Any one get M series Motu to work with Maschine Plus?

OhulahanBass
OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor
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I just tried the Motu out on M+, it's a good lil interface and wold have been great for it to be a companion interface to M+. Unfortunately, it doesn't work well. I have updated to the latest firmware on M6 but when using it with Maschine it makes a nasty Digital crunch randomly every minute or so.


Has anyone got a Motu to work with M+?

Any suggestions?

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  • Fugazi81
    Fugazi81 Member Posts: 49 Advisor

    No unfortunately not, I have an Ultralite MK5 here and exactly the same problem. The digital distortion or better said that sounds to me more like a digital bit reduction, also happens there as soon as I connect the MK5 to the M +. It then sounds as if an LFO (sine) modulates the bit reduction. Totally unusable. I have an old Focusrite 18i6 here that runs without problem. The Motu I can unfortunately not use with M +.

  • imagevoice
    imagevoice Member Posts: 23 Member

    M2 works perfectly. M4 and M6 maybe needs extra power?

  • OhulahanBass
    OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor

    It isn’t a power issue, I have the Motu plugged into its own power.

  • OhulahanBass
    OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103349#Comment_103349

    Did you start a ticket with NI CS?

    I just did this morning so hopefully I hear back. I have been loving Persons Quantum for years but was frustrated that I couldn't use for both my M+ and my DAW. I hoped Motu would give me the low latency but also play nice with M+ so I could leave all my instruments plugged into one interface shared between both systems. Hopefully NI can figure this out, I think it may have to do with not being able to choose clock source or anything from Maschine hardware.

  • Fugazi81
    Fugazi81 Member Posts: 49 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103496#Comment_103496

    Hi, no I didn't create a ticket because I had my Focusrite to fall back on. But I will create a ticket. 

    By the way, I also have a suspicion that this is related to the bitrate or sample rate. I hope they can solve this with an update. I bought the Ultralite MK5 specifically for the M+. 

  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 436 Pro
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103720#Comment_103720

    although im not using a Motu interface... its an odd thing, but i was going through a process of getting my audio4c interface to play nice across 2 computers simultaneously.... both a PC & M1 Mac Mini.. it turned out that making the bitrate identical(likewise samplerate) on PC & Mac & interface solved problems i was having,,

    having identical Bitrate's across software & hardware is often overlooked

  • OhulahanBass
    OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103720#Comment_103720

    Yeah the M6 was a bit of a trial, if the M6 works I was going to keep the M6 for travel podcast capture and get an ultralight or 828 for the studio.

  • OhulahanBass
    OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103723#Comment_103723

    As far as I know, on the Motu and every other interface I have used (~10) the bitrates and depths are set on the Computer or device with CPU. Maschine does not give us this option, so I think that may underly the issue, perhaps the motu is defaulting to the wrong rate. That or, there is no master clock being properly communicated between the units, that is another setting that doesn't exist on the M+.

  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 436 Pro
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103796#Comment_103796

    If the maschine+ you are using has a fixed bitrate(unchangeable)... then i would look at making every other bitrate hinge around the fixed bitrate, and you can follow up on testing your hardware units albeit interface

  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 436 Pro
    edited October 29

    looking at the specs of the maschine+

    built in audio interface of 24-bit/96kHz

    also would pay to have the same buffer sizes when following up with your testing

    goodluck!

  • OhulahanBass
    OhulahanBass Member Posts: 116 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103873#Comment_103873

    I don’t think you understood the issue. M+ in standalone doesn’t let you set rate or buffer and also doesn’t even list what is. I assume 44.1k but have no clue what the buffer is set to. M+ in standalone will give a latency calculation but that calculation doesn’t change when switching audio interface to M6 so something fishy is a foot I believe.

    You can change these values if you’re working in Maschine 2.0 using the M+ as an audio interface but in standalone you get what is set and not displayed. So, unfortunately, both M+ and M6 do not allow you to edit their sample rate or buffer or clock source while using M6 with M+ in standalone.


    hopefully support can work something out.

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