MOTU Ultralite Mk 3 vs. Presonus Firestudio Project instead of M-Audio

After buying an M-Audio FastTrack Ultra 8R, with a hardware problem, and the bad drivers that Logic Forum members warned me about, I'm having to return the unit. Loads of people are having problems with the drivers...
So, I've managed to narrow down the selection to: MOTU Ultralite Mk 3 and the Presonus Firestudio. Both seem to be well made, have great drivers and be mac friendly. I'm currently using an old 17" Powerbook G4, but will upgrade to a MacBook Pro, and want to make sure that the firewire chips on the new MacBook Pro won't create problems with the units.
Any experience with these, and feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers!

IMHO, you'll just be spending more money for the motu. I own a Firestudio Project. I think it's great. Straight forward and easy to use. Rivals FW interfaces costing 2 and 3 times as much. Many people look at the price and think because it's less expensive it must not be good. As far as the ins and outs, I believe the outs on the Kontrol unit are balanced. You could go direct in with no probs...unless you're planning on using GR3 as plug. Not sure if you can use the motu AND the Kontrol usb in at the same time. That'd be for someone more qualified to answer. Good luck with your setup.
jc

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SydSeale wrote:
The new beta drivers are now here...
http://www.presonus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3957
ah, I was hoping to find my solution here, but alas the thread is gone...
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On the PreSonus board, they're claiming it's Apple who needs to update drivers for Leopard; PreSonus says the "Firestudio Project is Leopard compatible."
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I Recently bought a macbook pro to have for my Live appearance.
I also had a motu Ultralite which worked super well with my Pc and with the macbook the first days
One day i had to play live in a club so i connect my soundcard but the macbook wont recognize it coz i cant see the popup window that i get everytime i connect my motu on it...i rebooted the soundcard then the laptop nothing...i started sweating coz my live performance would start in 20 minutes noting came out of it so i cancelled the gig for the moment and played a Dj set instead.
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I searched online and saw there is alot of people having the same issue but no solution.can someone tell WHY sometimes it works and sometimes doesnt??its very stupid to have 2 machines with a cost of 2500 euro almost and they dont work well together
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Using the drivers supplied on the MOTU CD, the device would not appear when connected to the Macbook. However, removing these from the system prior to downloading the latest MOTU Universal driver from their website seems to have solved it.
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first - hi @all users here in the forum.
i have a really curious problem with my audio configuration. at first i must say the audio-config. with my macbook pro (mid 2010) and my imac (early 2008) works fine without problems by using firewire.
but not on my imac (late 2012). there is a static, high frequently noise on my monitors. and i don't find the reason for that problem. i have delete alle the audio drivers and make a fresh install. reset the nvram and pram with holding the power key and so on. two weeks ago i have contacted apple care and send the imac to the next service provider. first i think for a defect power-supply. but the provider located only a defect ram. they change it and send me the imac back. but nothing has changed. if i heard about the defect ram from the provider i know this couldn't never ever the reason for that problem.
i hope anyone can help a little bit by this problem...thank you.
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- imac late 2012,"27 3.2ghz core i5 processor, 8 gb ram, 1tb fusion drive (osx 10.8.5)
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avotrans wrote:
I'm trying to expand the number of tracks to 24 by daisy-chaining three firestudio devices.
you'll need to create an aggregate device:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#multipleaudiointerfaces
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Blessings,

Just an update...
I just turned on my computer and the MOTU suddenly mounted! While I don't have any profound explanation, I discovered my hard drive has to be powered on, in order for the MBP to find the MOTU. If I turn off the hard drive, the MOTU doesn't mount, but it will still power up. I had tried both the MOTU and hard drive in this same configuration earlier in the day, with no success...
While I wasn't initially using power to the hard drive or the MOTU, (running both bus-powered) I tried plugging in the power to the MOTU and shutting off the hard drive to see what would happen. The MOTU wouldn't mount.
It appears the hard drive needs to be on to pass along whatever signal mounts the MOTU. Yet, the MOTU powers up just fine without the hard drive being turned on. Seems to me it should mount if it powers up...
It would seem I only have a few options:
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2. Purchase a firewire ExpressCard (which I believe requires its own power?)
3. Plug the MOTU into the MBP first, and daisy chain the hard drive to the second port in the MOTU. This would limit my FW 800 hard drive use to FW 400.
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Blessings,

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Hey, this is a tricky one. May I suggest trying the following:
1. Disconnect all other Firewire devices
- to remove the possibility of something causing a conflict
2. Try a different Firewire cable
- may be subtly damaged
3. If possible try another Firewire audio interface
- will prove that your Mac and it's Firewire ports are ok
- it's possible that when you're using a hard drive that if there are read/write errors OS X is doing error correction so you're not seeing any noticeable difference in performance, whereas with audio, it's a continuous stream and errors that are occurring you're hearing as noise
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Mainstage 3 / MOTU Ultralite Mk3 Hybrid driving me crazy

