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Feb. 4th, 2009 10:33 pm"Daher aktiviert das Fireface automatisch das Non-Audio-Bit im digitalen Datenstrom. Dies verhindert bei den meisten SPDIF-Receivern eine Verarbeitung des Signals, und damit Beschädigungen an Mensch und Material."
(Therefore the Fireface automatically sets the non audio bit in the digital bitstream. This will prevent most SPDIF-Receivers from processing the signal, thereby preventing damage to people and material.)
"Unter Windows 95 und 98 musste man sich um die MME Puffergröße keine Gedanken machen. Latenzen unter 46 ms wurden von Windows wirkungsvoll verhindert."
(Under Windows 95 and 98 you did not have to worry about the MME buffer size. Windows was perfectly effective at preventing latencies lower than 46 ms.)
Sorry, MOTU, you fail again. That was definitely my last dalliance with your products.
I was outraged when you thought it was ok to force owners of the old PCI-3xx card that never really adhered to the PCI standard (and therefore wouldn't work with XP) to buy the new PCI-4xx card for several hundred bucks when you could have built your hardware properly in the first place. But I swallowed it, the card was many years old, and warranty had long run out on the 1224.
But today I have returned your firewire portable audio interface to the dealership, because your drivers just do not work "under bootcamp" (as most Mac websites seem to euphemistically be calling running Windows on a Mac :P). The forums are full of problem reports, and apparently some folks contacted MOTU, only to get the response "not supported, use MacOS instead".
Too bad, the interface had a small effects section built in, which would have been nice to use while recording vocals dry but hearing them with a bit of reverb on the headphones.
But I'm not losing ten years of work in the form of Samplitude and Sonar projects, which are not available for Mac OS.
So now I have a Fireface 400 instead, and that works just fine. The drivers, including the ASIO control panel and Mixer are only 730 kB in size. When I saw this, I just knew this hardware would work perfectly. And of course it did. (Hm, perhaps Vodafone should hire RME's programmer to work on their Mobile Connect software? It might suddenly lose a lot of bloat.)
Now if only the WLAN chip in the MacBook wasn't so disgustingly bad, I'd get latency free sound even while online. But that isn't so important because I don't usually chat while recording or playing live music.
(Therefore the Fireface automatically sets the non audio bit in the digital bitstream. This will prevent most SPDIF-Receivers from processing the signal, thereby preventing damage to people and material.)
"Unter Windows 95 und 98 musste man sich um die MME Puffergröße keine Gedanken machen. Latenzen unter 46 ms wurden von Windows wirkungsvoll verhindert."
(Under Windows 95 and 98 you did not have to worry about the MME buffer size. Windows was perfectly effective at preventing latencies lower than 46 ms.)
Sorry, MOTU, you fail again. That was definitely my last dalliance with your products.
I was outraged when you thought it was ok to force owners of the old PCI-3xx card that never really adhered to the PCI standard (and therefore wouldn't work with XP) to buy the new PCI-4xx card for several hundred bucks when you could have built your hardware properly in the first place. But I swallowed it, the card was many years old, and warranty had long run out on the 1224.
But today I have returned your firewire portable audio interface to the dealership, because your drivers just do not work "under bootcamp" (as most Mac websites seem to euphemistically be calling running Windows on a Mac :P). The forums are full of problem reports, and apparently some folks contacted MOTU, only to get the response "not supported, use MacOS instead".
Too bad, the interface had a small effects section built in, which would have been nice to use while recording vocals dry but hearing them with a bit of reverb on the headphones.
But I'm not losing ten years of work in the form of Samplitude and Sonar projects, which are not available for Mac OS.
So now I have a Fireface 400 instead, and that works just fine. The drivers, including the ASIO control panel and Mixer are only 730 kB in size. When I saw this, I just knew this hardware would work perfectly. And of course it did. (Hm, perhaps Vodafone should hire RME's programmer to work on their Mobile Connect software? It might suddenly lose a lot of bloat.)
Now if only the WLAN chip in the MacBook wasn't so disgustingly bad, I'd get latency free sound even while online. But that isn't so important because I don't usually chat while recording or playing live music.
