Anyone running MOTU on the XP platform?

[The Divide]

Just curious if anyone’s running a MOTU 828 (or any other MOTU) on windows XP, one of my friends has been having lots of problems with his. It tends to crash his pc out a lot. The reason I ask is I was tempted on buying a laptop and running Motu but if it means I have to use a mac to keep things stable I will have to reconsider.

[Jimfish]

yeah i run a motu 828 on windows XP and it has probably crashed maybe once in a year

and i use it at least 4-5 hours a day solid

BUT dont get a dell laptop to use with the 828 - it aint compatible (i made the mistake) dell have some ****ed up driver in ther that shafts the audio playback and neither motu nor dell could fix it!!! (there is a warning somewhere on the motu website i think)

[Jimfish]

a mate of mine has just bought and 828 mk 2 (mine is the mk1) and a toshiba laptop and they work perfeclty too

[The Divide]

Jim your a ****in star!!!!

[The Divide]

Btw if anyone else is planning on buying a motu, stay away from Hewlett packard motherboard/pc. They **** up

[audioinjection]

I have the MOTU 828 on XP, hasn't crashed once yet, works pretty damn smooth ;)

[The Divide]

What motherboard are you running?

[The Divide]

<--- is very nosey

[audioinjection]

it's a Dell computer, so whatever motherboard they use

<---- doesn't know his own computer specs haha

[The Divide]

ohh that interesting, I've been told to avoid dells with motu's. You must be lucky.

[audioinjection]

well so far its been good, so hopefully nothing bad happens haha

[slavestudios]

theres an article on soundcards in FM this month & in the review of the Motu 828 it says maybe one of the best... for Macs.

is the whole sound card issue always so much trouble ? there seem to quite a few threads about this subject.

i love my hardware. i turn it, i press a button, it goes bang :lol:

[The Divide]

is the whole sound card issue always so much trouble ? there seem to quite a few threads about this subject.

i love my hardware. i turn it, i press a button, it goes bang :lol:

Sounds like heaven!

Soundcards only play up if you get one that doesnt agree with cpu main board. If you get the right combination everything should be fine.

Do you have a hardware sequencer too?

[The Divide]

Actually the more hardware the better imo. It always seems to sound better than yer software, I would love to own a half decent sampler thats easy to use. One that you could somehow link up to the pc and send recieve samples to it via drag and drop. I have an old akai s1000, it sounds wickid (althought very noisey). To sample onto it takes some doing too as messa doesnt work with s1000's. That sucks imo

[DJZeMig_L]

ahahah u damn' crazy muchacho I think U just convinced yerself 2 buyan AKAI MPC1000... look it up!

;)



harware software, what ever, makes noise doesn't give u 2 much trouble for the amount of investment it's all good 2 me.... it's not what u have i'ts what u do with it (where have I hear this b4!?!? )...

But I must confess I luv dirty, big phat knobs I can twiddle!!

Z

[audioinjection]

ohh that interesting, I've been told to avoid dells with motu's. You must be lucky.

I think it has to do w/ the IRQ's as well

[The Divide]

But I must confess I luv dirty, big phat knobs I can twiddle!!
Z

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


The MPC ohhhhhhhhhh nice nice nice!!!! I want one!!

Yea jim your right

[DJZeMig_L]

I knew that ;)

Z