Motu 2408MK11 and WinXP

[man@work]

Hi all!

Has anyone had any luck installing a Motu 2408
Mk 11 on a new WinXP machine? Win XP will
not accept my original install disc, nor will it
recognize the newest drivers from the Motu
site.

P1V 2.66GHZ, 512MB DDR SDRAM, 845PE Chipset

Thanks for any help!

Mike

 

[laptoppop]

Yes, I was eventually successful, but it was a pain. I had to try a couple of different motherboards to get one that would work. Supposedly, the newer 2048 with the 424 interface board is more compatible with a wider range of equipment, but the 324 board is notoriously picky.

I ended up with a Pentium 4 on an Asus mboard with an Intel chipset.

One good source of reference is the web boards at www.unicornation.com.

Good luck!
-lee-

 

[man@work]

Thanks laptoppop!,

I had great luck with the Motu on my old
Celeron 900mhz, but the drivers just won't
load on this P1V. There seems to be some
issues with the new Mark III as well, so I'm
thinking it's time to make the move to RME.

Thanks for your help!
Mike

 

[sweetnubs]

hiya, welcome to the wonderful world of MOTU. motu stuff is a pain in the ass and what I've heard about customer support and driver support is atrocious. Now mind you thank god I don't own any motu products but a friend of mine a few months back was having problems installing a 1224 expansion on a pci-324 card with a 2408. He asked for the assistance of the nubmeister since I'm quite familiar with troubleshooting DAW's. Now he did have a 2408 running under xp with the most current drivers at the time (i think wdm v.2.0) but once the 1224 was installed the 2408's audio was FUBAR'd but the 1224 would work fine. Nubs tried in vain for several hours to correct the problem to no avail. I finally had to say the most hated phrase in the audio engineers vernacular "call tech support" I guess I took him several days to get through and they finally figured out the 1224 with rom versions 1.1 and below would not work on a pci-324 card with any other breakout box attached! Now what really stuck in his craw is he bought it as an expansion box. The whole point of motu products is the ability to add breakout boxes through the firewire jacks on the pci-324 card. This of course means they didn't even test the units to see if they were compatible. So the fix finally was is they had to ship him a new ROM chip which he had to install. NUBS suggestion: at this point in time I am getting really sick of PC based DAWS. Save up and buy a stand alone unit or better yet a RADAR. Nubs his now setting his eyes on the RADAR. (IZ not OTARI) P.s. the Motu stuff doesn't sound so hot anyways, if you are looking at a mkII I suggest RME in the similar price range. Although I've heard from a reliable source the mkIII gets its converters from the same source that RME does.

 

[man@work]

Just a note to anyone watching this thread!

Got the motu drivers loaded, fired up Cubase SX
and all is well...no snaps. cracks or pops...plays
nicely with my Audiophile 24/96...and midi is
even in sync!!

sweetnubs: I agree about the motu stuff...but when
you can get it to work...it works great!

Mike