Audio interface

[Martin Naef]

I second that statement. My MOTU rig has been going strong for a long 
time now - still using a first generation 2408, a 308 and two 1224. I 
did have to upgrade the PCI card as the old one would only support 5V 
PCI - it was really ancient, yet I didn't need to upgrade the whole rig.

On the MIDI side, I'm also on MOTU now after the AMT8 would totally 
refuse to run on modern systems.

Yes, MOTU might offer a few software goodies on the Apple side, but as 
far as drivers go, I feel they're pretty good. They were among the 
quicker ones to adopt 64bit for example when others would just drop the 
older hardware.

I've been stung by RME a long way back in the past (trying to get a card 
play nicely with an Avid video editing system), so there's no certainty 
even with highly regarded suppliers.

Martin

On 12.07.2011 7:26, James Coplin wrote:
> I would take issue with part of this statement.  I've used MOTU midi
> interfaces and their card based audio interfaces since the advent of the
> original 2408mkI which I think was over a decade ago.  I currently run a
> 24i, 24io, 308, and 2408mkIII.  I've never been abandoned on an upgrade or
> forced off an interface due to OS changes.  I can't think of any other
> product out there that this would have been true of.  The only time MOTU
> has messed me up was when they discontinued support for the parallel port
> MIDI interfaces in favor of USB back in the day.  That really stung as 8x8
> midi interfaces back in those days were seriously expensive and having to
> repurchase three of them really pissed me off.
>
> That being said, there PC support isn't great despite PC representing the
> larger part of their business - at least last time I talked to them about
> it.  You do have to proceed with upgrades with caution as there have been
> chipset issues (all on AMD) but that was quite a while ago.
>
> James R. Coplin