MOTU 8D - 8X8 USB / AVB-TSN audio interface with AES3 and SPDIF

MOTU 8D Product Overview

Flexibly route, monitor, link, and apply effects to digital audio with ease using MOTU’s 8D. The device acts as an interface, router, splitter, mixer, and converter in one, giving you numerous and multi-faceted connections for feeding digital audio into and out of your host computer, as well as across AVB/TSN infrastructures.

The device features a USB 2.0 connection—class compliant and compatible with both USB 3.0 connections and iOS—as well as AES-EBU connections via XLR, S/PDIF I/O via RCA, and up to 32 channels of AVB-TSN I/O by means of an Ethernet CAT5e connection. In total, 210 simultaneous channels of I/O are achievable, while a headphone output, located on the front panel and sporting its own volume control, provides the ability to monitor any stereo source of your choice.

All AES-EBU and S/PDIF channels sport the ability to convert sample rates to facilitate a more hassle-free transfer of digital audio, achieving this conversion even if the 8D is not resolved with its connected devices. Indeed, this unit can operate as part of a larger ecosystem of MOTU devices, all linking over an AVB-TSN and controllable wirelessly over Wi-Fi. For this express purpose, the MOTU Pro Audio Control web app has been created, working across platforms to provide seamless integration, manipulation, and coordination of digital audio. Any network you set up in such a fashion will function with ultra-low latency, even whilst handling hundreds of channels over long cable runs.

Also, included with the 8D is a 32-bit, floating-point DSP engine. This engine provides a routing matrix with 48 channels and 12 stereo busses, as well as effects modelled on several prized pieces of hardware, audio analysis tools, and the AudioDesk DAW for Mac and Windows platforms.