Portable Thunderbolt and USB audio interface. Current technologies have made sound recording as easy as grabbing a pen and pouring your feelings on paper. So producing your own music has become the contemporary equivalent of writing poetry. Unlike the solitude that writing requires, music creation is usually a shared experience. And a creative jam with friends will require at least eight channels, packed in a portable interface that could easily fit in a backpack. A simple two or four-channel audio interface is no longer enough. With Zen Tour we have pushed the envelope once again. Antelope is offering not just a portable Thunderbolt & USB audio interface, but a pro piece, easily covering the needs of a small band. Zen Tour comes with 4 switchable Mic/Line inputs and 4 more HiZ/Line ins. Two reamp outs and a Talkback button on the front panel put it in the spotlight of portable interfaces. Zen Tour borrows the powerful Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Antelope Audio’s top-selling pro studio devices. This game-changing technology provides the interface with massive parallel processing capabilities, thus the lowest latency levels on the market. Now with the availability of AFX2DAW users can employ the real-time FPGA FX power in their preferred DAW environment allowing them to spend their time focusing not on technicalities and routing but on writing and producing music instead. All of Zen Tour’s features are controllable via its high-resolution touch screen. The portable audio interface can be also managed via the Antelope Audio’s Software Control Panel for OS X and Windows and via Android and iOS mobile apps for smartphones and tablets. So both the producer and the recording artists can control Zen Tour. Specifications: Analog Inputs: 4 x Mic / Line Instrument on XLR combos on the back, 4 x Hiz / Line on TRS on the front, Mic Input Max: 8. 2 dBu, Line Input Max: 20 dBu, Hi-Z Input Max: 20 dBu; D/A Monitor Converter: Dynamic Range: 129 dB, THD + N: -108 dB, D/A Converter: Dynamic Range: 120 dB, THD + N: -107dB; Analog Outputs: 8 x Lines on 1 x DB25 (8 channels), 2 x Stereo Monitor out on TRS (4 channels, only 1 active at a time), 2 x Stereo Headphone out on TRS (4 channels), 2 x ReAmp outs on TRS (2 channels), Monitor Output Max: 20 dBu, Line Output Max: 20 dBu; A/D Converter: Dynamic Range: 124 dB, THD + N: -112 dB, Mic Preamp: Gain: 0 – 65 dB, THD + N: -108 dB, Dimensions: 255 x 166 x 59 mm, Weight: 1. 4 kg