Am I The Only One?

vudwinkle · Post by **vudwinkle** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:34 am

I'm loving my M3 for a lot of reasons. But I am dissapointed by the noise immiting from the machine. Mine sounds like a high pitched chirping or like computer hash from a bad (cheap) sound card. It is very obvious when recording soft passages of music. I searched the forums for m3 noise but found no discussion about this. Am i the only one with a noisy M3?

Thanks,

Dave

Voltan · Post by **Voltan** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:07 am

how do you connect your m3 to your recording device?

vudwinkle · Post by **vudwinkle** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:28 am

how do you connect your m3 to your recording device?

M3 l/r into Onyx 1640. Sub outs to MOTU 1224 interface. It's the M3 producing the noise. Maybe something is wrong with this unit.

Dave

burningbusch · Post by **burningbusch** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:49 am

The noise is related to the USB connection. It is very common among keyboards with USB. Try using MIDI only and see if that doesn't clear it up.

Busch.

vudwinkle · Post by **vudwinkle** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:21 am

Thanks for the response Busch. I'll try this tomorrow. Looking forward to the firewire interface....that will be awesome.

Dave

dorremifasol · Post by **dorremifasol** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:34 am

Why don't you record and post an audio file so we can check that noise?

GregC · Post by **GregC** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:25 pm

the source of the noise might be other electronic devices- your wireless Airport, monitor, PC, TV , cable box etc

The M3 might be picking up the noise from them

vudwinkle · Post by **vudwinkle** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:07 pm

Burningbusch had it right! Indeed the USB cable was inducing horrible amounts of hash. I unplug the USB cable and the keyboard is silent.....well almost:)

Thanks guys for your help!

Dave

cfurlin · Post by **cfurlin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:39 pm

vudwinkle wrote:Burningbusch had it right! Indeed the USB cable was inducing horrible amounts of hash. I unplug the USB cable and the keyboard is silent.....well almost:)

Thanks guys for your help!

Dave

*sigh* just one more reason for me to add to my huge list of why I don't have any computers in my studio