MOTU UltraLite Cracle 'n Pop

Here's a problem I've been having with my MOTU UltraLite. Sometimes, it decides to distort the output, and when there's nothing playing, you hear loud clicks and pops. All the while, the outputs are going nuts.

It's a very high quality sound card, but I believe there's something in my Dell laptop that doesn't play nice with its FireWire drivers.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• motu
• ultralite
• problem
• noise
• click
• pop
• crackle
• firewire

[rvanetten]

I solved this problem by switching to Mac. Not a real solution for most, but I was wanting to make the switch and it happened to do the trick. Turns out, it most likely has to do with the chipset that's in your FireWire bus. Not something that's advertised or easy to find. Quite a pain. Very happy with how the MOTU works on a Mac, however.

[BNPAudio]

Firewire card needs to have Texas Instrument Chipset....

[Dibubba]

FWIW - I had exactly the same problem with a Line6 UX2. Firmware fixed part of it, and after about 180 hours on-time, the rest of the problem literally faded away. I wonder if something in the circuit needs to "burn in". Seriously.

[extol333involute]

Only had this problem while using it on FW phantom power. As soon as I hooked up the external power adapter, the problem was solved.

[pedrofru]

got a good one 4 u all...same shit happened to me.so I got the newest firmware..but after some time the fucking pice of shit that this unit is fuck 4 good.....



[koos191919]

Got the same problem, I changed my fire wire pc card, it works now.

[radionova22]

do not buy his sound card. is realy a big shit.

[robdrums69]

I have the ultralite as well and it does this same thing exactly. Make sure you are running the NEWEST FIRMWARE - I believe it was something like 1.15 or something like that. It seemed to clear up my issue, it happens now and again though.

[XBASS247]

you no wat fuck motu ,their wankers