I'm about to spend some $$ on an audio interface, and I want one that PD will work with. Does anyone here use PD with digi002 (or 01)? how about motu828 or 896? any other interfaces that I should think about?

i haven't tested one with Pd yet because i don't have my own, but i've used the m-audio firewire interfaces for other stuff and haven't had any problems. anyone know if these work with Pd? i'm thinking of getting one eventually. for now i have put buying equipment on hold until i move back to the states next summer. doesn't make much sense to accumulate a bunch of stuff and have to ship it or sell it.
--zac

I've got an 828 and it works great. Your really shouldn't have any problems with any interface which has system drivers - and as far as I know the digi ones are the only ones that might not.

is that the old 828 or the MKII?

this weekend i'll be hooking my system up to a motu 828 mkII. i'll try to do some latency tests and see how the 828 works out.

How'd it go?

the motu828mk2 worked really well. i didn't do too much as far is in-out latency, most of what i did was just generating audio or processing recorded audio. the 828 outputted sound to a genelec 5.1 surround system and i was pretty pleased with the results (i used the vbapan~ extern--there was a post about that extern a few months ago on this forum). the one problem i encounted was that i had to connect the motu to my HP notebook with a 6pin to 4pin firewire adaptor and the adaptor was a little 'slippery'. if i bumped the firewire cable, the adaptor would pull out and i would have to restart Pd (and sometimes my whole system.) that was a little nerve-wracking when it came to our peformance. btw....if you want to see the hardware and software involved in this performance, the following link is a schematic diagram of our set up:

[url=http://www.geocities.com/z_fron/schematic.jpg ]http://www.geocities.com/z_fron/schematic.jpg

cheers,
zac