MOTU M4 4-stars Reviews

Flawless sound and build quality, awful screen.

A lot of people complained about issues on Windows, on 11 edition I have encountered no problems whatsoever. Pretty good device, but the screen angles are awful. If you have to rely on interface's meters I do not recommend MOTU. Build and sound quality are flawless.

Glitches in Audio

For studio use its amazing, however, in some situations the interface delivers glitchy sound to the computer when other devices are connected via USB (such as a USB microphone or webcam). Seems to be a driver issue. Has ruined a few livestreams and made it difficult to use the device with Discord. So be careful and test for driver issues before hosting anything that matters.

Great quality and easy to use

Essential to recordvanything into youvDAWcand this little box feels, and looks quality,?with the accurate volume colour meter on the front it looks classy and sounds great, with easy operation and things like monitoring sounds that are input is just a buttonpush away from monitoring the souns theough thw m4’s output channels, so for listening to what you are recording,or just being ablwct hear yourseld playing, oe in my case MIDI then this is for you

Swapped out NI for MOTU

As the title says, I had the NI interface previously but wanted more features (more ins)

This is as good in sound quality, but not reliability.

Sometimes the unit (out of the blue) delays the input/output signal by about a second.

Input will occasionally be unavailable for no apparent reason.

(unit must be powered down to rectify, most days in the studio)

The input gains are too sensitive (for guitar) and too close to the inputs

My MOTU is up to date on drivers/software, as it my mac.

I wouldn't use it live, it could prove a liability.

UPDATE late 2020 onwards

Now very stable, all previous problems resolved, again the usual case of the end user being the beta tester for a newly release product. Have to say I would now recommend it