Jerry W said:I have never had a problem with MOTU. I have a 2408 MKII and a 24i/o with the PCI 424 card. I have 32 analogue ins and outs and as amny digital ins and outs as I could want though I do not use the digital ins and outs becuase I do not have much to plug into them. I am probably going to upgrad the 2408 MKII to MK III soon enough though there is not rush. For now 24 tracks at 96 k is fine. By the way, the 96 khz sounds very nice.
For the most part, I have gotten the MOTU stuff to sound really great and, becuase I use Digital Performer as my main program, it all works together really well. I did not find this stuff to be so expensive especially when you consider the cost of the Digidesign HD series or any Digidesign stuff for that matter.
One final thought. I have also gotten the Kontakt software hoping for such programs as Vienna Symphonic Library or Garritan to come out in Kontakt versions. That has not happened yet, which may bery weel be due to the OSX issues. So, I have grown tired enough of waiting that upon receipt of some extra cash (that I expect soon enough) I will purchase a P.C. for use with Gigastudio and I plan to use and RME card to make it all happen.
To me, $850.00 or so for the card is reasonable when you consider the amount of work that can be accomplished on it and, when you consider what such sound quality would have cost a mere 5-10 years ago.
pisces7378 said:As far as a sound quality to ease of use to EXTREMELY low price ratio is concerned... I think you would be a fool to NOT think hard and long about the new MOTU 828mkII.
It is Firewire (i.e. no bumbling PCI card to install, configure, de-install, find the IRQ interupt, re-install, swear a lot, start haging your computer, and then finally call a friend). It has 10 inputs and outputs. It can be daisy chained a couple of times, so you could have 10, 20, 30 and I think even 40 inputs and outputs.
It has two killer pre-amps (for that price) per unit. it has digital I/O.
It is basically the 2408mkIII without the messy card business, and I do believe it doesn't have the TDIF. (but who uses that anyway unless you are running a big front end mixer or something?) And it is a couple hundred dollars cheaper than the 2408mkIII.
I think it basically depends on what your needs are. If you have a lot of digital thing-a-mah-jiggies i.e. drum machines, synths, samplers, sequencers etc. Then digital I/O might be more of a priority. But if you are just recording yourself with a guitar and want to overdub parts, or you are in a full band and want to multi-track record the next top 100 rock song, then I would say that analog I/O is higher on the priority list. i.e. GET A MOTU 828mkII.
And if your drummer has a double kick drum and 300 drums and cymbals and you record live with a 20 pice choir... get a MOTU 24i. It has the PCI-424 card to install, but it does have 24 analog ins and outs in one unit. The last of the great PCI card units (I hope!)
I HATE cards!
illium said:sweetnubs -- i'm thinking of going this route myself. do you have any suggestions for inexpensive solutions of this nature? i was thinking of buying an old ADAT and using it as an external converter, getting a cheapo card that has ADAT optical and recording through that. i figure i could get a 8 input setup for about 250-300 that way... (assuming i purchased an older adat with some problems relating to it's tape recording functions that still works as a a/d converter... ) then upgrade my external d/a converter later...
is that a reasonable goal or am i thinking incorrectly? can i even do what i want to do and use the adat as a passive a/d converter or am i forced to record to tape first then dump into the computer?
thanks..
_illium
Jerry W said:I have never had a problem with MOTU. I have a 2408 MKII and a 24i/o with the PCI 424 card.
For the most part, I have gotten the MOTU stuff to sound really great and, becuase I use Digital Performer as my main program, it all works together really well. I did not find this stuff to be so expensive especially when you consider the cost of the Digidesign HD series or any Digidesign stuff for that matter.