All user reviews of 4/5 for the MOTU 896 Mk3

What characteristics have motivated your choice?

-The large number of inputs and outputs of the beast
-The ability to switch to stand-alone
It manageable via direct monitoring interface cue-mix, to make 8 different mixes for musicians.
-The ability to assign each exit has a different bus.
The mode-192KHZ

What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk ,...)?

MacPro Quad-core 2007, 8 gigabytes of ram.

For what purpose?

-Live recording or studio bands.

With which instruments or systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) do you use this interface with? ...

Motu-coupled two ADAT Octane preamps MAUDIO
5002-A preamp Tla Ivory to light
Yamaha preamp-ha 8 8 channel transistor has
A pro-Pod X3 coupled spdif
A lexicon-pcm90 coupled AES / EBU

Yamaha-tapping HS80M

I give the score of 9 as perfect in every way, just missing a PAIR entry noon ... incomprehensible to a product of this quality ...

UTILIZATION

The drivers are stable?

-Perfectly stable on OSX snowleopard

What software do you use most often?

-Logic studio 9

How many tracks do you manage to record / playback simultaneously?

-Recording up to 34 tracks at 48 kHz, half in 192khz

GETTING STARTED

The installation is done it without problems?

Mac-happy ...

The general configuration is easy?

-Yes and no ....
As long as we get to think like the designer Motu is very easy
THE PROBLEM is that it may take time ...
Example ..

hand out in the motu .... it's the Master General of the bike ... that on which branch the speakers ...
So in the DAW if you want to do a bus 1 / 2, we must assign to outputs 3 / 4 because the engineers consider that the 1 / 2 is the hand .....
However, this requires us to plug th famous bus 3 / 4 outputs on 1 / 2 of the motu ...

Except that, all is happy.

Have you experienced any incompatibilities?

None.

The manual is clear and sufficient? ...

-Yep

OVERALL OPINION

For how long have you been using it?

-8 months now

Did you try many other models before getting this one?

- I can not even begin to count them ....

Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice?

-Without hesitation, unless I'm offered a Pyramix for the same price ... 
What thing do you like most/least about it?

Like more ....

sound
the direct monitoring
transparent preamp
the numbers of inputs and outputs
reliability

Like less

the clip is activated when a pad on a wafer
logic output patch cue mix
the view meters poorly operated
the side a bit plastic.