Metric Halo LIO8 MK4 Audio Interface (+DSP Included)

A complete, modular, expandable Recording & Mixing Console with world-class converters, a studio full of outboard gear and a professional Atmos capable analog monitor controller.

For over 20 years, Metric Halo sound has been beloved by musicians and audio engineers the world over.

Our 4th generation mkIV analog and converter stages enhance the already world-class design of the LIO-8 to provide you with warm yet detailed, open & musical sound that captures and presents your work in its best light.

Metric Halo Lio8 Mk4 Audio Interface (+Dsp Included) Features

• Monitoring: The mkIV features a full featured multi-source, multi-destination surround capable (up to 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos®) monitor controller with analog gain control and relay hard mutes.
• Mixing: Imagine having a large-format recording and mixing console in a 1RU unit. mkIV is just that — you will not be limited by this mixer.
• MHLink: MHLink provides an ultra-low-latency, ultra-high-bandwidth self configuring audio and data backplane between multiple MH units as well as a native Gigabit Ethernet interface to the computer.
• USB: Every mkIV unit includes a USB Class Audio interface that allows you to connect to any USB Audio host (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 10+, or Linux) without having to install a driver.
• SCP: In an MHLink system, the USB port on each mkIV unit provides our unique “Satellite Computer Port (SCP)” capability. SCP gives you the ability to patch a satellite computer with full routing into the mkIV Mixer. On multiple unit systems, all SCP ports are available simultaneously. Integrate software instruments, sample players, client computers and mobile devices into your system without the need for additional interfaces or complicated clocking setups.
• Loopback: Any channel in the MIO Mixer can be routed to any output, including outputs sent back to the host or to an SCP port. Route audio between apps or computers without any additional software or an additional complex routing model.
• Signal Processing: mkIV features our custom hybrid DSP/FPGA processing system that provides massive amounts of processing and gobs of memory for high-precision fixed point mixing, cross-point interpolation, metering and routing as well as flexible, instantiable floating-point plug-in processing.
• Plug-ins: mkIV bundles over a 100 zero-latency hardware plug-ins, including the entire Metric Halo Production Bundle and the +DSP Bundle, with no additional license fees or complicated licensing tools.
• Control Surface: mk IV allows you to store the full configuration of your multibox MHLink system into non-volatile memory so that the full configuration is automatically restored when the system powers on - without requiring a connection to the computer or MIOConsole.
• Format Conversion: Crosspoint routing and all I/O ports simultaneously active enables you to use the mkIV as a flexible format converter. Boot states allow you to program and set the unit for standalone format conversion
• Boot States: mkIV includes complete tracking DAW that supports Live, Take-based and Overdub recording workflows. Always available and completely integrated with the hardware. It launches instantly as part of MIO Console and it doesn't require any licenses or dongles. 
• Edge Bus: Each mkIV unit includes an open EdgeBus Card slot. The EdgeBus Card slot allows you to expand your system with additional I/O without having to add a new interface.

Whether you are on location, in the studio or the mastering room, the LIO-8 mkIV has what it takes for you to get the job done.

LIO-8 mkIV is built on Metric Halo’s core 3d Technology, so it interoperates seamlessly with all existing MH 3d interfaces.

Since it is amazingly flexible, expandable and future-proof by design, your system always scales to meet your needs.