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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > Musician's Lounge > The Audio Interface Thread!
 
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Bourbon
Sep 17, 2006

iostream.h posted:

Any opinions? I know at one point that MOTU was supposed to be 'all that' but can someone help me figure out how it stacks up now?

It'll be used on OS X incidentally.
FWIW, I've had a MOTU 8pre for 5.5 years. In OSX it has always worked perfectly. On the Windows side it has been a bit finicky. The whole you-need-a-Texas-Instruments-firewire-chipset thing is true, and it took me 3 different FW cards to find one that really works well. In Windows it also occasionally doesn't initialize into "Interface" mode and goes into "Converter" mode, but unplugging the FW cable and plugging it back in will fix it. This has never happened with OSX. Not really sure if this is an 8pre thing or a MOTU thing.

Something that I haven't tried yet is a newer Mac -> Thunderbolt-to-FW800 adapter -> FW800-to-FW400 cable -> MOTU. No idea if that might affect performance, but since Apple doesn't include FW ports anymore, it's something to think about.

I do sometimes wish I had a USB interface.

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