The world's first Thunderbolt^™ audio interface with 8 pritine mic preamp, 48 channel mixing and AVB audio networking

The MOTU 8M is designed for studio recording, installed sound, and live sound reinforcement applications such as mixing a band in a club or music venue. The 1U 19" rackmountable device features eight balanced combination microphone/line/instrument inputs with individually switchable +48V phantom power and pads, v-limiting circuitry to prevent clipping, 8 analog outs, one front panel stereo headphone output with gain control, 2 x 8-channel ADAT optical, and RCA S/PDIF (with sample rate conversion). Additional I/O can be added to the system through AVB networking.

Audio Quality
Provides 123 dB dynamic range and a THD+N of -110 dB (0.0003%) at -1 dBFS, un-weighted, 1 kHz

Universal Connectivity
Connects to computer with Thunderbolt or high-speed USB 2.0 (compatible with USB 3.0) with class-compliant firmware and industry standard drivers to work with any audio software

On-Board DSP With Mixing And Effects
Provides flexible 48 input digital mixer modeled after large format mixing consoles with 12 stereo busses and DSP effects including reverb, 4-band EQ, gate, and compression

32-Bit Floating Point Processing
Provides ample headroom for mixing and effects DSP

Modeled Vintage Effects Processing
Provides classic reverb, compression modeled after historic LA-2A compressor, and EQ modeled after analog console EQs

System Expansion and Audio Networking
Allows you to add a 2nd MOTU AVB interface (1248, 8M, or 16A) with a Cat-5e or Cat-6 Ethernet cable and up to five devices using a MOTU AVB Switch (sold separately). Multiple interfaces can be networked together with over 100 meter cable runs to stream audio between devices and computers on the network.

Matrix Routing and Splitting
Provides flexible digital matrix routing and splitting for any analog or digital input, computer channel or network stream to any computer, output, or network devices. A single input can be split to multiple output destinations

256 Channels of Network Audio I/O To Host Computer
Allows monitoring and recording of up to 128 network audio channels in and 128 network channels out through a Thunderbolt connection to a host computer

Web App Control
Controls on-board DSP, mixing, device settings, and network audio routing from web app software running in a web browser on a computer, laptop, tablet, or Smartphone connected by a wire or Wi-Fi to your local area network

Standalone Mixing With Wireless Control
Allows you to connect an Apple Airport or other Wi-Fi router directly to the audio interface with a standard Ethernet cable and control the device's mixing and DSP effects from a smartphone or tablet, without a computer such as in live sound mixing applications

ADAT Digital I/O
Allows connection of outboard digital processors, digital mixers or other gear, 16 channels at 44.1/48 kHz or 8 channels at 88.2/96 kHz

Comprehensive MeteringFeatures large backlit 324 x 24 LCD that allows you to view all signal activity at a glance with detailed metering of analog and digital I/O, as well as access to hardware settings from font panel GUI.