Need new interface!!!

I love my Motu 828, Have they got a model that would do your job,?

I have never had any trouble with mine for 10 years.approx.

no havent daisy chained anything, so cant help there.

plenty of highly experience people here to help...just gotta rouse them...:-)

geoff

MOTU, Excellent...

RME, Excellent

Both solid dependable devices.. use Firewire if possible.

Not sure why the M-Audio is cutting out though, it does take M-Audio a bit to get the drivers right but when they do it usually works ok. How are you getting 12 inputs on the M-Audio?

If you try another interface make sure you can return it as not all of Apple's Firewire plays the same, just sayin"

What sample rate are you recording at, what is your I/O Buffer set to?

+1 for MOTU. I have an original Ultalite and an Ultralite mk3 hybrid - both excellent devices that just work. Low latency and depandable (I use them on stage where they HAVE to work every time all the time).

And thoughtfully designed too - they've thought about pretty much every little detail, including virtual loopback channels, standalone mixer operation and the ability to clock to any other coreaudio interface using just the driver - no physical digital audio or clock connection - makes them great candidates for aggregate devices. Preamps on my ultralites have always been nice and quiet.

RMEs are supposed to sound better - and they probably do, but they cost around twice as much per channel of I/O and the difference will be slight.

I'd agree about MOTU boxes, always worked great for me. Other options have a reputation for sound but when we did a shootout between MOTU and other options that were way more expensive, the MOTU came out just as well.

oh yeah - about using ADAT inputs - you're right. those ADAT channels should always show up as just extra input channels on the interface, but will be silent unless something is plugged into them. Never actually done it on a MOTU, but that is how it works on other interfaces.

ADAT (like S/PDIF) is just streaming interleaved digital audio samples, and unlike a firewire or USB connection, caries no information about what sort of device is plugged into it - just the plain old raw audio stream (with probably things like sample rate and bit-depth piggy backing on there as well - not sure of the actual protocol).

I need an interface too. I have a 17"MBP. Soon will get Logic 9. Soon will get a Home theater in a box that is 7.1.

Last week I saw MOTU came out with a HDMI interface. This looks to be the only way I can get audio out of my MBP to an audio amp......HDMI. I dont think USB or FW can do 7.1

I know its "Home Theater" but at least it will get the job done.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/motu-hd-express-hdmi-video-interface/48 6046

any usb or firewire audio interface with 8 output channels can totally do analog 7.1 surround. 7.1 is just 8 channels of audio. then you set up in audioMIDI setup and/or logic which channels on your interface you want to correspond with which speaker.

Now, if your home theater system doesn't have individual analog audio channel channel inputs, or you really must connect digitally to it, then that's true - you'll need HDMI or optical audio (which i understand macs have in the headphone jack - but dunno if it does surround) or something like that. And there, when we get to the consumer-oriented stuff, that's where my knowledge ends 🙂. Can a mac send surround audio out to HDMI on the thunderbold port with just a thunderbolt => HDMI adapter? I bet you could google that and get a quick answer.