Thunderbolt splitter

This is again another Thunderbolt splitter thread, as I haven't found the answer to my specific situation.
I'm working with music production equipment and would need to plug in my firewire soundcard and a fast external hard drive to my MBP, which has only one thunderbolt port. The thunderbolt port is reserved for my external display. Currently I am dasiy chaining the sound card and the external hard drive (firewire), but it seems to be problematic at times.
I don't want to daisy chain these two. Is there or will there be a simple thunderbolt splitter cable, that would just give me two ports instead of one?
I know about the hubs out there, but they all seem to need an external power source, which is something I'd like to avoid.
Thanks!
- K.

No such thing and more then likely never will be. There are some rumored but are Vaporware. Simple fact is IF you have a proper TB device it has a second TB port for daisy chaining devices.
That is other then TB to Ethernet or TB to FW.
IMHO TB will die like FW has. Seems any interface that is an Apple Exclusive at the start always dies off after a few years.
Just take a look at what is offered as TB devices. Drives that start at 300-400 bucks and the Apple display that is a grand.
You can buy USB drives for around $100 and a monitor as good as the Apple TB display for under $500.

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