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More fun than any new email is a new package in the mail. Its been a good week for packages all round, with Jaymis getting excited over his brand new Vixid. As for me, it wasn’t so much a brand new device as an old friend coming back into the fray. Cue up the unveiling of a Motu Ultralite.

The curious thing about the history of this unit was that it arrived DOA unbeknownst to my bandmate and myself some many many moons ago. Given we purchased two units initially and due to my being based interstate at the time, we simply used my bandmate’s unit and were happy to know we had a backup if needed. I had planned on using it for a variety of things, but always made do with the rather suitable recording quality of the Novation X-Station instead. Rather suitable isn’t quite rather awesome though. When we eventually tried to install mine we were surprised and unpleased to find it dead to the world. Cue a walk to the filing cabinet for the warranty card and opening Outlook for the first of a few “Its dead, please fix it” emails. To our surprise the process was pretty smooth and we were looked after well, though the months in between posting and receiving the unit were a little much.

So this is a post of excitement that the Ultralite is back and a tip of the hat to Major Music who were fantastic once all things were considered. They took a peek at it in their Melbourne offices before agreeing that it was indeed mightily borked and sent it off to the USA for a closer look. Presumably for their engineers to marvel at how such a faulty unit made it to Australia in the first place, or perhaps to make their Quality Control officer eat it. I think the former is the logical scenario as I have been sent back a completely new unit which is interestingly housed in my original box and filled with the full retail collection of discs, cables and manuals. A little needless but a cute gesture.

As a final note, this means that right now I’m loading the drivers and getting the Ultralite up and running on the Asus M6R to my left which is about to record a certain synthesiser on my right. I aim to record multisamples of the old Roland SH1000 a colleague has left with me for close to a year this week before I pack the studio up and move. I’ll update how I’m going on this during the week and make as much progress on editing sample packs for Kontakt and the MPC before the big move. I’m also expecting more packages to arrive this week so its certainly looking like it will be The Week Of The Cardboard Box.

PS: The fact that MOTU stands for “Mark of the Unicorn” still makes me laugh. A little.

Tags: Major Music, MOTU, Novation, Ultralite, Warranty, X-Station

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