Originally Posted by David Rick ➡️

I bought a MOTU Ultralite mk5 because I couldn't justify the cost of a RME UCX II for use on stage. It turned out to be unexpectedly great. Good conversion quality, nice-sounding preamps, lots of I/O. Sounds good and tests great. CueMix is not TotalMix but it gets the job done, once you unclick the checkbox that hides most of the channels.

I'm getting very good latency on a Windows-based tablet PC: 128 samples at 96k puts me at roughly 5 ms, which is fine, even for live performance. The main trick is to make all the Windows bloatwear and background processes behave themselves. Process Lasso is the best tool ever for this and you can use it for free if you don't mind a nag screen when rebooting. Also, go into Task Manager and kill any left-over Edge or Chrome browser processes before doing any critical audio work. Modern browsers are terrible resource hogs.

David