All user reviews of 5/5 for the MOTU 828 mk3 Firewire

I am asked my opinion.
As I have not much time, I will say that my card is on 24/7.
I never extinguished.
And uses it for everything, watch my films, or making music, I have a very good sound, and I have no problem with.
2 years and 2 months non stop?
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USE

I am asked my opinion.
As I have not much time, I will say that my card is on 24/7.
I never extinguished.
And uses it for everything, watch my films, or making music, I have a very good sound, and I have no problem with.
2 years and 2 months non stop?
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IMPLEMENTATION

I am asked my opinion.
As I have not much time, I will say that my card is on 24/7.
I never extinguished.
And uses it for everything, watch my films, or making music, I have a very good sound, and I have no problem with.
2 years and 2 months non stop?
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NOTICE GLOBAL

I am asked my opinion.
As I have not much time, I will say that my card is on 24/7.
I never extinguished.
And uses it for everything, watch my films, or making music, I have a very good sound, and I have no problem with.
2 years and 2 months non stop?
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- What technical specifications motivated your choice?
Following the purchase of a Konnekt live shows that fully on my laptop I did not know what to buy a place back and I see the motu for 100 euros more so ...

UTILIZATION

Install without problems
it works of
config clear enough

GETTING STARTED

Drivers hyper stable
no update
the test:
plug-in you want in voila, the virtual synths (ten), 24-track audio recording with 2 pramps in adat, with compressor and reverb, and parametric Equant on all tracks (the dsp card ) and it turns crachottis no nickel or dropouts!
Moreover, we do not know what that mean all these problems!
but happiness!

OVERALL OPINION

Its nickel, EQUASIS you turn serious it works, it works also compress the reverb and nothing to say! So buy a board with his eyes closed a report quality excellent price.
I run this gem of a laptop ASUS G1S (Ricoh firewire port)

I change against a ADDA2000 CPORT, I wanted better with more possibilis (ADAT, DSP)
Home studio for use in battery taken, both on the OH pramps Intgr
my config: PC (ASUS CM M2NESLI nvidia, AMD 5200, 2GB, Via chipset (FireWire), CG nvidia Gforce, XP Home)
I use the I / O ADAT toslink mode, the SPDIF to an external reverb, I syncrhonise via word clock.

UTILIZATION

Installation so easy
no difficulty meeting
look a little to the doc for CueMix to understand the routing and it's good
the config is very simple
the manual is in English but we will not stop, the vocabulary is simple audio will j'enlve a point!

GETTING STARTED

No bug yet met in 15 days of use by sync with my converter I SRC2496 rsolu using a 75 ohm cable and passing the CONV slave.
the drivers are not so rcents maj
I shoot with REAPER, but I still Sat 7
latency achieved with 10 tracks of playback and 17 pluggins 5ms

OVERALL OPINION

+ + + The routing is impressive, the number of possible leads, sub groups for live, and it is a must for me DSP plug is handy (EQ cut down lgre compression OH) that are applicable everywhere! East but rather to stand alone as the most adapted (number of sounds are made with no effect so ...)
the ratio Q / P is thundering and I must be really happy with this purchase.
I do not see anything in these prices on the market.
It remains to see over time if bugs appear, if the gear is reliable.
good stuff!

-The number of input and output, built-in effects have directed my choice.
- Use home studio in general, focuses on the composition, making voices and instruments.
Config: MacBook Pro 17 "2.33GHz 160GB + 500GB external, 2GB of ram.
Instruments used: Roland G-600 as a master keyboard, United States Ibanez, Fender acoustic.

UTILIZATION

-No worries encountered during installation.
No-incompatibility.
Config super easy.
-Virtually no manual needed and yet this is the first time I use a card of this type (no knowledge of routing before that).

GETTING STARTED

-For two days now and use the drivers are stable.
"I saw yesterday that there was an update for the driver, however I have not yet done.
-Software used: Reason 4.
-10ms latency.
-I do not read beyond the 20pistes simultaneous Since my projects are an average of 15pistes (no problems with 20pistes), no recording made at this time.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 days.
-The particular I like is the quality of the report were obtained, no I do not like yet.
-I have tried some other audio interface model before this one.
-Excellent value for money, I had a discount store over 39euros so I paid 680euros being and living abroad I got a tax refund of 133euros so she got costed 547euros ... that's the value for money.
-If it again with the experience, without hesitation, YES.

