THE ULTRALITE, MOTU’s latest FireWire audio interface, is essentially a cut-down 828MkII in terms of both physical size and connectivity. Aimed at laptop music producers and the mobile musician, it’s a roughly half-rack unit (8.5” wide, 7” deep) built to MOTU’s usual high standard of sturdiness and inspiring as much road confi dence as an aluminium box of electronics ever could. Ironically, though, it’s not actually particularly light – that’s not to say it’s heavy, but I was mildly surprised at the weight of the thing when I fi rst picked it up.