qwasar_trinity's Electronic Studio Setup

Shortly, its just a perfect audio card for home user! :) First, pros. Easy to install, easy to setup. This little sister of the Motus more and more expensive professional cards is actually a big MOTU too! The card sound is just incredible: very clean, with fine details, rich, structured and enough powerful! I think it`s just sounds like a more expensive cards. Yes, its already not a regular budget class interface. I compared it with an old, but still very good semi-professional E-mu 1212M PCI card - the MOTU M4 card sounds almost on the same level of the quality, with details and rich timbers (some of tiny differences can be heard listening a high-range HI-FI/professional headphones). Very good preamps, mic recording is really nice with low noise level. You can connect to M4 the consumer powered loudspeakers as a second pair for the testing your mixes. You can insert any line sources: synthesizers, CD/DVD/Tape players, analog amplifiers, etc. Amazing and enough high performance interface - my mid-sized projects in Reaper DAW could be working fine even with 64 samples at 44kHz without the clicks/pops, etc. (tested on Win10 x64 Pro, i7-9700K). It can be setup for work with hardware I/O and virtual I/O as well. I tested M4 in multi-client mode, with game emulators and PC games - all working fine and very nice! Ok. A bit of cons. Some little issues with build quality (wobbling buttons). And It doesnt have any proper mixing/routing software (all are physically), but you just can resolve it easy by installing the VoiceMeeter Banana/Potato, for instance - an excellent applications for you needs here. Yes, the M4 as any professional cards I know, just dont like the hibernation state of the system. But if you dont hear any sound in that case you can just reboot the card with onboard switch on/off. Anyway, it have a very nice quality of the rotary knobs, bright LCD with full color and useful indication for the signal graphic. Even with those a bit wobbling buttons I give it a five stars, because this card` SOUND and possibilities - far higher of the budget-class gear as I mentioned earlier! Bravo, MOTU and thank you! Wow so many letters here... Anyway, thanks for your time =)

UPD. First great feature: loopback (you can easily record voices, system sounds, game, BGM simultaneously. Ideal for video tutorials, streaming, blogging, etc. And the second feature is using M4 as sound mixer/router/adapter. MOTU M4 card just can work without the PC and USB power! I don 't know how it called be correct but this feature allows you using the card as sound "router". For instance, you can use your favourite studio monitors even with the digital TV tuner! Just connect all components and ... don' t switch power on of the card. Only one important thing - in that case you can't able to control the volume with the card. Use the sound source for it. And I noticed strange thing - I got the sound from the digital tuner when it was connected to M4 through the RCA monitor outs (!). I asked about it the MOTU support team and waiting for the answer.