I have been using my Motif ES with Mlan16e for a while now and it truly does work. I dont have it hooked up to a laptop though. But to a regular pc i put together.
I really like the ES because the Mlan feature gives you like 4 midi ports of 16 midi channels each. Plus all the Digital audio channels. 16 total. So you can send upto 14 individual digital channels to your pc sequencer or total 16 together via channel 15&16. then you can send upto 4 stereo or 8 mono digital channels back to the ES via Mlan. All via one single Firewire cable!
I love it and its working flawlessly for me.



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Peace,

Musikman