Motu Ultralite
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Motu Ultralite
In the next week or so im thinking of purchasing a Motu Ultralite card, and was just wondering if anyone else has taken the plunge, and what your views are of this card?
Cant wait to throw my firewire 410 out the top window of the flat!! unless someone wants to buy it?
Cant wait to throw my firewire 410 out the top window of the flat!! unless someone wants to buy it?
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I got mine yesterday and haven't had much chance to put it through the paces but so far it is GREAT! The ability to eliminate a mixer from my setup was the selling point. No latency monitoring can be routed through some of the outs so I can run my Moog into it and play it live without any latency...or record a loop in Ableton and have it take over. I needed a seperate mixer to do that before.
I use Live in a live situation, by the way, which is why I had to do things this way.
It is way light and great looking. And so far, it's timing is tight.
My only question has been about routing the outs from Ableton to the Ultralite. Sending out on 5/6 comes out of 3/4 on the Ultralite. 7/8 goes to 5/6. Not sure why.
Mitch
I use Live in a live situation, by the way, which is why I had to do things this way.
It is way light and great looking. And so far, it's timing is tight.
My only question has been about routing the outs from Ableton to the Ultralite. Sending out on 5/6 comes out of 3/4 on the Ultralite. 7/8 goes to 5/6. Not sure why.
Mitch
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I finally had a chance to set up my UltraLite and have a full rehearsal...and this little thing is the best purchase I have made in a LONG time...(with the exception of the MacBook Pro I bought last week). This thing puts other audio interfaces I have worked with (Presonus, M-Audio) to shame!
I can't recommend this piece enough. The ability to monitor a channel and record it into Live with no latency is worth way more to me than it cost. I no longer need a mixer in between my Moog and my interface.
I use Ableton Live in a live situation where I play live instruments (Moog, Wurly, etc.) and loop them. I have always needed a seperate mixer so I could monitor my real time playing. I would send an out from the mixer to the board so I could, for instance, monitor when I played Moog bass parts. Then I would send from the aux sends on the mixer to my interface the same Moog bass signal for recording and looping. I would then send a channel to the board from the interface for whatever was looping. Essentially I would need two channels for everything...two bass channels, two Rhodes channels, etc.
NO longer! I can now route my Moog into channel 1 of the Motu, hear it from the output of channel one WHILE I record it and then, when the loop kicks in, the Moog comes out of channel 1. Maybe this has always been possible but I didnt know about it and it has totally revamped my setup. This is a life changer!
So...one big thunbs up for the UltraLite!
I can't recommend this piece enough. The ability to monitor a channel and record it into Live with no latency is worth way more to me than it cost. I no longer need a mixer in between my Moog and my interface.
I use Ableton Live in a live situation where I play live instruments (Moog, Wurly, etc.) and loop them. I have always needed a seperate mixer so I could monitor my real time playing. I would send an out from the mixer to the board so I could, for instance, monitor when I played Moog bass parts. Then I would send from the aux sends on the mixer to my interface the same Moog bass signal for recording and looping. I would then send a channel to the board from the interface for whatever was looping. Essentially I would need two channels for everything...two bass channels, two Rhodes channels, etc.
NO longer! I can now route my Moog into channel 1 of the Motu, hear it from the output of channel one WHILE I record it and then, when the loop kicks in, the Moog comes out of channel 1. Maybe this has always been possible but I didnt know about it and it has totally revamped my setup. This is a life changer!
So...one big thunbs up for the UltraLite!
are you using ASIO drivers?
Groovecake wrote:I finally had a chance to set up my UltraLite and have a full rehearsal...and this little thing is the best purchase I have made in a LONG time...(with the exception of the MacBook Pro I bought last week). This thing puts other audio interfaces I have worked with (Presonus, M-Audio) to shame!
I can't recommend this piece enough. The ability to monitor a channel and record it into Live with no latency is worth way more to me than it cost. I no longer need a mixer in between my Moog and my interface.
I use Ableton Live in a live situation where I play live instruments (Moog, Wurly, etc.) and loop them. I have always needed a seperate mixer so I could monitor my real time playing. I would send an out from the mixer to the board so I could, for instance, monitor when I played Moog bass parts. Then I would send from the aux sends on the mixer to my interface the same Moog bass signal for recording and looping. I would then send a channel to the board from the interface for whatever was looping. Essentially I would need two channels for everything...two bass channels, two Rhodes channels, etc.
NO longer! I can now route my Moog into channel 1 of the Motu, hear it from the output of channel one WHILE I record it and then, when the loop kicks in, the Moog comes out of channel 1. Maybe this has always been possible but I didnt know about it and it has totally revamped my setup. This is a life changer!
So...one big thunbs up for the UltraLite!
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Hasn't this been possible for a long time, with low-latency audio interfaces?Groovecake wrote:
NO longer! I can now route my Moog into channel 1 of the Motu, hear it from the output of channel one WHILE I record it and then, when the loop kicks in, the Moog comes out of channel 1. Maybe this has always been possible but I didnt know about it and it has totally revamped my setup. This is a life changer!
So...one big thunbs up for the UltraLite!
Anyway, glad to hear you're happy with the Ultralite. I'd like to get one too......
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[/quote]orbnhoj wrote:hey groovecake,
dont know if you got an answer but maybe this may help. i use a MOTU828mkII and the main outs are considered 1&2 - so if i wanna come out of analog 1&2 on the MOTU i set out 3&4 from Live. hope this helps some.
orbnhoj
Yeah, I figured this out finally. It's a bit confusing at first but no big deal.
Regarding low-latency audio interfaces, nothing I have owned has allowed me to do this. There was always some degree of latency even at the lowest settings. The MOTU basically sends the live signal straight to the outs, bypassing the computer and, thus, eliminating any latency. Then, whatever I have recorded can be sent out that same channel.
This may be a big "duh" for some of you but for me it's brand new! I sure couldn't do it with the Presonus Firepod.
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