MOTM

I have to agree with Paul.  The unitor 8 MkII is a very good interface, I 
use two.  Stay away from MOTU unless you have a MAC.  Their support for 
Windows is terrible and their windows drivers are worse.

dave

At 04:43 PM 8/4/01 -0500, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>Emagic Unitor 8 MkII us what I use. USB. Great support and great timing!
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>Paul S.
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>From: <mailto:ken.tkacs@...>Tkacs, Ken
>To: <mailto:'motm@yahoogroups.com'>'motm@yahoogroups.com'
>Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:10 AM
>Subject: [motm] Way OT: MIDI Interfaces
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>Pardon a MIDI question here in analog world, but throwing this question 
>out to this group is my best chance of getting a reliable answer.
>Over the past 15 years I have, sadly, had to buy a lot of MIDI interfaces, 
>from an old Roland MPU-401 to my old Voyetra OP 4-port and on up through 
>my last one, a Midi Quest 8Port SE 8x8 patchbay type. I bought that last 
>one not quite four years ago, and it was fine... until I upgraded my PC to 
>Windows 98. At that time I discovered that Opcode had bought out Midi 
>Quest, but had no real intention of supporting this I/F. No drivers ever 
>came out beyond the original Win 3.1 drivers! They worked under Win95 at 
>least.
>I limped along keeping an old PC handy just for the sole purpose of 
>supporting this expensive interface. But now my old Win95 machine has 
>died, and while I can rebuild it, and even put that ancient OS back on, I 
>can't find drivers anywhere for this otherwise good-as-new interface. 
>Opcode's site doesn't even list the old drivers. (It's one thing to stop 
>writing new drivers for old software, but would it really kill them to 
>keep an archive of older drivers up there...?)
>So anyway, I need a MIDI Interface, fast. It needs to be at least 8x8. USB 
>or FireWire are preferable interfaces to parallel or something 
>proprietary. I would REALLY LIKE IT if the new one would support Windows 
>2000! My biggest concern is buying another $500-800 box and then having 
>the support pulled out from under me in six months when Windows XP comes out.
>I was looking at two MOTU boxes, but I'm fishing here from recommendations 
>from you savvy folks. I've been reading some mildly confusing stuff about 
>"WDM" drivers and other, unwelcome complexities with trying to get audio 
>hardware to work under Win2000...
>Can anyone recommend a good, big, MIDI interface that stands a chance of 
>being supported two or more years from now? As always, thanks in advance!
>Mr. T
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