MOTU 828 mkII?

[federal donut]

In my search for the perfect interface, the MOTU 828 keeps coming up as the best contender. It's a little more then i was planning on spending but I'd rather have something that works then pound my head against the wall. Does anyone have any experience running it on a PC? How about the onboard preamps? Compatibility with other software besides Digital Performer? If I spend all my money on the interface I'm not going to have anything left to invest in new preamps or software for awhile. I've been running cakewalk/sonar for years and have tons of plugs-ins and was wondering if I can run the MOTU stuff on that until I can upgrade to a different program.

Thanks

[lars savage]

I just got one of these, and it seems to be pretty good, although I've had a fair amount of debugging to do to get it to work with OSX. It's firewire only, so beware, because your computer may not support, if it's not a Mac. I think you can get PCI firewire interfaces now, but I'm not certain. However, the included software, Audiodesk, is Mac only, and is the only software I've tried running it with.

[Rick Hunter]

The 828 Mk II can be used with just about every DAW software there is. Its solid and sounds pretty good. Allthough I would have to say that I like the mk 1 a little better. No LCD screen to worry about and much simpler. I think you can get a mk 1 for about $500 bucks used which is a pretty sweet deal.

[foley]

I have the 828, but I use a mac. I actually can't figure out the lcd displays at all, and just control the thing from the computer. I have had zero problems with the machine using OSx 10.2. But, of course, a pc could have problems. If you can get it to work on the pc, I think it is well worth the money just to have the 8 channels of 24/96 through a firewire port. The transfers are pretty good (for my ears).

Happy hunting!

mf