Even more problems with the 896hd... :[

[Ethan Holdtrue]

Well here I am using my 2 month old 896HD with the typical, and I think a few not so typical problems. I'm using a AMD 64 x2 with a asus MB and a raid-0 aray with 2 sata raptors, through win 2000/sp4, with Sonar 5 PE. I have been through 3 firewire cards and am now using a ADS with the TI chip and I'm still having audio dropouts on play back and 'gitters' and 'pops' showing up on my tracks when I record. However lately my 896hd has started doing this new thing where it will start clicking at close to 120 bpm, and the sound gets all distorted. Once I restart the unit it go's away for a little while then comes back (however the gitters and pops are pretty constant nomatter what I do).

Has any one else gone through all this?

[Milkmansound]

my 896 (original one) does this sometimes too, and repairing the harddrive with something usually makes it go away for a long time.

however, my harddrive can no longer be repaired (the program says it cant make it past a certain point) so I have to restart when this starts to happen. I think its a computer thing, not the 896 personally.

I should mention that this happens on my mac, and it does not happen all that often - but when it does its horrible.

[Ethan Holdtrue]

well I called motu and they seemed pretty eager to have me send the unit into them after I gave them the SN... I wonder if they have a bad batch of 896hd's floating around?

[Milkmansound]

who knows - but at least you are in Mass so it should not take too long!