motu traveller

hrdvsion · Post by **hrdvsion** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:32 am

i'm just wondering what the latency is on this machine with effects not a direct monitor.

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:39 pm

I would suggest hitting: http://www.motu.com and cheking out the trvelers specs.

I have one and experience little if any latency.

continuous · Post by **continuous** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:15 pm

Did you try doing a search here?

I asked the same question about a week ago... I got some good responses.

For what its worth I went for one, I haven't been able to spend much time with it as it had to go back for a funny switch. Still I'm happy I went for it.
The couple days I was able to use it I was getting about 6-7ms overall latency. I had a bunch of effects loaded, 1.33mhz pbook, 512 RAM, 4200 drive.

I now have a FA-101 for sale.

cheers

hrdvsion · Post by **hrdvsion** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:07 pm

cool thanks very much...i think i'll end up getting one...

blamethesun · Post by **blamethesun** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:06 pm

hey i've heard your music before
it's good

aren't you one of the jonson brothers

hrdvsion · Post by **hrdvsion** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:40 am

heh, yes, i'm nathan jonson
and thanks very much, you are too kind!

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:54 am

I can recommend the Traveler. You can set latency very low, at the expense of higher CPU load.

hrdvsion · Post by **hrdvsion** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:58 pm

hmmm that sounds good or bad depending on how you read it....
how much cpu load?

and how low?
i guess anything is better than my TASCAM US-122, which i can sadly say with 100% certainty, is a piece of shit. it does stuff that's cool with fairly low latency, but for whatever reason tascam hasn't made a driver for it that won't crash windows...apparently it's fine on a mac. literally crashes guaranteed in an hour of using my computer....heh....talk about great stress attacks.....i love playing shows where my computer is constantly crashing....ha!

continuous · Post by **continuous** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:06 pm

Literally "everybody" seems to love the RME stuff. There's some older posts with discussions pertaining to this.

I couldn't make the leap price wise so I went for the Traveler.

hrdvsion · Post by **hrdvsion** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:02 pm

yah seems when i searched for traveller i think i got some posts about their stuff too.....
what's the difference?

also is it powered by firewire too?

continuous · Post by **continuous** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:41 pm

Didn't look into the RME all that much because I knew it was out of my range.

Don't know if it'll help but there's been some more discussion of the Traveler and RME stuff at the Unicorn Nation forum. http://www.unicornation.com/
Some PC users seemed to have to get a PCMCIA Firewire card and that is discussed there also.

cheers

TOBY · Post by **TOBY** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:46 pm

Hey Nathan... I just bought a traveler and it rocks.

Best thing is routing options with the software mixer. I can finally get rid of my old little mixer as I can plug everything (jomox xbase, nord, sh-101, mics, etc) into the traveler and route from the software meaning I can send stuff off as an effect of whatever as I play.

I have a PC so the firewire powering doesn't work but with Mac this is a benefit.

Latency is excellent.

I'm a big fan of your stuff as well as your bro... (he was down here last year and blew me away with his shit, as well as his late night drinking skills!)

When you going to get your arse down here mate, I can hook you up with lots of work!

Calamansi · Post by **Calamansi** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:22 pm

For those who use the Traveler on a PC,

Are you able to use and hear multiple audio sources at a time? For example, can Windows media player be playing simultaneously while messing around with Ableton Live? Can you listen to music from myspace pages and play sets in Live at the same time? Or can only one app use the audio driver at one time(like digidesign protools 001 wavedriver)?

Any help with my critical purchase decision is greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance!

c.

Calamansi · Post by **Calamansi** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:56 pm

bump.