#Motu 828 mk ii drivers#
#Motu 828 mk ii upgrade#
#Motu 828 mk ii plus#

Once I synced up the wordclocks using a BNC coax cable (Radio Shack, etc) everything worked fine. When you are using the ADAT ports for the MOTU and Octepre, are you also using a BNC cable to sync up the wordclocks? That's what I had to do with my Behringer ADA8000 and Motu 828 MkII to get rid of some little crackles during playback. I know presonus though and give it 6 months it will be fine. NB, this could also be achieved with any soundcard that offers direct monitoring via ASIO drivers, examples being the Focusrite Saffire Pro, or the Presonus Firstudio, although I would wait a while on the Firstudio as i have heard that they are having teething troubles with faulty hardware and slightly hokey drivers.

#Motu 828 mk ii plus#

In fact the major advantage is to workflow, its a set and forget, I now don't have to muck up about with my buffer settigns between tracking and mixing which is a god send, plus i ahve rock solid recording with 0 latency monitoring. I then use Cuemix for monitoring, this means that I monitor with 0 latency, record perfect tracks, with the advantage that say if i want to quickly overdub something in an existing mix with heavy effects etc, i can do so without mucking about with latencies and turning off effects etc. What i have taken to doing is to set the Buffer size for both ASIO and the Disk to 1024, this is massive and does introduce noticable latency in that the play back starts after a slight delay, however its as solid as a rock. This has one disadvantage in that you cannot monitor input with an effect on it, this is not a functionality i ever use, but it should be stated. However the methodolgy I have come to use is direct monitoring. With this set up i can get down to around 256 with a fairly heavy track count but no effects and record without incident.

#Motu 828 mk ii drivers#

I have expereimented with both the WDM and ASIO drivers and for my money the WDM sounded very wooly compared to the ASIO, so I stuck with the ASIO stuff because it has direct monitoring and sounds better as well. So for the benefit of any future adventurers in the world of MOTU and Sonar here we go. Not that anyone seems to be reading this post anymore, but I am a great believer in sharing info. I am loath to do this though becuase it means i will have to always have the octepre on, even when not actually using any of it inputs, and that thing runs hot in my rack. In addition to this i also use a focusrite Octepre into the ADAT ports, this used to work well with cubase as internal clock, but i am wandering whether Sonar is not as solid, and its worth rejigging the system to go the other way, ie set the octepre as clock master, with the motu and sonar slaved to it. What is the difference between WDm and ASIO, and Sonar seemed to choose to use ASIO in the set up, can i switch to WDM? Now i am not knocking sonar at all, i jsut figure as I am new to it, i am doing somethign stupid. Now i have tried it with different combinations of I/O buffer and mix buffers ranging from 128 to 512, and something tells me if this still happens at 512 there is a problem, i used to be able to run this set up at 128 with cubase. So here is the problem, I am suddenly getting all kinds of clicks and pops when I play back audio and try and record, it literally ruined a great vocal session the other day.ДЄlso the audio engine keeps crashing on play back.

#Motu 828 mk ii upgrade#

Recently (2 weeks ago) I swapped to Sonar becuase a) it was actually the same price to convert to Sonar 6 as it was to upgrade from Sx3 to Cubase 4 Producer, plus Sonar had Audio Snap. I have had a Motu 828 MkII for about a year now, and i have run it with the same DAW plus Cubase with no problems, seriously its been absolutely rock solid. This thread is very interesting to me, and I just want to share a problem i have been having, as a)it might shed futher light on this issue, and b) someone might solve my problem at the same time lol.