is much better in sonar. Phil replied: not surprised by that at all. Your probably getting better performance from the MOTU because it's drivers are better written. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions Music And Audio Production URL: http://www.philmuir.com/ Band website: http://www.demuirs.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike C To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:55 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: motu sound card I do have a presonus still, just wanted to add to my rig of equipment, and figured that having two sound cards is better then none, and having a different sound card is also a good idea to gain knolege, and I am the type that loves to get in to different interfaces and exparament, since I do work as a rehab teacher here in Montreal, and am currently training several clients on how to use music software,besides I noticed that the motu has less pops and clicks on my laptop, and that response is much better in sonar. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stacy Bleeks To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:35 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: motu sound card Hey Mike, I thought you were using the presonus Firepod. What happened? ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike C To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:59 AM Subject: [ddots-l] motu sound card Hey Gord or any one on list, I just purchased the Motu 8pre, and love the card sound so far. My only concern is on how to get around the Q mixing console, do I need to use the Jaws cursor? and how can I efectivly lower or raise the main out volume? Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.