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Right, yes I know this is an old unit - but it has been my trusty workhorse
Up to recently I have used Hackintosh, which has given me good use of My 828 with firewire, with logic - but I am fed up with the effort involved in maintining a stable release with Hackintosh through upgrades so thought I would give windows a go again.
My PCI(e?) card is installed on the motherboard, and is detected and the software is installed - and I can open Cuemix and interact with the device. If cuemix is working surely there must be something simple that can be fixed driverwise to actually use it as an audio device? Or am I being too simplistic here!
As an additonal note - the current driver I have installed is the one listed for the usb/firewire hybrid.
Windows shows it within audio devices as "Motu Audio" and it disappears and reappears as I turn the device on and off. I just cant get it to show as an audio device within any apps or windows sound settings
I have also managed to get it to display within Cubase with the "MOTU Asio device".
I tried to install asio4all as well but that does not detect it.
ASIO in cubase is fine. I can playback and record. But is there a way to support using it for general purpose audio playback and recording using other apps ?
Any ideas? I can manage to get sound working with Cubase and with an ASIO build of Audacity. Is there any way I can somehow bridge the audio to windows 11 to use it for general use? Video / music playback. Youtube. Streaming etc
You should be able to select one of the output pairs in the Sound Control Panel as the default device for Windows. If you're not seeing the device in the Sound Control Panel, there could be a problem with the drivers. Also, if the 828 is not appearing as output pairs, there's an option in the MOTU Audio Setup App to have it presented that way. It's been a while since my 828mk3 FW days, but I had no issue with it handling the OS audio as well as ASIO, but that was Win10. You can try installing the drivers in Compatability Mode also.
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Haven't logged in for a while, so I hope this reply isn't too far out of date for you.
I have 3 828MKII's (well actually 2 now.. one kicked the bucket). Win 10, Firewire. So, this answer relates to that (Win11 works here too I have tried it just decided not to stay that way).
Preface... I was having issues with sample rates of I/O pairs... changing randomly from what I set them to. My solution was to disable all sound devices under Win10 since that's where the issue was stemming from. When I load up my DAW (Studio One 6), you can see it initializing the MOTU driver, so having windows do that at boot was pointless. Everything I need is available in Studio One and works as it should. But, I had no audio outside of S1. And, of course I don't... I disabled all the hardware in Win10 Sound Control Panel. My workaround was to load up Voicemeeter Banana and use that to grab audio and route it out to the MOTU pair of my choosing. Since disabling the MOTU hardware in Windows I have not been affected my changes in sample rates, which was causing issues within Studio One. No issues means I'm more productive ( not spending 10 minutes going through I/O devices verifying settings), and less grumpy...LOL. AND... I still get sound in Windows from whatever applications/sources I need.
A bonus feature of setting things up this way... Anything that plays on the PC from ANY source is 1-click record-able. The interface for Voicemeeter Banana has a Virtual Cassette Recorder.. click record and whatever is playing on your system is getting saved as a WAV file. I can't begin to tell you how handy THAT has been.
Maybe some of that is useful to your situation.
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