Question for Maintiger or anyone experienced with 828 mkII

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:01 pm

I tried researchig this but can't find a definite answer. I'm thinking of purchasing an 828 mkII to use mainly as a send/return device for external effects & processors. Can it stream 8 chanels of audio from a daw to 8 different outboard devices while simultaneously streaming the 8 processed signals back to the daw using the 8 balanced analog ins & outs? I seem to remember reading (not on an official motu site) that there is a limit to the number of channels one can send back out from the PC through the firewire.
Thanks in advance.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:45 pm

yes you can..no problem..also more channels if you use the adat i/o..
only limit is your harddrive and cpu speed, but any normal hd and computer can do it..the internal mixer can do this with almost no latency..
otherwise you deal with the latency of your asio or other driver..

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:58 pm

yes, it has 8 analogue ins and outs- it also has 2 other analogue in w/preamps, plus the 8 via adat as huub said. It also has spdif in/out plus main analogue out (L R) and auxiliary outs. As to a channel limit I have recorded as many as 16- 17 channels at one time before- the limit is 20, 2 via pres, 8 analogue, 2 spdif and 8 adat

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:32 pm

So the 2 pre's aren't mirrors of 1 & 2 on the back?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:12 pm

McCheese wrote:

So the 2 pre's aren't mirrors of 1 & 2 on the back?

Nope.
and once I got past stinkin hardware conflicts with my choice of Firewire card and the sharing of IO, I fell in love with this thing. It looks and sounds great.

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:42 am

I got one for sale. Email me = adam "at" evenaudio.com

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:22 pm

McCheese wrote:

So the 2 pre's aren't mirrors of 1 & 2 on the back?

the 2 pres are xtra- you actually have 10 analogue ins (plus 2 spdif and 8 more via adat)= 20 total

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