motu's and laptop recording

[condor]

Hey now: I mainly do live recording of gigs. Mostly a mic, sometimes board, but I always Betty", MIC AND SBD. Considering a Travellor LOVE battery powered option, BUT can the 828 mlkII record to hard drive, says hard disc, are they the same. Therefore I can record using the MOTU and leave the computer at home. But the delemma, 828 not bat powered, and the travellor has 4 phantom powered pre-amp ins. I could get all the crowd mics into my computer, but memory!! Is there a batt external hard drive out there???


Spent the money once, so you dont have to spend again to suite needs down the road...and patience...

 

[Craigory]

There are only a few differences between the two units.
828mkii has 2 preamps and the Traveler has four.
828mkii can only record up to 96k sample rate while the Traveler can record 196k sample rate
The 828mkii needs to be pluged in and the Traveler can be buss powered.

BOTH need a computer to RECORD audio.
Both can act as a stand alone mixer.

The Traveler also has a AES digital out and in.

 

[dgatwood]

Hey now: I mainly do live recording of gigs. Mostly a mic, sometimes board, but I always Betty", MIC AND SBD. Considering a Travellor LOVE battery powered option, BUT can the 828 mlkII record to hard drive, says hard disc, are they the same. Therefore I can record using the MOTU and leave the computer at home. But the delemma, 828 not bat powered, and the travellor has 4 phantom powered pre-amp ins. I could get all the crowd mics into my computer, but memory!! Is there a batt external hard drive out there???

Buy a bigger internal hard drive. It isn't a good idea to try to use a laptop's limited bus power to power a hard drive and an audio interface simultaneously, IMHO.

However, if you must do so, plug in the hard drive first, wait for it to fully spin up, -then- plug in the audio interface. Set your power management appropriately so that the external hard drive never spins down, as the spin-up current on external hard drives can be problematic, particularly when running on battery power.

I've had enough problems with a certain 60 GB hard drive in a cheap bus-powered case deciding it wasn't going to work once the battery got below about 40% charge that I probably wouldn't trust a bus-powered hard drive in the field for any mission-critical work unless I had a wall outlet nearby. That said, if you do, make sure you test the system thoroughly under low battery conditions to make sure you don't get bitten by similar problems.

 

[condor]

thanks for info

just looking and dreaming. turned onto a sound devices 722. seems to have ALL that i'm looking for. Kinda pricy but!! u get what u pay for. Looked at the m-audio microtracker, looked good until I priced flashes. At about a grand for 8gb to do what was it?? 4hrs 24bit48 I DON"T THINK SO....shall Keep my Sharp md-mt20, and an old stereo studio real to real mic. Anybody know when I can get more. Mine has amazing sound for the 20 bucks I paid in 2000....Kinda off topic, but my md is 24bit altrac. Is there a uncompressor to unloss it and when uploading, if I choose 24bit, not 16 what sample rate...