MOTU 16A 32x34 Thunderbolt/USB4 Audio Interface with AVB Networking

The 16A is a line-level workhorse: sixteen balanced quarter-inch inputs and sixteen balanced, DC-coupled outputs on the rear of a single rack space, all running at up to 192 kHz. Each input takes up to +21 dBu and carries 20 dB of digital gain; each output has 99 dB of digital trim, which makes level-matching a rack of outboard gear a software job rather than a screwdriver job. Two ADAT optical banks add sixteen more channels at base rates, with S/MUX at double rates and TOSLink on bank A.

Connection is by two Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 Type-C ports, class compliant so no driver is required, with round-trip latency around 1.8 ms at 96 kHz. Two Gigabit AVB Ethernet ports move up to 128 channels in and out to other MOTU interfaces or a standards-based AVB network. The onboard mixer with reverb, modeled console EQ, gate and compression runs from a web app served by the hardware, so a laptop, tablet or phone on the same network is the control surface.