hello all,

I thought I should report my experience with MOTU's 2408mkII. I understand that PD users are very concerned with hardward configurations and such things (particularly when dealing with ASIO and multi-channeling).

I LOVE IT!

FYI: I posted a question last week just prior to buying the device. Nobody responded with info or opinions specifically about the 2408mkII; but there were some interesting responses about the MOTU 808.

I have now been using the 2408 for approximately two hours and my initial response is very positive. Here are the details so far:

• 2408mkII - Firewire device.

• ASIO drivers (WDM) (MME support is also just a click away but I've used WDM within PD) Latency is not noticeable. I haven't tested it for an exact measurement, but let me say right now that I don't hear any delay at all; if i had to guess, latency is much less than 10 ms.

• standard windows drivers also work just fine, but latency is "normal".

• PD 0.35 test 28

Windows XP 1.8 P4 processor.

• 8 channels works great! I just have to buy more speakers!

With 2 channels of simoultaneous input and output, CPU usage bounces around 12 - 16%. (That's running signal directly from adc~ to dac~ with no other processing.)

• 2408mkII price $1450 canadian dollars. Considering other hardware on the market I felt that this was very fair and reasonable.

Regards, Dave Sabine