Ultralite gliches, cracks, noises...

[viktor0404]

Hello, I have laptop toshiba with Vista and XP on it. Also Im using motu ultralite. The problem is that under VISTA, its almost impossible to use the motu, cause every now and then I get terrible noises in all chanels. Any idea if this is a driver issue or firewire or...I dont know what
Thanks

[project]

I have had that problem with my Ultralite when switching from a game to another app under XP pro, XP64, Vista 64. i think its the drivers.

[Atardecer]

Most likely the driver. Although MOTU has released drivers for Vista i sure as hell wouldnt touch them with a 40 foot barge pole. I would steer clear of Vista for serious audio for the time being - not enough creases ironed out.

As for switching from games, project, there's your problem right there. Although they offer the drivers, MOTU stuff is not really designed for games and other stuff around windows. It can work but in my experience it gets very screwy very quickly. Best to use an onboard soundcard for that.

Cheers,
James

[Nevandal]

Hello, I'm also having the same problem with my MOTU Ultralite.

I tried it on another PC and it worked perfectly.


My question for you is, on the laptop that is giving you problems, is it an AMD based system or Intel based system?

[Smokehouse]

I'm holding off on Vista until the DAW software that I use (Cakewalk) supports WaveRT interface (instead of ASIO or WSM/KS). Could be a while.

[randypaine]

They thought I was crazy at Guitar Center. I'm running an AMD-based system with an Asus motherboard and an NVIDIA chipset and Vista Ultimate. I've tried everything short of a new processor (new speakers, cables, firewire controller, software updates, clean install, registry hacking...)

Maybe it is an AMD issue. Now I just need to find a friend with an Intel boxen they can loan me...

[arth]

Running an Ultralite on a machine here with an Asus motherboard, AMD CPU, nVidia based motherboard chipset and even a non-TI Firewire chipset, without any problems. Also a P4 3.0HT based Intel motherboard with an Intel motherboard chipset and TI-based firewire. No problems on either, except for the crackling everyone experiences if switching sample rates while playing.
But I'm running Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 SP4, not Vista, so what you experience might be due to immature Vista drivers or other Vista-related issues.

The only advice I can give is to make sure all your samples either are the same Hz rate, or use a DAW or other music app that will resample them automatically. Also turn off all sound effects in Windows (including "you have mail" and IM "bing" type ones), regardless of whether the sound is actually routed to somewhere or not, cause just playing the sample causes the Ultralite to receive the sound at the frequency it's played with.
If this is different from what you're using in your DAW, it causes the Ultralite to briefly switch frequencies, with crackles and pops as a result. Sometimes you see the number on the far left of the UL display briefly flicker when this occurs, but if the sound is short, you won't -- you only wonder why all the meters go haywire for a second, and why you get the horrible crackling noise.

[project]

ok i got the crackles fixed on my system. i was the firmware. i was using version 1.00 now im using 1.15 and when i switch between apps everthing works fine now.