mattr
Resident moody teenager
Finally got my Motu 896HD playing nice with my laptop. It recorded 8 tracks while playing back 8 tracks for 15 mins with no pops 
! Admittedly the ASIO buffer is set higher than I would like it to be which has pushed the latency up.
I'm still not totally happy though... I never ever ever had any problem with my Edirol FA-101. It happily hooked up to a rubbish old laptop and recorded 8 tracks @ 96k for 4 hours with no dropouts, and when I got my new laptop it did a 10 hour session in a studio which ended up pushing it to its limit, but still no clicks or pops.
Then when I get the Motu and plug it into the same laptop that happily played around with 48 tracks, it wouldn't even record or playback 1 track at 44k without horrible clicks and squeals. Before I was running Vista (which I know isn't the best, but it worked fine with the Edirol) but its taken a new 7200rpm drive and a stripped-to-the-bone installation of XP before its at a 'usable' point.
Are the Motu drivers for Windows just rubbish? I'm feeling forced into buying a Macbook, but they're ruddy expensive considering they're practically the same hardware I have in a laptop I picked up on ebay for £300...
! Admittedly the ASIO buffer is set higher than I would like it to be which has pushed the latency up.I'm still not totally happy though... I never ever ever had any problem with my Edirol FA-101. It happily hooked up to a rubbish old laptop and recorded 8 tracks @ 96k for 4 hours with no dropouts, and when I got my new laptop it did a 10 hour session in a studio which ended up pushing it to its limit, but still no clicks or pops.
Then when I get the Motu and plug it into the same laptop that happily played around with 48 tracks, it wouldn't even record or playback 1 track at 44k without horrible clicks and squeals. Before I was running Vista (which I know isn't the best, but it worked fine with the Edirol) but its taken a new 7200rpm drive and a stripped-to-the-bone installation of XP before its at a 'usable' point.
Are the Motu drivers for Windows just rubbish? I'm feeling forced into buying a Macbook, but they're ruddy expensive considering they're practically the same hardware I have in a laptop I picked up on ebay for £300...
