Mainstage 3 / MOTU Ultralite Mk3 Hybrid driving me crazy

Hi, any news from your MOTU-contact? Will there be any updated drivers or are they leaving the hybrid customers behind?

Very curious about this, myself. I have a brand-new MacBook Pro that I would prefer to not downgrade the entire OS for. I've been dealing with this glitch in the studio and live (it happened on stage during a performance last week) so I am probably going to pick up a different brand/unit for now until this is sorted.

Hi Raymondina. I did email my contact at MOTU a couple of weeks ago but haven't heard back. I will try again now and will report back when I have news. I really hope MOTU have the resources to deal with this - I know they are probably focussing on their new Thunderbolt interfaces, but let's hope they haven't forgotten about those of us who have been using their other interfaces for years...

Hello again,

I can't wait for MOTU any longer so I will revert to either Lion with Mainstage 2 or Montain Lion with Mainstage 3. I was happy with Lion before but Mainstage 3 requires Montain Lion so I would rather like to go there. Would you say that Mountain Lion is as safe as Lion with the MOTU hybrid interface?

Any progress since last 10.9.5 os x update??? Still dropouts?? Just wondering, coz thinking to buy this motu ultralite mk3 interface but after reading this im not convinced.. have latest 15" mbp retina (2014)😟

Hi there, I just want to thank you all here for the generous feedback, as I had the same exact problem. Have a MacBook Pro laptop (4 years old) with Snow Leopard working with MainStage 2 loaded with a zillion plugins and a MOTU Ultralite interface , and I never had any issues, I gigged this setup constantly and not even had a glitch.

Preparing for the inevitable I through of creating a redundant "small" rig, with a mac-mini of similar features (memory processor) which brought me here, with a 10.9.5 OSX (Mavericks), 2.5GHz I5, 8Gb Ram machine. As most here, had to upgrade to the newer Logic and MainStage versions.

At first, the same issues that everyone has referred to here. The MOTU would work great for 5 minutes and then a random clipping sound out of nowhere. The clipping will not follow any particular action (patch change, midi message... ). The CPU would be at its normal 20% max usage.

2 days ago went to shop around for a RME, as I was sick and tired of this and had singled out the card as the source of problems. I tried a Gio Apogee interface I had and rune for hours with 0 issues,... and this is a USB unit. Before committing to change it all, I gave this another try.

Yesterday I installed the 1.6 64254 drivers, and updated everything in my mac to the latest. I worked yesterday all day long, and I saw this happen again once, which brought the frequency from once every 15 minutes to once every 10 hours of work. I overloaded MAinstage with all sorts of plugins and there was no problem. It seems the MOTU guys have done something here as these drives seem to do the trick. I will give this another week of work, and report back if things get better or I go RME as some here.

Regards,

I have to jump in here as well....

I've been using Ableton Live and Cubase on a MacBook Pro runing 10.6.8 and the MOTU UltraLite MK3 for over two years with very few issues.

Trying to move into Logic Pro 9 to teach a class; students have Logic Pro 9 on their laptops, and I like teaching with the Apple Pro Training Series books for Logic.

When I use the computer ins / outs ie no audio interface / just core audio there are no issues...

When I use the MOTU Ultralite as the interface, I get "spinning rainbows" after only a short while and have to restart. Have tried multiple reboots / resetting PRAM / and nothing works correctly... cannot trust the system for any gigs...

Glad I found this post...

Nano

Hi guys, I have the old Ultralite mk3 (not hybrid) and ive just upgraded to Yosemite and Logic Pro X, is their a reason why Logic isnt seeing it in Devices and the Mac System Preferences>Sound isn't seeing the Motu either?

Thanks

Will

I'm using MOTU Ultralite Hybrid and Yosemite running MainStage 3.0.4 with no issues. Make sure you update the firmware and audio and MIDI in your MOTU unit.

Hi everyone, I'm about to run some tests with Yosemite and the Ultralite mk3 Hybrid... I'll let you know how I get on. Hopefully I'll be able to confirm lifenoise's good news.

Steve

Hi all,

Add me to the list. I'm running Mainstage 3, an Ultralite, on about a year old Macbook with Yosemite and I am getting the same dropouts. It's been driving me a little crazy and this is the first I've gone online looking for any answers so I was happy to find this thread.

I haven't gone searching for any MOTU updates in a while so I'll go and try that next.

Glenn

Hi again.

Just a quick update. I am fully updated on firmware and drivers. After starting everything back up again, it took me all of about 8 seconds to get the first dropout. Again, this is Yosemite and Mainstage 3. Afterward my console contained several messages that said

mdworker: Metadata.framework [Error]: Boolean _MDPListBytesAddObject(MDMutablePListBytesRef, CFTypeReID (17) -- replaced with kCFNull

Followed by a single:

MainStage 3: Audio engine overloaded, resetting

Glenn

What are the buffer settings in MainStage? What MIDI controller or keyboard do you use? Here are my buffer settings.