Introduction - Antelope ZEN TOUR Owner's Manual

2. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing Zen Tour from Antelope Audio.
Producing your own music has become the contemporary equivalent of writing poetry.
Current technologies have made sound recording as easy as grabbing a pen and pouring
your feelings on paper. However, unlike the solitude writing requires, music creation is
usually a shared experience. A simple two or four-channel audio interface is no longer
enough. A cool, creative jam with friends will require at least eight channels, packed in a
portable interface that could easily fit in a backpack.
With Zen Tour we are pushing 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 Hi-Z/Line ins.
Two reamp outs and a Talkback button on the front panel put it in the spotlight of portable
tabletop 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 and the lowest latency levels on the market. In Zen
Tour portability meets studio power like in no other device. No longer will portable interface
stand for a starting point for your career, Antelope turned Zen Tour in a powerful tool for
growing huge in the crazy music business!
The custom FPGA is a rock-solid platform for creating multiple, zero latency mixes and
applying an exciting stack of effects. Forget about buying expensive plug-ins – Zen Tour
offers something better. Get creative with Antelope's brand new hardware-based guitar amp
& cab simulations, recreations of legendary studio gear, the extremely versatile AuraVerb
reverb and our own EQ and compressor. The FPGA effects offer unbeatable authenticity and
audio realism, comparable only to the sound and behavior of legendary hardware gear.
Zen Tour control is now literally at your fingertips via the intuitive touchscreen. The OS X
and Windows compatible software control panel follows Antelope's innovative concept for
networking. You can now manage all Zen Tour features from multiple computers in the same
network. Did we mention iOS and Android mobile apps will allow you to access all Zen Tour
features from your smartphone or tablet?
While other portable interfaces have to choose between giving you a decent amount of I/O
channels or high-end DSP effects Zen Tour is better at both! With the 4 switchable Mic/Line
and 4 Hi-Z/Line ins now come 8 analog outs, digital I/O on ADAT & S/PDIF , two independent
headphone amps and two separate pairs of monitor outs. The FPGA powered Thunderbolt™
and custom USB make the device lightning fast and compatible with any DAW on the
market.
Enjoy working with the new Zen Tour!
All the best,
The Antelope Team
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