I'm looking for any kind of reviews, video or written, and I come up with only reviews for the older Motu Traveler. Anyone here have the mk3 version or seen a review?
Back-story:
I have a M-Audio FW-410 and for the most part, I'm happy with it. I don't have a band so usually I'm not using more than it's limited 2 inputs at a time. And I have retired all my instruments so my regular inputs are my mics and separate (non asio) PC audio out. A lot of my productions lately have been non-scratch (DJ) music.
BUT THEN....
I hooked up with an old-school Hip Hop artist that brang back that Old-School Hip Hop fire, so I reconnected my M-Audio Torq (to laptop) and realized constantly plugging and unplugging my 6 audio lines to my 2 audio line FW410 was getting lame. To make matters worse, he wants to track out his multi-output work done on his MPC and ASR into live....
Heres where it gets fun, I look over at my 'Old keyboards for sale' pile and start staring at my old 21-input EZBus digital mixer wishing the (usb) asio latency on it wasn't so high (think it was close to 40-50ms) and remembered it sounded fine and has ADAT digital ins and outs. But the Digital ins and outs on my FW-410 are only stereo.
So I've been thinking about upgrading and suddenly saw the Motu Traveler-mk3.
Bus powered so I can track-out at his house, ADAT digital ins and outs as well as simultaneous TOS digital ins and outs for my miniDisc, combined gives me something like 30 separate lines to work with. And I'm sure the mic-pre's are probably better than the FW-410. Word clock and the whole shebanga bang!
With the low latency of the regular MOTU units and the ADAT connection of my EZBus, I would be set for life with audio I/O.
IF... the Traveler-mk3 is as good as it sounds.
Is it?
Semes like everyone has them in stock... but not one review!
Motu Traveler-mk3... anybody use one?
Re: Motu Traveler-mk3... anybody use one?
Oh, also I've never used Word-clock, I just assumed that would be the choice for tracking out into Live, is it? Wait, does Live even have word clock?
Re: Motu Traveler-mk3... anybody use one?
Bump, cause I know I've seen a few people here have this unit.
Re: Motu Traveler-mk3... anybody use one?
I have one...and it does the job fine...but then i dont have much to compare it with...its pretty lightweight and feels sturdy enough...i use it bus powered from my macbook pro and no problems there. Needed a 400 to 800 FW cable as mine is the new macbook with only FW800...only complaint for me is that the firewire cable doesnt fit very tightly into the back of the unit so if i want to move it around it tends to slip off......using it through genelec 8040's and sounds gr8...dont use the pre-amps at all so cant comment on that...driver wise its pretty solid, never had any problems...latency wise is all good..i have some external synths running through it and no problems at all there...all in all my needs are pretty well fulfilled and im happy with the hardware...i primarily chose the traveller so i could use it with motu's volta which it does so brilliantly....
Oh one major complaint is that the faceplate on the traveller i got was not as blue as the ones in the pictures
Oh one major complaint is that the faceplate on the traveller i got was not as blue as the ones in the pictures
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Re: Motu Traveler-mk3... anybody use one?
U=I=O, Thanx for the reply... and channelite, thanx for the link, I hadn't come across that forum before, and actually found a thread on there saying that the mic pre-amps are noisy and a few people confirmed... So I guess I'll have to pass or wait to see if it gets corrected. Thanx.