MOTU's an excellent system with everything built in from SPDIF, TDIF
to ADAT light pipe. While it is not all that intuitive to configure,
it does an excellent job once you get the hang of setting the
routing, sample rates and word clock sync up ... the misconfiguration
of one of these is what is probably causing your crashes.

AAMOF, we would probably still be using the 2408 if the arrogant
SOB's at MOTU would go with the times and support newer, more robust
operating system technology.

Based on input from this forum, we recently switched from a MOTU
system to a Mixtreme PCI card so we could run under Win2K on a dual
processor machine. After some trial runs this weekend we immediately
ordered an additional Mixtreme card this morning.

While I haven't had that much session time on it (we rarely use Vegas
to record, but instead to mix and edit multitrack takes to fly back
out to our multitracks) Mixtreme so far is much easier to configure,
is transparent, sounds as good as if not better than the 20 bit
MOTU2408, and has some huge benefits when it comes to mixing onboard
DSP effects with plugins you can use in Vegas when mixing or
tracking ... which brings it much closer to the realm of Pro Tools
than anything else I've seen out there, short of a proprietary, black
box DAW. The onboard Motorola processor is a *huge* advantage that is
difficult to get across in print.

Downside is that you have to buy components like SPDIF I/O and ADAT
conversion separately, while all this is built into MOTU.

Mixtreme's mixer is also damn spiffy. It sits between Vegas and the
I/O's much like the MOTU console does for routing, yet is a far
different beast in that it is an honest to goodness digital "mixer"
that is infinitely configurable ... but it can also be used to just
simply route your signals onto your hard drive through Vegas and back
out with little fuss or muss and much more intuitively than the MOTU
console.

Your uses may differ from ours, but definitely check out the Mixtreme
before you make a jump.

... and many thanks again, Aaron, for turning us on to Mixtreme!

KAC ...


rob wrote:
>>I am a religious user of Vegas. I have been using a Aureal
>>Vortex 2 PCI card that came with my computer (Micron 667MHZ
>>PIII computer w/256MB of ram) for recording until just
>>recently, but decided that I wanted a soundcard that could
>>bring in multiple tracks of audio. I tried using a
>>borrowed MOTU2408 w/ Motu 324 PCI card, but everytime I
>>tried to open Vegas with the TDIF output of the my Tascam
>>DA38 unit connected to my computer via the MOTU 2408 and
>>324 soundcard, my computer immediatley crashed.
>>
>>Have any of you experienced this problem or a similar
>>problem?
>>
>>I was wondering if any of you out there have had any good
>>luck with the MOTU 2408 system, the Soundscape Mixtreme, or
>>the the Aardvark TDIF.
>>
>>Please let me know,
>>
>>Robiz