Yep, that's why networked audio is going to be the way it's done.  We are actively looking into this, and various options.

In the mean time, look for "Tower" PCs - you will usually have a much better shot having one with PCI slots, or at least full-height PCIe.

Bob

I've been having an interesting few weeks.  My computers to run AMP have been getting longer in the tooth for a while now but being away from home and them seeing little use for the better part of year has seemed to take it's toll.  I've been having lots of little odd failures.  Some I figured out just needed a new CMOS battery.  Fairly simple.  Others just seem to be giving up the ghost, not sure if it's motherboard or power supply, RAM, who knows..  not worth the hassle to figure out for systems from an XP or Vista vintage really.

So I got some new systems (refurbised).  One at Microcenter and two on eBay.  Microcenter didn't have anything with full height slots made by Lenovo.  So I got an HP.  Mistake!  This thing is built like crap.  All was fine while I was getting AMP set up and drivers installed, etc..  Dropped the MOTU 424 card in.  All still good.  Plug in the firewire cable that hooks up the I/O boxes to the 424 card and the machine crashes.  Won't reboot.  Finally figure out that the opening for the slot is very narrow and the firewire cable is touching the sides of the slot.  It must be shorting something out because no matter what I did, the machine would't boot with that cable hooked up.  Remove cable, boots fine.  There was some little metal shield around the slots, tried removing that, no change.  Sum up, this machine is now worthless except at a GUI machine. 

OK, how about the two Lenovos I picked up on eBay.  Open them up....  Oppps!  They only have PCIe card slots.  And I only have one 424 PCIe card, which is in use in a show.  Great.. also worthless. 

Just wasted several hours trying to make something work but I guess I'm going to have to go to the show that is running and swap that PCIe card for a PCI card in that machine so I could drop the PCIe into one of these Lenovos.  And hopefully they will work.

Sorry to vent.  Just frustrated.  And the next solution for audio interfaces, whatever that ends up being, will NOT be reliant on a PCI or PCIe card.  Nope, no more.  I'm done.  All sorts of great little machines out with built in Thunderbolt and/or USB 3.  But few with card slots.  And I'm just not interested in going back to building my own.  Not to mention that now days that costs two to three times more, unlike when I started with computer audio and rolling your own saved you money.

I'm still on the fence about what path I will end up.  But I know I've narrowed one thing down.  No more card slots.  Even if it's Dante, it will be thunderbolt or USB to the host computer.

Save window set only saves the first 8 windows.
On a config with 11 windows it only wrote 8 to the file. If I manually update the file to the 11 windows, it will load them. If I then try to resave it to a new file, it only writes 8 of them.


Motormix controllers.
Have 2 motormix with SAC chip modification, so both on Midi controller 1, channels 1 & 2. Tried both the current motormix config files as well as my previously modified versions so it is not a file issue.
Unit 1 works properly.  Unit 2 has issues.  Amp can set the correct names on the controller.  Solo and mutes work properly. Fader input from controller to host works properly. Fader output from host to controller effects the corresponding channels on the first controller.  This happens in both floating and fixed channel assign modes.

Have you tried closing all the window header bars?

I do use Pro.  When it came out, they said if it was a domain connected machine, it would not force the updates to allow system administrators to coordinate when updates were allowed to be applied.  They got rid of that option at some point.

I do tend to try to find hours when there's nothing going on and let it run and do all of it's updates, but somehow I got bit by it downloading one that it decided not to apply right away, and it managed to do it during a show. I was only connected to my Dante network (so definitely no internet access) and it still decided to just do it and reboot while I was recording.