MOTU Announces the Traveler and I'm annoyed 


MOTU just announced a new portable firewire interface and it looks cool 

I'm a big Mark Of The Unicorn fan, I've got an 828, MIDI Timepiece AV and Express XT. I was considering getting their 828 Mk II to replace the 828 for live work (the increased sampling rates and bit depths in addition to the mixing abilities makes it a very attractive upgrade). I wanted something portable though, it sucks doing a laptop gig and carrying around a rack, kinda gets in the way of portability. So, I bought the Edirol FA-101 instead, which I'm quite happy with... until today. Today, I found out about MOTU's new Traveler firewire interface. It has everything I liked about the 828 mkII while being much smaller. Of course the FA-101 is probably still smaller and it was cheaper. Still, I hate getting that buyers remorse when it is long past too late to do anything about it. It's great seeing the competition in this arena... maybe when I'm ready for a new portable interface, the Traveler mk II will be just coming out. Again, I can easily recommend the FA-101 if you don't want the mixing or ADAT capabilities of the Traveler, but for doing live work you gotta take a look at this box. 

Posted: Wed - November 17, 2004 at 06:51 PM          

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