Antelope Zen Tour Thunderbolt USB Audio Interface

FITS THE WHOLE BAND

Portable – covering the needs of the whole band

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.

FEATURES

4 MIC/LINE & 4 LINE/HI-Z INS

8 analog outs, 2 headphone and 2 reamp outs, plus an array of digital I/O
Most Mic/Line Channels available on the market

THUNDERBOLT™ & USB

32 channels via Thunderbolt™ and 24 on USB for zero-latency audio streaming

ZERO LATENCY

Guitar amp modeling and effects processing with virtually 0 latency

VINTAGE GUITAR FX

FPGA based hardware models of vintage gear and equalizers, at no cost

NETWORKING CONTROL

Advanced Remote Apps Control Zen Tour from multiple computers or via mobile and desktop apps

STUNNING AD/DA

24-bit, 192 kHz audio and Antelope’s signature flawless conversion

DESCRIPTION

UNBEATABLE AMOUNT OF I/O for a device of that size.

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.

FORGET ABOUT LATENCY

Custom FPGA will allow you to create and stream multiple complex mixes and process audio with zero latency.

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.

PORTABLE GUITAR INTERFACE

Enjoy the true sound of classic guitar amps with Zen Tour’s hardware-based Vintage FX.

Forget about buying expensive DSP plugins.
Zen Tour offers something better.

Get creative with Antelope’s brand new hardware-based FPGA effects. These include guitar amp & cab simulations, lengedary EQ and compressor emulations, plus the extremely versatile AuraVerb reverb.

The FPGA effects offer unbeatable authenticity and realism. They not only sound truly analog, but also feel and behave like real hardware gear.

MORE ON OUR HARDWARE-BASED FPGA EFFECTS

ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY

Have tons of gear hooked in – Zen Tour has quite a few options

Some portable interfaces have to go for either a decent amount of I/O channels or high-end DSP effects.

Zen Tour gives you all:

4 switchable Mic/Line
4 HiZ/Line ins
8 analog outs
digital I/O on ADAT & S/PDIF
two independent headphone amps
two separate pairs of monitor outs.

Plus, the FPGA powered Thunderbolt™ & the custom USB make the Zen Tour lightning fast and compatible with any DAW.

TOUCH & CONTROL

Rediscover your studio workflow with the advanced Zen Tour control options

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, in a future release. So both the producer and the recording artists can control Zen Tour.

Thanks to our innovative networking control concept you can now access all Zen Tour features from multiple computers.
Just make sure they are in the same network.

SPECIFICATIONS

Analog Inputs

4 x Mic / Line Instrument on XLR combos on the back
4 x Hiz / Line on TRS combos on the front

Digital Inputs

2 x ADAT (up to 16)
1 x S/PDIF

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)

Digital Outputs

2 x ADAT
1 x S/PDIF
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed; Data stream up to 480 Mbits/192kHz
24 channels I/O, Type B

Thunderbolt

1 x Thunderbolt, 32 channels

D/A Monitor Converter

Dynamic Range: 129 dB
THD + N: -108 dB

D/A Converter

Dynamic Range: 120 dB
THD + N: -107dB

A/D Converter

Dynamic Range: 120 dB
THD + N: -110 dB

Sample Rates

32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 (kHz)

Mic Pre

Gain: 0 – 65 dB
THD + N: -108 dB

Clocking System

4th Generation Acoustically Focused Clocking
64-bit DDS
Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

Clocking Stability

<+/-0.02 ppm, oven controlled at at 64.5ºC/ 148.1ºF

Clock Aging

< 1 ppm per year

Clock Calibration

<+/-0.001 ppm

Power Supply

DC Universal Input 18V

Power Consumption

25 Watts Max

System requirements

Windows

OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10
Disk Space: Minimum 512 MB available disk space
USB: 1x USB 2.0 Port
Required USB bandwidth: 80%-90%
CPU: Intel or AMD equivalent CPU with at least 2GHz operating frequency
Memory (RAM): 4GB Minimum (8GB or more Recommended)

Additional Info: Internet connection required for product activation.

MAC

OS X: 10.9/10.10/10.11 (El Capitan 10.11.5 Recommended)
Disk Space: Minimum 512 MB available disk space
USB: 1x USB 2.0/3.0 Port
Required USB bandwidth: 80%-90%
Memory(RAM): 4GB Minimum (8GB or more recommended)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (Minimum) Intel Core i3 ™ or higher (Recommended)