Looking for MOTU Traveller Users Review...

bml · Post by **bml** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:05 pm

Hi,

Anyone using MOTU Traveller Firewire external audio with Live 5.0, could you share your review of this device?

Regards,

kramerica · Post by **kramerica** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:11 pm

It's good.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:16 pm

Rahlo and i used his Traveller for demo's at the Ableton booth at NAMM a couple months ago. There were no issues with the traveller whatsoever. We got very low latency (128 samples) which was imperative for his vocals during the demonstrations.
We crammed 8 hours of demos into 4 days (2 one-hour demos per day), and being that these were demos for folks who were unfamiliar with Live, we put Live (5.0.3 at the time) through its paces and the traveller never fell behind.

You should know that www.blacklionaudio.com does a modifcation for the Traveller. it costs $235.
While the digital componentry in the converters is the same as Apogee and RME, the analog components that go into the filtering that make great converts fantastic is great for the price. But not high-end level (let me reitterate, you probably won't find better for your money) But for $235 more you can bring it up to Apogee level in terms of a/d-d/a conversion, and in the end this is much less than soundcards/converters of this quality. Just something to think about.

I believe Kid Beyond tours with a Traveller as his sole interface as well.

good luck!

LJ Martin · Post by **LJ Martin** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:21 pm

Had mine for a year now, the first one died in three weeks, but I think I pulled the FW cable at the wrong time, no problems with the second though, it is an excellent box.

underhill · Post by **underhill** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:29 pm

Mine is a dream come true. I will be getting the BLA mod now, thanks to the heads-up from AJ. Don't know how I will get by without the traveler while it is being modded though.

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:41 pm

Jack Dangers rocking the Traveller. Might be a good piece of gear?

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:27 pm

As long as you use it with mac......

I originally tried it on windows and it just F&^%$%ED my system up! Then, if dig deep into the faq's, it says don't use it with sp2.

I still had troubles with sp1.............

BUT....with the new macintel I have had zero issues so far.......of course that figures

underhill · Post by **underhill** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:58 am

XP Pro SP2 here, no issues.

blastique · Post by **blastique** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:11 am

yup, no probs using it with sp2 as well, although my first unit died and I'm currently using a temporary replacement while my actual unit is being repaired (the adda's died)

Using the 192 buffer setting at 48khz. 128's ok but I had a tiny glitch once and got a little bit paranoid about it.

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:22 am

are you serious? It totally fried my windows setup.

I wrote to motu and they had this long explanation of why it will never work with sp2

Now I'm confused

I do like it with my macintel though.....

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:25 am

I never had any problems with the Traveler whatsoever. I can recommend Motu in general, as I've had the 828 Mk1 before. My only gripe with the Traveler is that it's actually too big to be really "travel-worthy"

R.

bml · Post by **bml** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:20 pm

Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'm new to Live 5.0 and so far I've used only with my laptop built-in audio device... From what I've seen that MOTU Traveller has mono outputs. My question is, is Live 5.0 able to route a stereo channel to 2 mono outputs in MOTU? Can it route 2 mono inputs to a stere channel?

Regards,

alan* · Post by alan* » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:04 pm

bml wrote:Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'm new to Live 5.0 and so far I've used only with my laptop built-in audio device... From what I've seen that MOTU Traveller has mono outputs. My question is, is Live 5.0 able to route a stereo channel to 2 mono outputs in MOTU? Can it route 2 mono inputs to a stere channel?

Regards,

yes, output's 1+2 are the default main stereo output

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:35 pm

I have been using MOTU products with Windows since 95 came out. Never had an issue and still don't.

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:15 am

a. I don't think your questions are stupid, they are definatly fair questions.

b. I am really sorry that it seems like I hijacked the thread for awhile, I am really happy to hear that some pc users are happy with the traveler.

c. So there is no further confusion, I am currently on a macintel with NO traveler issues of yet.