Motu 828 mk iii firewire3/14/2024 ![]() ![]() My tracks and recordings (2 tracks or 9 tracks, it does not matter) are always crackly and latent at startup - and will often crash the whole setup within minutes of any work. This last week, I just could not get anything done, with songs crashing and the Firewire interface between the MOTU and the PC dropping or failing to link about half of my startups. I considered moving to Focusrite because of the feedback on stability and reliability with the PC. The good news is that MOTU units re-sell for a hefty percentage of their acquisition price - and I have to upgrade PC's regularly anyway - so this is a decade long experience with MOTU and the PC. This, however has shown to be a consistent problem with all 6 manifestations of PC-MOTU systems I have installed. Thinking this errantly to be a 'throughput' issue, I sadly upgraded my units, PC's, and technologies over 12 years, mistakenly thinking that this would solve the issue. Sometimes they will get in a phase where they will refuse to connect 3 out of 4 startups, and I have to power down both units to have a decent shot at getting them to link together. This is attempted over 2 differing DAW suites. The USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 and 800 links (have had them all - isolated and installed new cards, etc.) degrade and lose connection given anywhere from an hour or two, to simply one or two minutes. I was sadly on my fourth PC and third MOTU 828 series unit - sixth combination of such as well - and they have all done the same exact thing. ![]()
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