Ok, I guess I'm in the market for an RME. Appreciate everyone's help!!
Cheers!
Keith

joyof60
Finally gonna scrap my octacapture, fed up with the crashes and lack of Roland support. Any suggestions on a cakewalk compatable interface with 4 to 8 inputs with decent pre's? I don't mind spending a dollar for value. Running Windows 10, SPlat, with need for midi and HiZ inputs. Any suggestions are appreciated.

 
Not sure what the problem is with the computer and Windows 10, but is isn't the Octa- Capture.
 
I have the Octa-Capture and it's been rock solid with Sonar up to Platinum 2016.12 release.  I had one series of crashes with with Sonar and Windows 10 and that was due to a Sonar pre-release.  After installing the newer formal release, my problem was solved.
 
What specific problems are you having with the Octa-Capture and Sonar with Windows 10? Are you using your Windows 10 computer with Sonar as the dedicated DAW or do you have other software installed besides Sonar and Plugins.  
 
Do you have a link you can paste describing the problem that you've posted to the forums.
 
Explain what you've been going through if you don't mind.  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Not sure what I have changed but suddenly my Octa-capture is once again rock solid.
 
I made a lot of changes during my month or tow of hell.....i allowed all the latest win10 updates, I stopped a ton of background applications, I have the latest Sonar updates, and I deleted and rebuild my aud.ini file.  I do not know what one thing fixed it or if it was a combination, but I had a friend over the weekend and we worked for hours without a glitch.
 
Fingers still crossed.
 
If I was to get a new interface I would probably go RME, seems to be a lot of good press about that unit.
 
Jeff
 

New UAD Apollo (Twin) series coming up. 
Also have a look at that Motu 624.
If your Octacapture goes kaputt. 

See this and prepare to have your mind blown:
 
https://youtu.be/JcCjfEjNZdY
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Mind not blown, but it's certainly impressive what $2,000 can get you.  
I love his PC solution. HDIM to a PCIe card. Now that's creative thinking. 
He didn't mention if this changes the RTL performance, but we will assume it doesn't
0.7ms RTL @ 96Mhz. 
certainly the way things will go and it's about time things improved. Audio interfaces have stagnated. 
I'll look forward to a 2 Channel version that might be more affordable. 
 

Eddie TX
See this and prepare to have your mind blown:
 
https://youtu.be/JcCjfEjNZdY
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Not mind blown here, either

To me it resembles another version of the emperor's new clothes... Slate seems to be a brilliant salesman but to me this is too virtual ... virtually everything is virtual, and starting from mics this adds up to too much of it for my liking...

As regards latency he's not telling the full truth. There are other companies which offer super low latency via usb3.1/thunderbolt on windows (e.g. MOTU) whether they can go as low his claimed 0.7ms @96kHz I can't tell but in the price bracket Slate is playing, he has got some serious competition... if MOTU was to add a PCIe to AVB lan card, they would duplicate his system ...

As regards latency once more he's not telling the truth again because all these emulation that he needs on top of his base line mics will eat CPU ... and soon the user will have to crank up some buffer this increasing latency ...

As regards chaining devices Slate goes for Thunderbolt where cables are short and expensive while the rest of the world goes LAN (AVB or Dante) where cables are cheap and often already installed ...

As regards his base line mics plus emu philosophy ... well, go and ask Roland uses who got burnt with products that only work with one brand (me included) who will tell you to stay clear from anything that cannot be used with another system ... think long term support... think selling this later... nightmare

This video was interesting to watch. But I'm out ... it's up to you if you go all in

Not being impressed with a video demo is one thing. Warning about a bunch of imagined flaws is something else. No independent reviewer has yet reported about how the product performs, so why not wait until then to bash it?
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Audient ASP880 - enough said....

Eddie TX
Not being impressed with a video demo is one thing. Warning about a bunch of imagined flaws is something else. No independent reviewer has yet reported about how the product performs, so why not wait until then to bash it?
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

not bashing just speaking my mind ;-)
 
and why wait for the magazines who live off the ads from these companies to review it ... old enough to make up my mind, brave enough to stand an argument ...