People using Motu and PC XP. Which DAW specs do you have?

[rynol]

Hello

Which DAW specs so you use with your Motu soundcard and PC, and not having problems with cracks and pops (i am using a unique IRQ TI FW card, XP SP2, latest drivers but still getting problems). But lets not discuss the problems, just post your DAW specs that works good with Motu devices (and don't forget the motherboards).

[calaveras]

XP SP2, Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra 939 (Nforce3 250 ultra chipset) Opteron 165, 2 gig OCZ pc4000, 2x80g and 2x250G sata, mirror raid, NEC DVD burner, Matrox 550 w/dual 17" LCDs, TC powercore element PCI card. Sonar 6.2.1PE, also 7.0.2PE
Also works great with my Lenovo 3000 C200 notebook; intel core duo 2300, 2 x512 samsung pc5300, internal toshiba sata hdd, external toshiba 60gb usb hdd for audio, 945GM.

When I was using Win 2k I had to resort to 3rd party utililities to manage PCI latency timers.

[wolf2]

Fujitsu Amilo M1425 Laptop: Pentium M745; ram 1GB; HD 100GB; Texas instr. Firewire controller; Ati Radeon 9700 128Mb DDR

[rynol]

Anyone using Intel chipsets with stationary DAWs?

[antwan]

Hi,

I finally seem to have mine working perfectly. Specs are:

MOTU Ultralite

Windows XP SP2 via Bootcamp on a Santa Rosa chipset MacBook Pro 15". That's Intel Dual Core T7500 @ 2.2 Ghz. 2Gb RAM. Texas Instruments Firewire Controller. NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT display adapter. Atheros AR5008 WLAN adapter. Marvell Yukon 88E8058 ethernet adapter.

I also just posted details of the steps I had to take before it did work:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26284

Before taking these steps my Ultralite was useless.

Cheers,

antwan

[rnm]

P4 2.8 ghz, Gigabyte GA- 81E2004P, 1 gig ram, Terratec EWS 88 MT,MOTU 8Pre,Tascam FW-1804, EMU 12-12 m, Cubase studio 4.1.2, XP Home, SP2.HP NX-6110 laptop with XP Home SP2.

[dkalna]

DELL Inspiron 6400, DualCore 1.73GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100GB HDD, Windows XP SP2, MOTU 828mkII USB, Cubase Studio 4.1.2

[J8stringer]

Lenovo ThinkPad T400, 3GB RAM DDR3, 160GB 7200 HD System(internal), 320GB 7200 Glyph HD (externa via USB), MOTU UltraLite MK3, UA Solo 610, Tracktion 3, Express Card 2 port fw400 for Liquid Mix.

All the XP pro, web-searched optimizations. No internet, WiFi disabled, disable what is not necessary!
I had a bit of hiss and static at first, but it settled down and is very stable. (my quad, 3 HD, desktop still crashes with Tracktion 3) Sound is very good. My hardware sequencers monitor great with CueMix!!

[TheRealRoach]

nVidia 780i motherboard, Quad 3.0ghz (9300), 4 gig ram, WinXP SP3 (fully updated), Cubase 4.5.274 (fully updated), Motu 3.6.7.0 firewire drivers for two daisy-chained MOTU 896s mk1, SIIG FW400 card, geforce 9400GT vid card, Texas OHCI 1394 bus controllers rolled back to SP1 versions.

[Mark S]

do you have two hard drives, both as master? Have you lowered your pci latency timer for the video card? Your specs?

Mine:

msi neo II platinum, AMD x2 dual operton 175 ,1 gig ram, dual sata drive, Via chipsets, ATI raedon 9600 dual monitor, XP pro sp2, MOTU 896hd , 8 pre, 3.6.7.4 driver all nonessential peripherals turned off in bios, Separate hardware configuration Sonar 7.02 PE

laptop: Pentium M 1gig ram xp home external usb drive

[hswin]

Here's mine: hp laptop ZD7000 2.8 Gb 1 Gb RAM, Win XPPro SP-3, MOTU FW driver 3.6.7.3, Cakewalk SONAR 8.02 Producer, 3 MOTU 896HD, 1 MOTU Ultralite, and several external 7200 rpm hard drives (non SATA). I have a separate login for recording and sometimes remove unnecessary programs and turn off WIFI.

Having fun with 32 tracks in OKC!