Re: Digital Audio Interface

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Jeff,

my reply has several parts:
First, I don't understand what you mean by "I can record off of the 
ASIO". Could you perhaps describe in a little bit more depth how the 
signals run on the computer/MOTU interface (i.e. which software, what is 
used for recording etc.)?

Then, I cannot believe that the MAudio does not allow you to select the 
tracks independently - meaning the behaviour you describe is possibly 
some setup or driver issue. If you are content with the interface 
otherwise, perhaps check that again - possibly only the MME drivers have 
been installed (and the ASIO drivers are missing), or you accidentally 
connected the interface to USB1.1 (or it is recoginzed as such by your 
computer), so the interface acts as a one-input/one-output interface due 
to the low USB1.1 bandwidth?

Third thing: whatever you do, try to connect different computers via 
SPDIF. It makes life so much simpler.

 Yours,

             Rainer

ps: if you really want another interface - what's your budget? 
Otherwise, you might get more of the recommendations like Anthony's, or 
mine (RME Fireface UFX looks sweet ;). Depending on what you want to do, 
I would not suggest the TC interface - they tend to have issues with 
their drivers (last week's MSSS essentially broke down due to a driver 
update), and suffer from bad low-latency performance in general. Then 
again, for more studio-oriented work (where latency is usually not an 
issue), they may work fine (audio quality is outstanding).

Jeffery Duke schrieb:
> I presently have a MOTU 896HD firewire interface which I use for 
> podcasting.  It works great because I can record off of the ASIO while 
> I set the output to the main mix, in order to send to Skype and record 
> it at the same time.
>
> So I decided to pick up a new unit, a M-Audio Fast Track Ultra, which 
> would be great, except in the Windows driver assignment, I don't have 
> the option to pick which channel/mix to assign, it's just, "Output" or 
> "Input".  The MOTU has all of the channels broken out along with the 
> Mix for playback.


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