M4 : Early days but performing well.

5 years ago

I spent a lot of time looking for a good affordable USB interface. Most of the reviews I read on other popular brands all mentioned issues with problematic drivers, USB noise and glitches etc. This MOTU M4 hasn't crashed or dropped out on me yet, the drivers went straight in and work with Reaper and Omnisphere. The sound quality is excellent and the drivers are fast and stable giving me low latency for my soft synths without using a lot of processor power. I have a moderate mobile setup using a Microsoft Surface Pro 6 running Windows 10 Pro. This only has one USB socket on it so I've connected the MOTU M4 on it and I've used the MOTU M4 MIDI din sockets to connect my other mobile gear. I suppose I could use a USB hub but I am concerned this migh cause problems. I like the way I have it but I might try a USB hub one day to see what happens. The loopback feature I will be trying next as I like the idea of doing some studio live streams on youtube or facebook and the M4 loopback feature makes it easy to stream the audio to both the internet and M4 outputs at the same time. I highly recommend this interface.

Image MOTU M4

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by MOTU
  • Released in 2019
  • Average price : $274
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