UltraLite Blankspots

wilkie60 · Post by **wilkie60** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:48 pm

for some reason I keep getting blankspots on my vocal records (little ins and outs) not real long but maybe a 10th of second just enough to annoy me is there something I can do? I have great cords and nice mic I just don't understand this didn't happen on other interfaces I have used. If any one can help it would most helpful thanks wilkie60

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:52 pm

Do you actually see those "blind spots" in the waveform?

wilkie60 · Post by **wilkie60** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:17 am

Yes you can actually see where it went dead in sequence

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:56 am

What is your exact setup? Os, DP version etc?

wilkie60 · Post by **wilkie60** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:14 pm

I am running DP5 on a PowerBook 1.5 gig Laptop OSX.4 (tiger) with a Motu Ultralite and External FD hard drive firewire daisy chained through ultralite. I finally got a hold of Motu on phone but all they was to try a firewire hub and try recording just to the ultralite and see what that dose but thats not what should be the answer firewire is made to be daisy chained it is clean. Thanks Jim

supersonic · Post by **supersonic** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:04 pm

We all know that FireWire is made to be daisy chained. But it nevertheless causes problems. My first try would be therefore to record on your internal HD with the external unplugged and see what happens. It's not the first time daisy chaining an interface with an HD gives strange results.

wilkie60 · Post by **wilkie60** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:54 am

I will do just that after tossing over it late last night I was thinking that same thing, also maybe the guy from motu was right also about the firewire hub, I will get back to you results, Thanks

flypaper · Post by **flypaper** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:25 pm

I am having the same issue. I am running the exact same set-up as you.
was it a FW issue?

borjam · Post by **borjam** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:20 am

I have routinely used MOTU interfaces (Traveler and Ultralite) daisy-chaining them to a Firewire disk connected to a Powerbook G4 and I have had no problems.

That said, when you connect an external hard disk *and* you're running Tiger (10.4.X), MAKE SURE to disable Spotlight indexing to the external disk. It's easy to do: just go to the preferences, Spotlight, Privacy, and drag the disk drive icon to the window.

It might have been a problem if Spotlight was reading through the disk to index the documents while you were recording.

Of course, standard recommendations apply as well. Avoid antivirus software like the plague, and don't use hard disk encryption either. All of these features severely impact performance.

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