paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've been running an M-Audio Midisport 8x8 MIDI interface for years now, turned on 24/7. As many people experienced them failing - I left mine turned on, and it's been trouble free - until yesterday where it stops talking to the computer via USB, which is sadly a common fault. I can't seem to find anything to replace it with. M-Audio no longer do the rack mount 8 ch version (I wonder why?) and I can't find much out there apart from the MOTU - but it's too expensive. Anyone got any suggestions - second hand would do, but can't even find one on the usual sites? 4 channels out is not enough, I need at least 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmdh Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've been very happy with the Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 on a Mac - I understand it gets pretty good reviews generally. That's firewire, but the Scarlett 18i20 looks like an almost identical USB version, about to be released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 PM sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've been very happy with the Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 on a Mac - I understand it gets pretty good reviews generally. The Sapphire appears to only have one midi out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmdh Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've been very happy with the Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 on a Mac - I understand it gets pretty good reviews generally. The Sapphire appears to only have one midi out? Oops, I completely misunderstood the requirement. I read the requirement as an 8in 8out audio interface with MIDI. Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 Thanks for the PMs folks - I've responded directly. Peter pointed out that there are some good serial devices out there, but I have a lot of Carillon 19" rackmount computers I use for audio and video, and on the machine I need to look at, the new motherboard doesn't have serial - however, as the machine has a tape transport style panel on the front with real buttons (from an early machine) I tried a serial card and the result was lots of glitching - which I couldn't solve. The later transport panels use midi, but that panel is on the video machine annoyingly. There are a few MOTUs on ebay, but most of those have serial connections too, and just not sensible to try. I suspect the best thing to do is to wait until another M-Audio 8x8 turns up - because Cubase stores interface details with each song, so every song loaded back in needs manual editing of MIDI assignments if I do get something else. Rather a pain really, this one. At the risk of offending readers, I'll just say Thanks Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Paul, It's not worth trying a USB-Serial adaptor is it? That way the serial bit stays 'outside' the computer (unless I've got the idea completely wrong) Just a thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 To be honest, I don't know? Anybody tried these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I use one with my PAT tester - it works is all I can say. Whether it would work with continuous time-critical midi streams is another matter of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 That's what happened on the card serial interface - I'm recording multichannel audio and the old Tascam interface I used (with half the track count as the new system) just played up when the serial interface was used - just tiny glitches, clicks and pops. The system is very stable now, so I'm keen not to mess things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHoward Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I use USB-serial adaptors with old serial programming cables for our radios, no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 Yes - I have one in my van for programming my radio too - but I'm worried about disturbing the audio processing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_cooper Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've not used one of the 8 channel ones but I've seen a 4 channel working OK ESI M8UXL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 Excellent - that gives me at least a couple of option to consider and they are about the same price as the MOTU Express XT USB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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