Howdy,

Just saw a post about the new Rev 828 on the Unicornation site. Looks pretty damned cool if you ask me.
I guess there's an ad for it on the back of the new Electronic Musician. Someone posted this link too: http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--MTU828MKII.

I'm planning on getting a mac with dp4 and I'm not sure does the MOTU 896 firewire act as a soundcard? if not what is its purpose and what is a great sound card to get for a mac. i want to use digital and analog in/outs.

Can you give me a good chain from say a keyboard or mic to the cpu.

like mic - mic preamp - a/d conv. -etc. also please refer me to a great mic preamp.

I was wondering if I should go with the MOTU 896 with built in pre's or break the system up and get something like the MOTU 2408 and a Focusrite 8 chanel pre with built in compression and limiting. The 24 i/o looks interesting too, but it may be a little expensive for me initially. Opinionsand feedback would be great. :confused:

Thanks Guys...

I am fairly new to all of this and I am finding very hard to make a final descision about setting up my home studio. I was going to set up with a digi 002, and an octopre (for recording drums) running on a 2.4 Ghz P4. But I am worried that I will out grow this setup as soon as I start working on more commercial type projects.

Has anyone had the opportunity to try out the MOTU 896 interace on a PC? I have heard about driver hasles and wanted to hear some other opinions.

Are there any other interfaces on the market that give you the same front panel control and 8 mic preamp's in one unit?

A guy I know is selling one for $150. This is the original one, and *not* the markII or markIII.

Is it totally outdated? Will the A/D conversion be better than that of my Roland VS 880 -EX? That would be its primary use--going into my Mac.

Anyone, please feel free to chime in.

Thanks-
.nick

hi,

i've got an ibook g3/600 with 640mb of ram that i've been using with a MOTU 896 firewire system. i've got the 30gb hard drive paritioned to 3 10gb sections. one for osx, one for os9 (and digital performer), and one for audio.

what else can i do to increase the track count i can process?

thanks!

tony

I am in the process of changing my studio over from simply analog to computerbased digital recording; using the powerbook G4. I am a newbie at this; I've decided to go with MOTU 828 Firewire recording system in combination with Propellerhead Reason 2.0. Just want to push a couple of mics and a guitar at this point. Any & all advise on this choice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm thinking about a new sound card(i own a MOTU 2408 mk2). Now, i don't really know which one I should to buy between the MOTU 2408 mk3 or the new MOTU HD 192( why high definition, wath that mean?).. Someone told me, even if i work with 96hz with the HD192 the sound it's gonna be much better because the HD have better converters.

I want to know if Pro Tools is really worth that much more money than one of the newer 96kHz MOTU models like a 1286 based setup?