MOTU Traveler-mk3 - FireWire Audio Interface

As an interface or stand-alone mixer, the Traveler-mk3 provides 28 separate inputs and 30 separate outputs, including 4 combo microphone/instrument analog inputs equipped with pre-amps, individual 48V phantom power switches and Digital Precision Trim controls adjustable from the front panel or CueMix FX software. DSP effects include a 60-second reverb, 7-band parametric EQ and various flavors of compression/limiting.

Compact, fully featured FireWire interface

Microphone, line and digital inputs and outputs are all discrete - no channel sharing

4 combo jacks provide either XLR microphone input or Hi-Z 1/4 guitar input using transparent preamps with phantom power, pad and 53dB of gain per channel

High-resolution recording with the ability to operate all analog inputs and outputs at sample rates of up to 192kHz

16 channels of ADAT Lightpipe, 8 channels of SMUX (96 kHz) or two pairs of stereo TOSLink with the ability to mix and match formats between the two banks

Stereo 24-bit/96kHz AES/EBU and stereo 24-bit/96kHz S/PDIF inputs and outputs

Wordclock in and out

On board CueMix FX is a flexible 28 input/16 bus mixer with on-board DSP effects, including classic reverb with sends/returns, plus modeled EQ and vintage compression on every input and output

Multiple CueMix FX mixes can be created for monitoring or to add send/return loops for external processing with no added latency

CueMix FX software provides real-time FFT and spectrogram waterfall displays for visual analysis of individual signals and entire mixes

Can function in standalone mode

Built-in SMPTE time code sync can resolve to, and generate time code without the need for an additional synchronizer

Front panel volume control for monitoring with stereo, quad, 5.1, 7.1 and user-defined surround monitoring setups available

Front panel meters or activity LEDs for all analog, digital and MIDI I/O, plus SMPTE sync, tach and lock LEDs

Powered via the FireWire bus or using optional battery power packs