PreSonus Inspire 1394
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- Online Price: £99.00 GBP (inc VAT)
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- Manufacturer SKU: Inspire Dolphin ID: 7768
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Customer Reviews
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The INSPIRE 1394 is a revolutionary FireWire Recording System featuring professional quality 24-bit/96k analog to digital conversion rate, four simultaneous inputs, software control panel as well as audio recording and production software giving you the smallest, most flexible, most affordable and all-inspiring computer recording studio ever!
What's Inside
The INSPIRE 1394 is loaded with state of the art components and technology enabling the easiest computer recording experience ever. The INSPIRE 1394 installs effortlessly on both Windows XP and Macintosh-based computers and works seamlessly with virtually all popular recording software including Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Cakewalk, Logic, Logic Express, Digital Performer and many others. The microphone and instrument preamplifiers loaded in the INSPIRE 1394 are designed to deliver ultra-low noise, high gain preamplification for all types of microphones and instruments needed for professional quality recordings.
Ins and Outs
The front panel of the INSPIRE 1394 features two custom-designed PreSonus microphone preamplifiers with +48V phantom power and two instrument Hi-Z inputs. The back of the INSPIRE features selectable line or phono (with RIAA filter) inputs great for all types of keyboards, samplers, drum machines and turntables. Outputs on the INSPIRE 1394 include RCA unbalanced and mini TRS jacks as well as headphone output.
Software Control Panel
The INSPIRE 1394 is completely controlled by an easy-to-use software mixer interface called the CONTROL PANEL. Controls include, input gain, phantom power, limiter (off/on), preamp boost (off/on), sample rate, headphone volume, main output volume as well as zero latency input mixing with playback mixing. This software control panel also serves as a mixer between your computer playback and your inputs for zero latency recording. The software control panel also features LOAD, SAVE functionality so that you can save and recall all of your settings from session to sesson.
Daisy Chain for More Inputs
The INSPIRE 1394 is equipped with two FireWire connectors enabling the ability to daisy-chain up to FOUR INSPIRE 1394's together for up to sixteen simultaneous inputs at 24-bit/96k recording rate.
ProPak Software Suite
The INSPIRE 1394 comes complete with the ProPak software suite including Cubase LE recording and production software, Sony's ACID XMC, Discwelder Bronze, Discrete Drums, 25 real-time effects plug-ins and over 3 GB of drum loops and samples giving you a complete and professional music production environment.
Features:
- 24-bit/96k A/D/A sample rate
- Four simultaneous input channels (Any 2 from the front and the Stereo RCA on the rear)
- Two microphone/instrument preamplifiers
- Switchable line input or phono input(with RIAA filter)
- Software Control Panel and zero latency mixer
- Window XP and Macintosh OSX compatible
- FireWire bus-powered or powered externally
- ProPak Software Suite
Video Overview
Specifications:
- 24-bit/96kHz Sampling.
- Full Digital control and recall from the Control Panel.
- Low Latency hardware mixer configured from the Control Panel.
- Mac (Core Audio) and PC (WDM and ASIO 2.0) compliant.
- 2 Microphone/Instument inputs via separate XLR-1/4" TS connectors.
- 2 Line Level (-10dB)/Phono inputs via Stereo RCA connector.
- Stereo Line Level Outputs via Stereo RCA connector or 3.5mm TRS.
- Stereo Headphone Output via 3.5mm TRS.
- Sync Indicator LED.
- 2 IEEE1394 (Firewire) ports at 400Mb/s capable of bus powering the unit.
- Aux power input jack.
- THD+N < 0.008%
- S/N > 95dB
System Requirements:
Windows
- OS: Microsoft Windows XP
- Computer: Windows compatible computer with IEEE 1394 FireWire port.
- CPU/Clock: Pentium, Athlon with 900Mhz or higher (1.5GHz recommended)
- Memory(RAM): 256 MB (512MB recommended)
- For multiple units, the equivalent of a 1.5GHz processor or better and 512MB of RAM or better is highly
recommended. Processing power and RAM affect the ability to use multiple units at low latency.
Macintosh
- OS: MacOS X ver. 10.3.7 or later (Tiger 10.4.2 recommended)
- CPU/Clock: PowerPC G4/800Mhz or higher (G4/Dual 1 GHz recommended)
- Memory(RAM): 256 MB (512MB recommended)
- For multiple units, a G4 1.25GHz processor or better and 512MB of RAM or better is highly recommended. Processing power and RAM affect the ability to use multiple units at low latency.
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- PreSounus Recording Interfaces Now Compatible With Intel-Based Macs - 30 May 2006
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