In(s) and out(s) of the Motu Ultralite Mk3

I recently bought the Motu Ultralite Mk3 and a pair of Yamaha MSP5 Pro speakers, installed the drivers and CueMix using the easy install option on my MacBook Pro running Leopard and noticed that

  1. It installed the windows versions of the software along with the mac versions… so I had .exe files in the Applications folders!
  2. The common input for XLR and phono had only the microphone working with or without CueMix fired up and the phono only when CueMix was NOT fired up!
  3. The multiple outs behaved weirdly… If I sent one channel (in Live) to Main 1-2 and another to 3-4, it would play out of only one pair at a time! None of the muliplte (phono) inputs worked either.

Solution (that worked for me :P )

Remove the installed drivers and software and reinstall, this time I did not select Easy Install and from the Custom menu I selected only the mac specific stuff… Voila, all problems solved!

Well there is one small glitch,

  • Main Out (1-2) channels act as 1 and 2 (:P)
  • Analog Out 1-2 act as 3-4
  • Analog Out 3-4 act as 5-6
  • etc.

This is applicable to Live as well as Reason :)

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