Motu MK3 and Windows 7

[dare]

I have installed Windows 7 RC1 recently and I am thrilled with how well it performs with MOTU Ultralite mk3... I had dropouts before... Small buffers and a lot of HDD activity would initiate dropouts, particulary with WDM... Now everything works just great with the newest 1400 drivers (I havent tried the previous driver versions) with a lot of HDD activity, unpacking 6GB rar archives... The only issue is - wrong ASIO routing.

[robleighton22]

same for me and mkII. dropouts have mostly disappeared. in fact i can't actually remember the last time i did experience an audio drop out. it certaintly does not happen in the way it used to (i.e streaming audio/video, making a screen go fullscreen, switching windows). plus i can run it at 96khz with not much of a speed loss - i could not even put in 96khz mode on vista, everything just would go wrong.

the only thing i am getting still is the occasional bsod. it is mainly after using an audio application. I have not seen it crash in ableton, or traktor (which is what i use), it realy is quite random. Completely unpredictable (other than the fact it seems to not happen when djing or making music). Motu must to be blame for their drivers here, given that no other piece of hardware i own has had any issues at all with windows 7. everything works spot on. maybe an optomised windows 7 driver might resolve some of the driver conflict issues. given motu's track record with supporting their windows customers, i seriously doubt it.

[eyeknow]

I have installed Windows 7 RC1 recently and I am thrilled with how well it performs with MOTU Ultralite mk3... I had dropouts before... Small buffers and a lot of HDD activity would initiate dropouts, particulary with WDM... Now everything works just great with the newest 1400 drivers (I havent tried the previous driver versions) with a lot of HDD activity, unpacking 6GB rar archives... The only issue is - wrong ASIO routing.

what latency are you getting?

[Mark S]

were any of you trying Vista before? I've been hearing that some of the 7 refinements were being churned into vista upgrades. My hunch is that they've been able to tweak the off loading of video to the video card (supposed to be a plus with Vista) so the processor can deal with the audio directly.

I said it's a hunch only because of some demos I've recently seen that caught my attention

[robleighton22]

i was using vista before. i never thought of vista as slow as it was installed on my laptop from the point go. My laptop was faster than my old pc, so it was difficult to compare xp and vista in terms of performance. but the difference is massive when having windows 7 installed on the same laptop. faster load times, ableton runs faster, less crashes, no dropouts when streaming video or audio on the motu828 (this was a very big issue for me, made even playing a track on youtube impossible in vista).

so if u hav vista, try windows 7 whilst you can.

[dare]

I can put the smallest latency allowed by driver (was it 96 ?) although I keep it on 128 and it is fine ~ 5-6ms. No BSODs with .1400 version - with prev. versions there was a lot of it... Running it on Cubase5 and works fine - i havent daisy-chained anything and recording more than 4 channels in the same time, but otherwise it is better than Vista. I got SP2 for Vista yesterday through windows update on my Vista installation, but didn't want to experiment with it anymore. And one more thing:

TURN OFF SUPERFETCH SERVICE in your post-xp windows for DAW system, it helps a lot!

[Grodon9999]

I just bought one, how can you get the driver to install? Just use the Vista 64 version?

[dare]

I just bought one, how can you get the driver to install? Just use the Vista 64 version?

Yup