I'm not sure about RME but I usaully only hear good thing about their product. I hace two MOTU's daisy chained together, and they give me the needed realtime inputs your talking about.

I think the MOTU stuff is a good value - I mean I'm happy with what I can get out of the units, especially for the price.

20+ inputs in a single rack mount unit? Aside from Motu, it doesn't exist.

Like you say RME's Fireface has it all, but more expensive.I read recently about a new one called Hercules ? It had a lot of connections, maybe do a search

M-audio FW1814.... with this interface you'll have 18 inputs and 14 outputs.....It's compatible with pro tools!!!!

saemskin

maybe you can elborate on what exactly is your problem, I used to run a MOTU 24 I/O and a 2408 MK3 daisy chained , and I never had any issues.

gilligan204 wrote: saemskin

maybe you can elborate on what exactly is your problem, I used to run a MOTU 24 I/O and a 2408 MK3 daisy chained , and I never had any issues.

I just sold my second 828MKII on ebay, the one I kept is buzzing out the left speaker output, but thats another problem.

When I had both I connected them just as the manual says. They wont sync. I tried. They were connected properly but I could clock (for example) off of unit #1's internal clock, but then unit 2 is out of sync and all audio is garbled. I tried spdif & adat optical as clock sources also, but any time I clock off of one units signal, the other is out of sync.

The problem is that there is only one global clock selection which works for one unit but never the other.

If I'm doing something wrong please tell me, as I would much rather just buy another 828 MKII and be done with all this madness.
Really irritating.

hi

Apogee has just released cool interfaces. Have ya seen them already?

I am salivating over the Apogee Ensemble, but be aware they are currently Mac only.

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