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Well, I have heard that the RME Fireface UC is one that can run at 64 samples but I think it's rackmount and not terribly portable, also almost twice as expensive as the Ultralite. Mind you any interface with a bit of functionality won't be USB bus-powered and so that reduces true portability. The U...

Firewire 400 on my laptop doesn't work. Once I had set the USB power saving mode off for USB on my laptop the unit has worked fine. It wouldn't be much good for playing softsynths live with a MIDI keyboard since there are pops and crackles at 64 samples but that's good enough for me to play my Johnn...

I would have thought that this is something a MOTU-dedicated forum would know? Two things: 1) This is not a company run forum. You probably knew that. 2) This is primarily a Mac-oriented board for Digital Performer users. It was conceived and started as such. The Windows areas were added by me (eve...

Had the Hybrid delivered today and Sonar says 'No MOTU device could be found. Make sure your MOTU Audio device is connected, powered on, and that the drivers are installed.' 'There are no Audio devices for the current driver model on your system.' I assume this is a bad sign. What do I do, send it ...

I don't have anything about ICH9 or ICH10 on my Win7 64-bit HP laptop only Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 3B34. Anyone know if that is likely to work with a Hybrid? Had the Hybrid delivered today and Sonar says 'No MOTU device could be found. Make sure y...

I don't suppose you can do something freaky and draw the power from a firewire cable yet be using USB for the audio connection?

1nput0utput wrote:No, the interface won't work with USB bus power. You'll have to use the DC adapter if you're connecting it by USB.

OK thanks, thought as much.

Is the USB connection bus-powered? The specs I've seen only mention firewire bus-powering the unit...

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I don't have anything about ICH9 or ICH10 on my Win7 64-bit HP laptop only Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 3B34.

Anyone know if that is likely to work with a Hybrid?

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1nput0utput wrote:Windows 7 and Windows Vista don't support parallel devices, so you'll need to get a USB MIDI interface.

Yep, I know, but there are USB/parallel converter cables...

It's a long shot since there are probably no MOTU drivers for the Micro Express Parallel but I thought I'd ask.

I've been using my Micro Express Parallel with 98 then XP for years - works great. Presumably there is no way of getting it to work with Win 7 64-bit via a USB adapter or something?

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Thanks Muzicole, interesting. Which branch of Digital Village was that? Can the machine go down from 256 samples under USB2? Did you manage to test triggering softsynths via USB2? I believe that even if your expresscard is TI it still has to go through the chipset of the laptop controller so it may ...

Good to hear the progress under USB2.

I was thinking of buying this fairly shortly, so any views on performance, latency when triggering softsynths via MIDI would be appreciated...esp. under Win 7 64-bit.

cheers

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