MOTU 4pre

Quality Sound Meets Maximum Convenience!

Portability,
flexibility, and convenient simplicity - MOTU's 4pre hybrid recording
interface gives you all of this and more. Whether you have a
FireWire-equipped Mac laptop or a PC tower with USB ports, recording
with your MOTU 4pre couldn't be easier. Like the name suggests, the 4pre
sports four studio-quality microphone preamplifiers. What's more, each
input features a combo jack, giving you inputs for your mics,
instruments, and line-level sources. And housed in a handy all-metal
half-rack chassis, the MOTU 4pre is ready to go where the music takes
you.



MOTU 4pre Hybrid USB/FireWire Interface at a Glance:


Total modular flexibility
Studio-grade soundFlexible
integrated mix engine


Total modular flexibility



Are you prefer a handy desktop interface, or do you need an on-the-go
solution for mobile recording? Either way, the MOTU 4pre will easily
accommodate your needs. High-speed USB 2.0 lets you connect the 4pre to
any computer out there, and if your laptop has FireWire onboard, then
you can even bus power it for convenient mobile recording. What's more,
the 4pre comes with a complete rackmounting kit, so you can mount it in a
half-width rack, or link it with another half-rack-size MOTU piece and
rackmount them together.



Studio-grade sound



Of course, no audio interface is worth investing in unless it sounds
good. One of the reason Sweetwater stands by MOTU gear is simply this:
the customers who buy their products almost always rave about their
sound. Specifically, the 4pre comes equipped with (as the name suggests)
four of MOTU's top-quality microphone preamplifiers. What's great about
these preamps is that their incredibly clear, with extremely low noise
or distortion. That lets you records anything from vocals to high-gain
guitar amps, and tweak the tone to taste later.



Flexible integrated mix engine



Here's another thing that Sweetwater customers love about MOTU gear. The
CueMix FX mixing software lets you fully tweak the 4pre's 8-bus mix
engine down at the hardware level - way before the signal reaches your
DAW. That's right, we said an 8-bus mix engine. This lets you control
the mix volume independently of the input gain, so you can monitor your
inputs at the right level, without affecting your recording volume.



MOTU 4pre Hybrid USB/FireWire Interface Features:

A great audio interface for desktop and laptop recording rigs


Compact and rugged all-metal chassis fits easily in a backpack, but comes with the hardware you need to rackmount it




4 x ultra-clean and highly transparent microphone preamplifiers let you record without coloring your sound




All
analog inputs are on combo jacks, providing you with the connectivity
you need to record 2 x balanced line-level sources as well as 2 x




hi-Z instrument sources




2 x channels of S/PDIF I/O




2 x independent headphone outputs make collaboration easy




Independent hands-on mixer lets you use the 4pre even without your computer




Connects via USB 2.0 or FireWire 400




CueMix
software lets you control four mixes and 8 buses with simple tabbed
interface (includes tuner, oscilloscope, real-time FFT,




spectrogram waterfall, X-Y phase analysis, and other tools)




Functions as a stand-alone 4-channel mixer, even without a computer




AudioDesk recording software




The MOTU 4pre is an audio interface that fits in any rig!




Specification
Detail


Computer Connection Type
FireWire/USB


Form Factor
Rackmount/Desktop


Simultaneous I/O
6 x 6


A/D Resolution
24-bit/96kHz


Built In DSP/FX
DSP Mixer


Number of Audio Inputs
4


Audio Input Types
2 x XLR/TRS combo, 2 x XLR/TS (DI) combo


Number of Audio Outputs
4


Audio Output Types
4 x TRS


Number of Digital Inputs
2


Digital Input Types
1 x S/PDIF


Number of Digital Outputs
2


Digital Output Types
1 x S/PDIF


Number of Mic Preamps
4


Phantom Power
Yes


MIDI I/O
No MIDI I/O


Clock I/O
No Clock I/O


Bus Powered
Yes (FireWire only)


Rack Units
1/2U


Depth
7"


Width
8.5"


Height
1.75"


Manufacturer Part Number
8460














































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