Hi,
I get constant dropouts when trying to use MainStage 3.0.4 with MOTU Ultralite Mk3 Hybrid interface. And everytime the dropouts happens I get these messages in the console. Sometimes over several hundreds of them when things are really bad.
AND...it gets worse whenever I go to a rehearsal or live onstage. Go figure that one out!
kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8052709000]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1e2,158)->(1e5,428).
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I get no help from MOTU who are saying that there's no problem with the hardware.
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I have tried both USB (with nothing on the bus except the interface) and Firewire (over Thunderbolt-adapter). Same problem.
What is happening?
Please help me!
Here's my computer specs:
MacBook Pro Retina mid-2012
Processor: 2,7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
OS version: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

Nope, no good. Seemed like it was going to behave. I left the computer idling on my MainStage-concert and when I came back i had these in the console....
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551c00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (e3f5,c0)->(e3f8,288).
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2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551800]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (e3f5,c0)->(e3f8,288).
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551800]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (e3f8,c0)
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551400]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (e3f5,c0)->(e3f8,288).
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551400]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (e3f8,c0)
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551000]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (e3f5,c0)->(e3f8,288).
2014-07-10 21:12:26,000 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0xffffff8053551000]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (e3f8,c0)
I'm dreaming nightmares of those bu now. And I'm always onstage.

MOTU Ultralite looses its FW connection at regular intervals

Hello Friends
here is a real frustrating problem !
I have the MOTU Ultralite mK3 FW soundcard. First when I plug the FW cable and the computer is off I get a regular churning noise from my MAC
When the MAC is on; no churning noise , but the connection seems to go on an off status , LCD flickers on and off at regular intervals , the backlite leds go up and down the unit goes beserk !! though I might add it initializes fine when first powered on
I have tried all the basic trouble shooting , 'changing cables , pluging different FW devices these all work !!!!)
I even plugged the ULTRALITE on my PC computer , and guess what !! it works fine !! no problemo !!!*
I have tried to contact MOTU but there tech service is god **** awful , it has been a month now.
I think maybe the 10.5 os upgrade might be the reason , because I did have the unit working when I first got it !
Any help is appreviated !!!

hi friends
thanks for your insight !! however problem remains the same even after the suggestions
yes trying to' isolate' the problem , but here it is !!!
the MOTU Unit works no problem on my PC computer , I have tried (even got a brand new FW cable) Plugging Other FW units work fine on my G5 .
The MOTU works fine with the power supply , but as soon as the FW is plugged , it freaks out !!
Here is a video link of exactly how the MOTU behaves
http://www.synfony.com/temp/mk3.mov
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MBP and motu ultralite NOT working. Firewire.

Hi, I bought a macbook pro 2.5 with a HD of 200G 7200rpm and I am trying to connect the motu Ultralite. I tried this audio interface in other laptops and desktops (PC) and it does work with no problem.
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Also tried with windows XP with bootcamp, and it does not work at all. It is recognized, but when I open the properties and load the ASIO drivers it says the MOTO has been disconnected and suggests to turn it on again (which obviously is already connected and powered on)
I read, this can be related to firewire port. Anybody with similar problem?
Any help or suggestion would be much appreciated.
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I've had problems with my MOTU Traveler and OSX ever since purchasing my MBP.
A factory reset of the audio device has been motu's fix which works for a little while but
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is sometimes recognized but not always.
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I've read these issues may be related to apples choice of firewire chipset in the new machines?

Anyone USing a MOTU Ultralite MKIII w/ Cue FX ?

Hi All !
I am brand new to both the MAC and digital recording as of last week.
I purchased my first Audio interface on Saturday a MOTU Ultralite MKIII.
I was wondering if anyone else was using this interface with Garageband. I'm looking to hopefully find some more resources on the device specific to using Cue FX with Garageband. I did try a search, but it didn't bring up anything specific
Thanks !!

jcurri wrote:
I did a weeks worth of research on the topic...was able to finally load up cuemix fx after reinstalling windows SP2
but here's the bad news...
there's still no sound coming out of it, cuemix fx keeps "stalling", and it's pointless to have it as an audio interface as it's completely unusable.
STAY AWAY FROM MOTU FIREWIRE WITH BOOTCAMP
Some of Apple's Bootcamp/PC drivers are pretty weak, I did a Bootcamp setup for a friend a few weeks ago and we ended up going to Microsoft's site and downloading drivers for the Macbook's common hardware, namely the Realtek audio device and the Broadcom wireless driver. The new drivers were much better than what Apple has included with Bootcamp.
If you can find out what Firewire chip is on the Mac you should be able to download and install drivers that work properly.
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