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I've had a few laptops now and it seems to be pot luck as to whather thet are noisy whe using the psu. If you take the earth off the noise disappears. I do it by pluggin the psu in upside down in the socket on British plugs. Latops are generally plastic so it wont fry you either.. Peace G > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:06:18 -0400 > Subject: Re: Firewire interface recommendations > From: andre@andredonawa.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > Sjaak, > > I was wondering how low is your latency? > > Andre > > http://twitter.com/AndreDonawa > http://www.andredonawa.com > http://cdbaby.com/all/andredonawa > http://www.myspace.com/andredonawa > > > 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 > > http://premonitionfactory.com/ > > http://livelooping.be/ > > > > > > > > > Not got a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free |