MOTU 828 vs Layla24

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Dave S.

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I’ve just ordered a Dell 8200 laptop to use for recording. I’ve been using a desktop for 3 years with a Delta66/Omni I/O. My problem is I’m stuck on the sound card choice for the laptop. It looks like it’s down to a Layla24 with the cardslot interface or the MOTU 828. I’d like to get the MOTU but have heard of bad experiences with people using it under Windows (the laptop comes with XP Home).
I’d appreciate hearing from anyone with experience with either of these cards under Windows.
Dave
 
I think the MOTU's were able to run with 9X OS's but to my (limited) knowlege they don't support XP/2000. I was looking at the 828 too but I'm holding off and sticking to stereo on my old laptop. RME Hammerfall is one I was looking at the most seriously. My Cubase would work great with it.
 
I am using my 828 w/ Windows XP and have no probs yet!
 
that's cool evhwanabe. I just read on their site that they have drivers for XP & win2k so I stand corrected. How much have you "worked" it, and what's your software?
 
ive been using darla (the very little sister to layla) for a few years. I can tell you that echoaudio supports windows very well.

i am not an "expert" but i would go with layla as you first intended, they make good stuff from my experience.

-alex
 
what about the digi002, it has firewire input. :)

edit: nevermind looks like out of your price range.
 
T_chance I am using Sonar and I haven't really worked it to its full potential. I also have an alesis AI-3 analog to adat converter which is hooked via a lightpipe to the 828, so technically I have 16 analog I/O's, although I have only used about 6 simultaneously, but I did compare a track I recorded from the AI-3 to one that I recorded direct into the analog input of the 828 and it sounded the same to me. I had to do some tweaking in sonar to get everything to work together (expected) but once that was all set I was ready to record. I am only recording at 16 bit 44k just because I burn everything on to a cd later anyways, but the 828 has the capability to do 24 bit 48k. The one problem I have had is when I use an outboard mixer and run the outs of the mixer into the 828, I get alot of noise, but I think that is mostly because I had some gain issues and the 828 has its own preamps as does my mixer. But other than that I would recomend the 828 and by the sound of it anything MOTU makes!
 
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