Great connectivity, integrated insert effects
Home-Studio
Asus, AMD Athlon 64 x2, 3 Gig, 250 160 160

UTILIZATION

No problem
No conflict
Easy to configure
Manual easy to read

GETTING STARTED

Drivers stable
no worries
Cubase Studio 4 and Reason 4
11 ms
over 60

OVERALL OPINION

Two months
I love everything and hate nothing
yes, a number
excellent
san hesitate

I looked for a given pro jai t seduced by this interface to different function, in being personally convinced that the therm is semi pro ps in the audio (its pro or amateur no solutions 10000) I I'm using my personal lanc.pour it fills my expectations. (I r'appel that the audio is not an exact science and that's just my opinion, for my needs it fulfilled its task

UTILIZATION

Free installation prob
no incompatibilitbr /> simple configuration
manual in English, but French version on the net

GETTING STARTED

Drivers stable
not for me no update
10ms

OVERALL OPINION

1 month
nothing particularly troublesome because the price is fair and what you can not ask for the cake and eat it too.
yes I had the edirol fa 101;
good price
I think yes

What characteristics have motivated your choice? The number of I / O, MOTU quality.

For what purpose?
What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk ,...)? For use of computer music mainly with a PC core 2duo 8500 3.16 GHz, 4GB ram, ASUS motherboard, hard disk maxtor.

UTILIZATION

The drivers are stable? Yes the drivers are very stable, I work with a latency of only 5ms, never crash contrary to what can read about some topics.

They are often updated? Yes the updates are regular.

What software do you use most often? I use Ableton Live 7 + 8 + Komplete + Kore 2 Maschine most of the time, everything turns to hair with exceptional sound quality, the CueMix is ​​a pearl!

What latency you get? 5ms without crashing or otherwise, real happy!

GETTING STARTED

The installation is done it without problems? Yes, no problem, I plug in, installed the drivers, made the updates and everything started right away without any worries!

The general configuration is easy? Yes the config is simple and clear, again, a complete manual and French is available in pdf.

Have you experienced any incompatibilities? None ...

The manual is clear and sufficient? Clear

OVERALL OPINION

For how long have you been using it? I use it for over a year now, and every day I am even more pleased with this card because it fulfilled its role perfectly.

Did you try many other models before getting this one? Alesis Multimix 12 firewire, m-audio nrv 10 ps ... no camera outclasses the MOTU have any!

What is your opinion about the value for the price? Simply excellent.

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

I got this a while back because I wanted to upgrade my converter at home and simplify my setup a bit. This converter does those things very well and more, there are a lot of features in this thing that you might not realize. I use it as a preamp, converter, monitor mixer, and for FX on the monitor mix - all in one rack space. This thing is basically great. I'm running a PC setup with Nuendo, Dual Core processing, and 4GB of ram. This connects with firewire though and the processing is done in its own hardware, so your computer doesn't affect its performance really. I use it for microphones and also with DI instruments.

UTILIZATION

Installing this is a cinch. It's firewire, so you don't need to crack open your computer case or anything. You really only need to worry about three things: Install your drivers from the CD they give you (though you should check on their website for updates), plug in the power cord, and plug the firewire cable that is provided into your computer. If you have a second soundcard or internal sound in your computer, you will likely have to tell your host which one to use - but other than that setup is very easy. I have no compatibility issues. They have a great manual which is worth reading to get the most out of this box - it's pretty think but they have the same information in many languages.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are updated whenever bugs are discovered as far as I can tell, so no problems there on my system running Nuendo. One of the best things about it is that you can monitor with zero latency. The driver disc has CueMix software which lets you make your own monitor mixes out of the inputs that come directly from the unit itself for zero latency. On top of that, it has built in FX processors so if you wanted say some reverb on a vocal recording, you can do that with just this one box. Pretty awesome. For audio recording purposes, you can get 8 simultaneous inputs, but one of the drawbacks is that that is mostly 1/4" inputs - you only have 2 XLR spots so if you're recording a live band you'll want to have some XLR to 1/4" cables.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using this for a couple years now. I love the versatility and the amount of processes this thing can handle by itself, it makes recording much easier and more streamlined for me. I've used a variety of converters, and while the pres and A/D don't sound like they cost $20,000 - for a home studio they are more than enough. You are getting a great deal for the cost - this would have been unheard of 10, 15 years ago. I'd get it again, I love this thing.