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Hi Roach, I did a bit more testing yesterday and found a couple of strange things. When I have a Cubase project containing one track with the Omnisphere plugin lodaded with its patch browser open, my cpu is sitting at around 65% (there is one recorded vocal track and one recorded guitar track as wel...

Hi Roach, I have come to the conclusion the my machine is just not man enough to run the big Omnisphere patches and I will have to throw more money at it at some point. My current spec is:- ASUS P4PE Main Board P4 2.8GHz CPU 2Gb PC2700 Ram 1 IDE CDRW 1 IDE DVDRW 2 * 120Gb 7200rpm IDE HDDs :- Disc 0 ...

Roach Well I finally managed to get the SP1 1394 drivers in and aaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh 10 times worse !!! The crackling was even happening on LOADING the patches !! What a dissaster. I have gone back to the SP3 drivers now and it is back to how I was and at least now the patches load quietly even if t...

Hi Roach, Thanks for your continued interest. It is not the multiple copies of the cab files giving me a problem. There are multiple instances of the two 1394 files themselves all over the place. I guess I could take the approach that once I have secured the cab files I should just be able to delete...

Ok, I tried your suggestion of temporarily moving the cab files off my system onto a USB drive, disconnected it and then tried again to delete the driver files from system32\drivers but they still come back!! I did a search for the two files and they are located in quite a number of other places so ...

Hi, I have the same clicking squealing problems so I was glad to see your post. I managed to do the registry hack without problem but it did not fix my problem so I went on to try part 1 and replace those to SP2 driver files with their SP1 counterparts. No problems finding the SP1 files but was unab...

Hi all, just wondering if there is anyone out there using Omnisphere with their Firewire 828 MKII who are experiencing clicks when changing chords/notes with Omnisphere. My problem only appears to happen with some of the larger Omnisphere patches. I am running Cubase 4.5.2 on a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with...

Finally managed to get the right balanced leads to switch to the balanced outputs of the PODXT Pro. Man what a difference !!! No probs clipin' the inputs now Thanks for all your um err "Input" guys

I do believe that balanced does make a difference. If you think about the way a balanced setup works. The balanced cable carries two signals one of which is phase inverted. At the receiving end, these are passed through a difference amplifier effectively doubling the amplitude of the musical signal ...

Are the outputs from your synth balanced and are you using balanced cables ?

Actually, yes they are quite low, just 2 segments lit at best. Is this normal? No way could I ever get them clipping with either the drum machine or the Pod ! Also, the Pods 1/4" outputs are unbalanced ouputs, would that make a difference?

Yes, all the analog inputs were defaulted to +4dB when I first turned on the Motu from new. I am glad that it sounds as though my unit is functioning as it should and as you say, I still have the +6dB to use if I am really stuck. Thanks again for all your help matey, I know who to ask for when I com...

Hey Smokehouse, I tried my Line6 POD XT Pro (guitar processor) into a pair of inputs on the Motu and again, to get anything close to 0dB level on an SX3 audio input channel, I have to set the inputs on the Motu to -10dB and have the volume of the Line6 processor on max. I guess it is useable like th...

Hey Smokehouse, thanks for your quick response matey. I did wonder if I missunderstood the use of the gain section of the Motu. I am from a live sound/mixing environment and am used to gain meaning what it says gain for the input and not what it does hear which is more like setting levels relative t...

Hi, I have had my 828MKII for a couple of days now. I have it hooked up by firewire to my PC running XP and SX3. My issue is, I have a drum machine connected to analogue inputs 3and 4 on the 828. The volume of the drum machine (which I understand to be a line level device) is on full but I am not ge...