8pre distortion in one channel when operating DAW

[AngusSL]

Hello,

I'm a new poster but have found threads on here very handy in the past, so thanks all for your tips and advice.

Bit of a head scratcher here - if anybody can help I'd be hugely grateful. I've been using a MOTU 8pre for years with relatively few probs. Got an Ultralite MkIII Hybrid last week, set it up, installed new drivers etc. and it was working fine. I then found there was a problem with the Firewire port so sent it back for repair, which I'm told may take a while.

In the meantime I'm back to my 8pre, but suddenly it's playing up. It's fine until I open up a DAW (happens with both Logic 8 or Ableton 9), at which point the left output channel starts to sound all scratchy and distorted. It almost sounds like some kind of bitrate problem - sounds like there's a bitcrusher on the channel, if you know what I mean - but I've checked bitrate settings and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary (though perhaps I'm missing something?). The right channel is unaffected, and when I shut off any DAWs that are running it goes back to normal.

I'm running a Macbook Pro with OS 10.6.8.

As I say, any help would be very gratefully received.

Angus

[mikehalloran]

The Search function on these boards is quite useful. There was another thread just yesterday complaining about the same issue which linked to another thread containing the solution.

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... se#p485563

[AngusSL]

assumed that was a mavericks-specific thread from the title

that's fixed it though, thanks.