MARK OF THE UNICORN 896

MOTU 896 released in 2001, a two rack-space 96 kHz FireWire audio interface for Macintosh and Windows personal computers with 8 channels of 24-bit analog I/O, 8 channels of ADAT optical digital I/O, 8 built-in mic pre-amps, AES/EBU digital I/O, word clock sync, and sample-accurate ADAT SYNC

The MOTU 896 released in 2001 - a two rack-space 96 kHz FireWire audio interface for Macintosh and Windows personal computers with 8 channels of 24-bit analog I/O, 8 channels of ADAT optical digital I/O, 8 built-in mic pre-amps, AES/EBU digital I/O, word clock sync, and sample-accurate ADAT SYNC. The 896 front panel provides three banks of 10-segment level meters, 8 trim knobs for the analog inputs, and 8 toggle switches for independent 48-volt phantom power for each analog input. In addition, the 896 provides CueMix Plus no-latency monitoring of live input with separate front-panel volume control over the monitored input signal. The 896 connects to any FireWire-equipped windows PC or Apple Macintosh computer via standard 1394 FireWire. No PCI card or PCMCIA card is required. Up to four 896s can be daisy-chained to a single computer for 72 channels of I/O. The 896 includes a complete set of drivers for compatibility with all major audio software on both computer platforms. Also included is AudioDesk, an audio workstation software package for Macintosh.