MOTU Ultralite

aqua_tek · Post by **aqua_tek** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:20 pm

i love my UL, but lately i've found myself needing more inputs than it offers. might be time for an upgrade.

i've liked my MOTU experience so far so maybe an 828 mk3?

if someone makes a decent offer i'd be willing to part with the UL to fund the upgrade.

verbala · Post by **verbala** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:45 pm

I hate my ultralite... I'm glad you all are enjoying yours but myn is buggy as hell and not compatible with my pc, mac or other macpro.. I could just have a defunkt one.. gonna be returning it soon.

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:52 pm

verbala wrote:I hate my ultralite... I'm glad you all are enjoying yours but myn is buggy as hell and not compatible with my pc, mac or other macpro.. I could just have a defunkt one.. gonna be returning it soon.

insanity.

INSANITY!

...

Hildebrandenator · Post by **Hildebrandenator** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:41 am

verbala wrote:I hate my ultralite... I'm glad you all are enjoying yours but myn is buggy as hell and not compatible with my pc, mac or other macpro.. I could just have a defunkt one.. gonna be returning it soon.

Hm... what's the issue? I read on a forum somewhere that an "upgrade" caused volume level problems. Should I worry about this?

beatpoet · Post by **beatpoet** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:42 am

sxezskoz wrote:
Daim wrote:What i don't like about it is the noise when u switch in on or off.
that's my favorite part.

Your monitors are the last part of the chain, everyone knows they should be switched off first and last, if that makes sense.

I do quiet like the pop to though

Daim · Post by **Daim** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:27 pm

everybody knows that.. but everybody knows as well that a soundcard should't pop when switched on/off

i'm curious if the rme cards do this as well.. maybe it's a normal thing

aqua_tek · Post by **aqua_tek** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:03 pm

spam tiem!

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94046

Hildebrandenator · Post by **Hildebrandenator** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:01 am

Sorry, I am no where near NYC.

mdifazio · Post by **mdifazio** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:46 pm

aqua_tek wrote:i love my UL, but lately i've found myself needing more inputs than it offers. might be time for an upgrade.

I found myself in the same position. I ended up getting a second UL and a Gator 2U rack bag. I mounted the ULs side by side daisychained and use the second rack space for recording snakes and cords that I leave plugged in. When you uncoil the snakes, there is ample ventilation.

This is a cool highly portable 16 i/o 4 preamp single rack solution at a reasonable price point. It would also be a good plug and play studio interface for outboard gear (if I had any).

No lightpipe tho.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:08 pm

Hildebrandenator wrote:How well does it work with Vista Home Premium?

I can say it works fine on 32bit. Make sure you download the latest drivers specifically for vista.

there was a driver upgrade that caused some problems a while back, that might have been what you read about.

I have two ultralites, they sound good, are rugged for live use and are low latency.

donnydonny · Post by **donnydonny** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:38 pm

verbala wrote:I hate my ultralite... I'm glad you all are enjoying yours but myn is buggy as hell and not compatible with my pc, mac or other macpro.. I could just have a defunkt one.. gonna be returning it soon.

I hated my Ultralite too. Whoever designed the Windows drivers is a moron. What sense does it make to make the Main Outs 11 and 12 on the interface? I'll take a dump in my computer if anyone can give a logical reason for that. It was never buggy and it never crashed/effed my system, but eventually the main output thing and the super tiny volume knob started to drive me insane. I now have an M-Audio Profire 2626 and it's made me so happy that I sold the Ultralite.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade who is actually have a good experience with the Ultralite. On paper, it's a great interface. I, personally, just did not have the best user experience with it. I hope that those who use it continue to have a good experience with it!

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:49 pm

donnydonny wrote:
verbala wrote:
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade who is actually have a good experience with the Ultralite. On paper, it's a great interface. I, personally, just did not have the best user experience with it. I hope that those who use it continue to have a good experience with it!

I'd actually agree regarding that. More specifically, they don't seem to shoot for a great "OOTB" experience. The drivers you get on the CD it shipes with likely need updates off their site, you have to register your hdw on the site before you can download, You might need to reboot a few times before it 'clicks'. The user manual is kind of disorganized.

But once you get things going, they keep going-- it is a solid interface.

phoenix · Post by **phoenix** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:57 pm

I hate mine too.

Its driving me nuts.
I get digital noise, and the card just stops frequently for no apparent reason. I then have to change the sample rate to get it working again. This happens only on one of my two laptops and all possible solutions offered did not fix the problem i am facing. It works fine on the other laptop though. If it didn't, i would have ditched it ages ago.

For extensive horror stories, look here:

http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie ... sc&start=0

Be warned.

audiovoid · Post by **audiovoid** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:16 am

phoenix wrote:I hate mine too.

Its driving me nuts.
I get digital noise, and the card just stops frequently for no apparent reason. I then have to change the sample rate to get it working again. This happens only on one of my two laptops and all possible solutions offered did not fix the problem i am facing. It works fine on the other laptop though. If it didn't, i would have ditched it ages ago.

For extensive horror stories, look here:

http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie ... sc&start=0

Be warned.

Are all of you guys who are having problems on MAc or PC?
Mine is solid as hell on my macbook pro but won't work on My Bootcamp Windows.

aqua_tek · Post by **aqua_tek** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:40 am

mine worked fine too.

the only big WTF was this one time when it glitched out, but we ruled it out as a problem created by a certain popular site's flash audio player. A reboot of both, my MBP and the UL, made the problem disappear. Rock solid from there on in again. But then again, i'm on a Mac

as has been said, MOTU interfaces are kind of notorious for not working that well with PC's.

MOTU Ultralite

I hate it

Re: I hate it