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This means one very cool thing - finally my studio has multiple outputs! At last, I can run individual channels through hardware FX & synths, and at live shows I can separate the backing tracks to give better FOH clarity & control.
Well, in theory, this is what I can do.
Unfortunately my main production environment is my iMac running Windows via Bootcamp. What I have found out after getting the MOTU is this - MOTU products are not supported for use under Bootcamp! It has to do with the firewire port, and despite upgrading all necessary drivers and reading all possible forums I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I simply cannot use my MOTU Ultralite Mk3 under Bootcamp. This was confirmed by MOTU’s tech support when I finally contacted them with my problems. They replied with an abrupt and succinct single sentence: “MOTU products are not supported for use under bootcamp”. Well, fuck, that’s great…
The good news is, the MOTU works perfectly on my VAIO laptop, as well as on the Mac OS partition of my iMac. So what this means is that I am going to have to switch to Mac OS, probably accompanied by a jump to Cubase 5, when I can afford that upgrade. Oh, one other thing you’ll need is a Firewire 400-800 adaptor, given that the MOTO is Firewire 400 only, and the iMac has 800 ports… This was obtained easily enough from an Apple store..
In the meantime however I’ve been testing the MOTU preamps by doing some recordings on an environment that supports it. The recordings are noticeably clearer and more satisfying than my old Tascam US-122 - really a night & day difference there. I’ve also been having fun with running live loop-based jams on my VAIO, using Ableton Live, and routing individual channels through my KP3. This should come in very handy at future Plague Sequence gigs.
I’ve also been getting some serious mileage out of the DSI Mopho, which I’m unfortunately going to have to finally part with next week when I move. Initially I thought it covered much the same ground as my Moog Little Phatty, in that they’re both analogue monosynths, but the DSI has a very different set of functions. It’s sound is very different and much brighter/glassier, but the main difference is in the sequencer/arp. I downloaded the Mopho software editor and this unlocks the yellow box (we’ve nicknamed it the “Bee-Box”) to some amazing tweakability. Hit the Sequencer section for some really crazy possibilities, where you get 4 x 16-step sequencers that can be assigned to different paramaters. If you can’t have fun with this sequencer, chances are you are dead inside. It’s got a very contemporary electro sound, but it’s also a dirty little EBM machine. If it had an analogue overdrive circuit I’d probably have to hook up my reproductive organs and try to make little Bee-Babies with it. The other well-appreciated feature is that it never seems to go out of tune, despite the fact that it’s analogue. I think the Moog Little Phatty is the best synth ever made (and I own an A6), but given that it has no internal tuning reference I have to tune mine before every recording, and sometimes it goes out by 100c. I think I’m going to have to add a Mopho of my own, or a Tetr4, to my “list”…..
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