PT9 RME ff800 and motifxs8 spdif @ 88.2 =trouble

[b mcgibney]

Studio specs at bottom of post. FF drivers and firmware are latest iteration. Motif is latest OS as well. Running currently 10.6.3

If I do sessions at 44.1 its stable. Problems occur when I try to run sessions at 88.2 with the motif connected to the ff800 via spdif. If I run the ff800 as clock master the SPDIF light blinks from time to time. If I set the ff800 settings to sync to the spdif the light stays solid but I randomly lose connection between PT9 and the ff800. I have experimented with Audio/midi settings, FF800 settings with no success. I really do not want to revert to using the analog of the the motif as the sound quality difference is marked.

Anyone else in the same situation? Any advice.

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[b mcgibney]

Ok, well since my last post the problem has gotten worse. Now the problem of losing communication between the FF800 happens very often, including when just launching PT 9.03. I am also now on mac os 10.6.7. Now also happens on 44.1

I have followed to the letter all the steps re turning off airport, bluetooth,spotlight, time machine etc. deleted all plists,pref etc.

The problems still seem to be exacerbated when using the spdif out from my motif but that alone will not cause it. I have downloaded all the latest drivers from RME and have also tried reverting back to older drivers i.e 2.62.a right up to 2.93.

Also when I install a new driver the spdif light stays stable for a few minutes then it starts to blink. Sometimes I will also hear "clock noise", kind of a sssh noise.

Finally, when the red light comes on on the ff800 and I open up the fireface settings window they system clock setting shows not 44.1 but 181773 hz?

My research indicates this may actually be a hardware/power supply problem and not a software prob--just to further muddy the waters . Bizzarely enough somtimes after 2hours of "on time: it will become somewhat stable again, which is not my experience of power supply issues


Any thoughts on where to go would be appreciated. As it is right now, I do not want to try to do anything with any other person /group until I can regain some modicum of system stability-----well yes I kind of can ---by reverting back to my 003----lord help me when that is the new standard of stable but truth is it has been, but is even my well used 50+ year old ears can hear a difference between the two units.

BTW I will be cross posting this to the rme forum as I suspect this is more an rme issue---but at this point who knows. I've put many many hours into trying to get this working as solid as it was 6 months ago---I just want it get it fixed.

TIA

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[b mcgibney]

Well it turns out it was a firewire conflict between the mlan and the ff800. That is to say disconnecting the mlan(firewire) from the motif has resulted in 5 days if crash free operation.

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