Can you post a pic of sticker on bottom ?
I would like to see if there is some text that is similar to mine.
Can you post a pic of sticker on bottom ?
I would like to see if there is some text that is similar to mine.
Yeah if you already used your serial it probably doesn't matter much.Thank you for information, but I don't have ability to change my post to delete my sticker picture at this moment :/
I am registred on Motu website, so I guess it doesn't matter ?
Interesting, I ordered from them almost a year ago and already got something newer. Is the copyright date on bottom also something else than "2019-2021" or "2020, 2019"? Maybe "2019" only?Guys, just received my mew M4 from Thomann.de and.... it is v1!!! (One screw per front input, assembled in USA and firmware 1.xxxx)
Something to worry about? Should i return it? What are the compatibility issues if any?
Thank you for the summary. Much appreciated.Yeah if you already used your serial it probably doesn't matter much.
Interesting, I ordered from them almost a year ago and already got something newer. Is the copyright date on bottom also something else than "2019-2021" or "2020, 2019"? Maybe "2019" only?
Rev1 measures very sligtly worse in most aspects compared to newer revisions due to the older chips used. Probably not really something to worry about though, after all rev1 already got praise in the first post of this thread and elsewhere on the Internet.
At least on some systems, rev1 may be capable of lower (=better) latencies than the newer units, as a smaller buffer size can be used without the audio glitching.
For rev1, officially Windows 7 compatible and signed drivers are available. For rev2 and rev3 there is no such thing though the newer drivers seem to work fine in Win7 if you manually install them via device manager ignoring warnings about missing digital signatures (signatures recognized by Win7 anyway). So rev1 is more compatible in that respect.
There's a little workaround in Linux ALSA code which only applies to rev1, a delay of 2 seconds before any audio data is sent after powerup / USB connection. This shouldn't cause other problems than glitchy audio for the first few seconds though if you connect rev1 to a host which isn't aware of this bug/limitation, and it's possible a firmware update may have fixed it anyway.
I don't know if anyone is going to do any firmware mods regardless (perhaps filters could be customized, or a sample rate display could be added to the LCD, or other little things), but they'd be easier to make for rev2 and rev3 because they have an ARM core for the main CPU. Rev1 uses a strange XMOS xCore thing instead, with a weird instruction set and less tools available than there's for ARM. (at least I know I'd rather work with rev2 & rev3 if I attempted to hack the firmware ) So that's a little theoretical benefit of rev2 and rev3.
For me, the most important thing is the bad response that I am getting in front inputs 1-2. I think it's not a fault with my unit and it's something generic from the latest revisions.
Aight, thx! Was asking cuz this is my 1st interface and I thought the Gain noise wouldn’t show in the LCD meters.Same symptom you are taking the gain of the preamplifiers to the maximum. In my opinion this is normal.
Since you are, you could run a loopback measurement to see if it is affected by the same problem that I have mentioned before. With REW it is very simple if you need it I will explain how to do it.Aight, thx! Was asking cuz this is my 1st interface and I thought the Gain noise wouldn’t show in the LCD meters.
Sure! I actually wanted to test the loopback measurement too since I saw that thread. I only have one set of unbalanced cables, so I would appreciate an explanation on how to do it.Since you are, you could run a loopback measurement to see if it is affected by the same problem that I have mentioned before. With REW it is very simple if you need it I will explain how to do it.
aight, I will try to get a balanced cable and test it!it's easy, you need to buy or make a balanced 1/4 TRS jack cable