Motu ultralite explodes into wall of white noise

[Johnisfaster]

Its happening every session now. Ableton looks like its playing along fine but the audio explodes out the motu. Try to reboot the motu and ableton crashes.

Is it an ableton issue a motu issue or a cable issue?

Windows xp live latest live version no max or pluggins being used.

[hacktheplanet]

I had this problem a long time ago with XP and Ultralite v1 connected via firewire. The problem was what whatever firewire card I was using didn't have a certain chipset.

Which version of XP are you using?
Which version of Ultralite?
USB or firewire?
What firewire interface are you using?

[chase]

It could well be just the Motu, they have this problem with a number of their models (I have an 828mk3), they've known for years, and they've never done anything about it. I've had full-blast white noise suddenly coming through my speakers - lovely, that's great for my ears but what do I need ears for? In my case and others it's not a firewire issue or a driver issue or an OS issue, because it's happened to me with no computer (and I use a Mac) attached to the interface. Frankly they're lucky they don't have a class-action lawsuit against them, it's inexcusable to release audio hardware that has a bug that could seriously damage your hearing and then ignore the problem completely.

Try other DAWs, try leaving your computer turned off, try changing your firewire connection - if you still run into the problem, dump that defective piece of crap and get something else.

[swishniak]

ive heard of this happening to people with other firewire devices linked up before or after the MOTU.. sucking too much energy..

[masterblasterofdisaster]

ive heard of this happening to people with other firewire devices linked up before or after the MOTU.. sucking too much energy..

I used to have my Ultralite hooked up after my firewire drive -- it would produce out of control white noise whenever the firewire drive was being written to.

The sudden onset of white noise was alarming, seemingly random, and nearly deafening. Totally uncool, as the the best I can tell, MOTU has nothing to publicly say on the matter.

Solution: I no longer use the firewire drive. Long term solution: acquire non-MOTU audio interface.



Good luck, and keep your ears safe.

[nathannn]

This is a Windows issue. The reason 'company's know about these problems for years and never do anything about it' is because there is nothing to be done on their end. The problem is with Windows.

[masterblasterofdisaster]

This is a Windows issue. The reason 'company's know about these problems for years and never do anything about it' is because there is nothing to be done on their end. The problem is with Windows.

The problem occurs on OS X for me.

[pencilrocket]

MOTU : Garbage

[chase]

This is a Windows issue. The reason 'company's know about these problems for years and never do anything about it' is because there is nothing to be done on their end. The problem is with Windows.

No, it is not a Windows issue. I've never owned a Windows box or attached one to my MotU POS, so how is it that I've experienced this problem numerous times?

It's not a Firewire issue either, or at least not exclusively, since I've had the problem with nothing connected to the MotU except speakers. I've never had a Firewire drive attached at the same time either.

Buy something else.

[innainna]

It could be a spdif ports issue: white noise due to bad calibration of the spdif transceivers.
Try searching the web with words spdif white noise motu

[3dot...]

test the audio interface on another machine to be certain....
look to see if there are any firmware updates made by motu for this model