I have not even risked diving into Lake Asio. All MME. And really, I don't care. If sound gets to my mixer, I'll use MME, ASIO, Bob's, Joe's, Bobby Joe's, Joe Bob's... I don't care which driver. One does nothing different for my application than the other. Just get sound to my Mackie mixer. End of story. And this has zero to do with drivers anyway. This is 100% hardware. Basic troubleshooting says that if the same problem persists with both ASIO and MME, then it is not software. If it worked with one and not the other, maybe, but it fails the same way, at the same time, in the same memory location no matter what driver is selected.

And please follow the thread guys. All is well until I plug in that second MOTU and try to access a 9th output. Or more accurately stated, the 5th pair of outputs. The error returns at the same memory address after a reinstall of the product and the MOTU PCI card (And yes they are the latest drivers from the MOTU site. Give me some credit for knowing computers.) I don't even have to have anything on that 9th track. The presence of that second MOTU box is what does it. I took a song where tracks 1 thru 8 have data and connected just ONE of the MOTU units. It played back fine. Without adding any more data requiring more throughput, I connected the second MOTU, and yes I know to power everything off and restart, and Real Band loads into RAM fine. Then I load the same song. All is still well. The second I hit that play button and data starts streaming though the PCI card, I get an access violation. Now before everybody tells me it is my PCI card like everyone has been saying, memory exceptions occur in the RAM inside the computer, with nothing to do with the PCI card. If my card was bad, it would never work. This PCI card came from a Mac that ran FOUR of these MOTU interfaces. And it ran on both Sonar and Pro Tools. My next step is to load Sonar on that computer and see what happens when I hit play. That won't help me sonically because Sonar won't play Real Band tracks without that awful stuttering and warbling, but it will prove that my hardware is not the issue. No amount of blind loyalty to PG Music will negate the facts, and the fact is that there is a bug involved here. I have over 15 hours of troubleshooting invested here, and it is simply not my hardware. This is quite simply the software's inability to access that 9th output.

Each MOTU interface works when connected as the only one. And I connected both of them to 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4, and 3-4. Every combination. The exact same memory location returned the access violation.

This is THE most frustrating thing I have ever had to troubleshoot since 1982 when I started in computers. And I lived through the maturation process of MSDOS! Anybody else old enough to remember how bad 4.0 was?

So again I ask, is anybody working with anything more than 2 channel left and right outputs? If so, what kind of hardware connection do you use between PC and mixer, and does it happen on any other DAW software? Those are the last 2 questions I need to have answered, then I will be 100% sure it is the program.

And when is that road trip so I know to make more chili?