well, this really ruined my day...

[Martin Naef]

James,

I meant it doesn't make a difference whether you're forced to upgrade 
due to a hardware incompatibility or a driver issue. You're going to 
spend the bucks anyway... The 424 works nicely here too, though I have 
the PCI version, not the PCIe unfortunately (it was cheap, though, and 
came with two 1224...).

Martin


James R. Coplin wrote:
> I don't know, I can run my PCIe version of the 424 with much lower latency
> and more tracks than I could the 324.  At the time I upgraded the card, my
> system had both card slots and I used the 324 for about a year before making
> the change.  I noticed a huge performance difference in the two.  Also,
> being able to run a forth interface was a big gain for me and I do use all
> 4.
> 
> James R. Coplin
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
>> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Martin Naef
>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:27 PM
>> To: Music-bar
>> Subject: Re: well, this really ruined my day...
>>
>> Tony Scharf wrote:
>>> Motu makes me almost as crazy.  I had a 328 based system I was very
>>> happy with, but when I upgraded my PC, the card would no longer work
>>> simply because MOTU didnt want to update drivers for the 328 now that
>>> they had their 428 card out and could charge me $500 bucks to upgrade
>> Actually, that wasn't a driver issue. The 328 is an old 5V PCI design
>> that no longer works in a modern PC (where the bus is on 3.3V). I had
>> to
>> upgrade my card as well when I moved on to the new hardware.
>>
>> Doesn't make a big difference at the end, though...
>>
>> Martin
>>
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