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Re: Firewire interface recommendations



Sjaak,

I was wondering how low is your latency?

Andre

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On Fri, February 5, 2010 5:44 am, Sjaak Overgaauw wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:16 AM, André Donawa <andre@andredonawa.com>
> wrote:
>> I was really looking forward to the ultra lite. Are you using the mk3?
>> If so usb or fireiwre?
>
> Hi Andre,
> I  have the firewire only version of the Ultralite mk3 running on Mac
> OSX 10.6. This combo is rock solid, it never crashes so far, very
> stable drivers. USB2 was added my MOTU a few months ago, but the model
> is still called mk3 I think.
>
> Regarding noise and USB, that's a common issue on many Windows
> laptops. I have used many different Toshiba's for my work and they
> were all noisy when I used USB and had the powercable  plugged in. On
> batteries, it was fine. A general recommendation is to use a dedicated
> laptop for your music, re-install the OS from scratch, and upgrade the
> OS and drivers to the latest versions. That's usually a good start for
> a stable system. What OS do you use? XP? Vista?
> --
> Sjaak Overgaauw
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