This sounds quite strange to me…[/quote:3gauxvh2]
yeeeah… which is prolly why nobody really touched this thread till now. (he posted this at the beginning of 2011).
I’ve used motu midi interfaces since the 90s and have rarely had much issue — windows XP, os X.. linux is another story, but that’s motu. I’ve had/still have/used heavily: the pocket express, MTPAV both parallel and USB versions, MIDI express XT parallel.. everybody has a different story though. I guess I can’t speak for the express 128 but if at any point I’ve had an issue with any of these devices (some picked up on ebay) it’s only been that the ROM chip is outdated. MOTU still sells them to this day, they’re cheap and they ship them incredibly quickly. MOTU’s support has always been astounding in my experiences when I’ve needed them.
I’d be interested if anyone here has any experience with the ESI M8u XL? It’s the only 8-port interface I know of that supposedly works well under linux. I don’t use linux often for MIDI but it would be nice to have one on my xp/kxstudio box as kxstudio just kicks ass and has continued to get better and better.
[url:3gauxvh2]http://www.esi-audio.com/products/m8uxl/[/url:3gauxvh2]