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but I changed my focusrite saffire and bought a MOTU TRAVELER!!

Hey man,
why did you change to motu´s traveler.
I´m thinking ´bout buying a traveler, but the siffire pro will come out it will be roughly 200€ cheaper than the motu.
Is it ok to pay so much money for the traveler compared to any other interface with more mic-ins?

Thanx
Elec

my experience with motu = rock solid!

i have an 828mkII and our drummer an UltraLite and we re both very happy. don't use mic-pre's often though, so can't really comment on that.

hi elec!
i changed the saffire because it was a real nightmare (with my ibook), I installed v.2 of drivers but still had many problems "lost communication" using logic and reason.
now maybe many people will say that saffire is good and they have no problems, but that's my story.
now i'm very happy with my traveler and i have not any problem.
very good quality in recording and rock solid drivers.

I am also a very happy Motu customer. I have owned an 828mkII for three years and never had a lick of trouble with it. The thing is bulletproof.

yes good definition "bulletproof"

motu traveler......plug it in, set it up.........forget about it...........

eyeknow wrote:motu traveler......plug it in, set it up.........forget about it...........

but the D/A does sound cheap - not nearly as good as RME, or even the Mackie 400F.

KU wrote:

eyeknow wrote:motu traveler......plug it in, set it up.........forget about it...........

but the D/A does sound cheap - not nearly as good as RME, or even the Mackie 400F.

yeah,my friend was sayin that the converters in motu stuff are all crap.is this really true.he loves his rme though.i have a motu 828 that i will sell you for 250.00.this way i can get the rme

Man, if I was writing about an rme or other then others would be saying "oh, but the motu stuff has a better (insert here)"

I dunno......your probably right. All I know is that the motu ...for whatever reason...sounds allot better than other soundcards I've used.....which may not be saying much.

BTW, the quote is about the ease of use and how you "forget" it's there since it just works.

i just re-joined the ranks of motu users with an ultralite.
it sounds great, good bass.... an 828 was my original, it was rock-solid too...
all the others were crap in comparison for the dough...(edirol fa101, echo cards, digi002, a couple keyboard/interfaces among others).
the rme should sound better, it's a considerably more expensive item...
the motu sounds as good as i could hope for the money, and doubling as a standalone mixer is actually going to be a really useful bonus for me....

That's my thing......the others were too expensive. It's like this....

imac
traveler
....I do have an icontrol
keyboard, and a midi controller
mouse....

that is all my hardware.....that's it.

One plug in, since everything is bus powered........and I'm done

If money was not an object......I'd have gotten an apogee/rosetta

MOTU is not shabby stuff - if it sounded better I would say it was the best stuff out there. The metering and cuemix is great.

I am shopping for an interface and it's truly hard finding something cheaper than the RME that is comparable in performance, features, and most imporantly - SOUND

It has been mentioned here befoe, but the cats at black lion audio in Chicago can do a modification several motu interfaces that improves the analog stages considerably. According to them, motu uses the same converters as apogee and rme—it's the analog stages that keep it from sounding as good.

I had the mod done on my traveler, and I can mos def hear a difference. He now also can upgrade the clock, which really puts the motu interfaces on par with apogee stuff. I'll be getting that one done too as soon as they have an open date.

If you just can't stand the sound of the motu boxes, you may wanna give these guys a look.

thanks for that link,
cool mod.... but it looks like it bumps you up to the price of a new rme,
and probably voids the warranty.
still has me thinking tho...