Marian MARC 8 Midi

Great value 8 in/8 out 24-bit/96kHz PC Audio Card with MIDI

Plug into the future of Desktop Music and Sound. Now, recording digital audio with 24-bit/96kHz resolution is no longer the exclusive domain of high-end pro studios. The MARC family of Pro Audio cards set a new standard for digital audio performance at these amazingly affordable prices. All of the MARC range of Pro Audio Cards give the sonic clarity and audio headroom required for the most demanding recording sessions so don't limit yourself to transitional, 20-bit technology -- get ready today for the future of high-resolution audio and DVD with 24-bit recording.

The MARC 8 Midi is a fully featured 8 Channel 24-bit/96kHz PCI audio card with 2 MIDI Input/Outputs giving an all-in-one high fidelity solution for a wide variety of music and audio applications including: SONAR, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic Audio, Cool Edit Pro , Sound Forge, Wavelab, Samplitude, GigaStudio, Reason, Live and many more.

The MARC 8 Midi has 8 channels of 24-bit/96kHz Analogue I/O on RCA jacks, and 2 MIDI I/O's providing connectivity to a whole world of analogue and MIDI devices

All the MARC cards have multi-client drivers with extremely low latencies (down to 2 ms at 96kHz) with ASIO, GSIF and DirectSound, making them especially suitable for time critical applications, such as Soft synth and Samplers like GigaStudio, Reason, Halion etc.

MARC 8 Midi hardware is ready for the next generation ASIO-IN-HARDWARE feature. This will enable direct access to the cards memory giving even better performance using any ASIO recording software including Cubase, Cubase SX, Wavelab 4, Nuendo, Ableton Live etc. This feature will be available fully functional with future driver updates.

Features

• 8 in, 8 out 24-bit/96kHz full-duplex (simultaneous record and playback) audio interface on a half-size PCI card
• 8 analogue input and outputs via breakout cable with RCA jacks
• Record and playback at up to 24-bit/96 kHz on all inputs and outputs
• Zero Latency Monitoring
• 2 MIDI Input/Output ports giving 32 MIDI channels
• Internal connection for Digital CD Input
• Sync up to any 4 MARC cards (MARC 8 Midi, MARC 4, MARC 8 etc) to a single sample clock for more I/Os and flexibility
• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, GSIF (GigaSampler format for low-latency sampling), DirectSound and ASIO 2 drivers
• Next generation ASIO-IN-HARDWARE
• Includes Samplitude Project 5.9 multi-track hard disk recording software

Technical Specifications

Analogue Ports

• 24-bit
• 96kHz : Sample Rates 11 kHz - 96 kHz
• Breakout cable with RCA jacks
• Output with low impedance (can also be used for connecting headphones)
• A-D convertors - 24-bit 64x oversampling
• D-A convertors - 24-bit 128x oversampling
• Signal-to-noise ratio approx. 96 dB
• THD+N: 0.005%.
• Frequency response: 44.1 kHz: 20 Hz to 20.000 Hz
• Frequency response: 96 kHz: 20 Hz upto 40.000 Hz
• Input signal level can be adjusted between -40 dB and +18 dB.
• Output level can be reduced to -60 dB.

MIDI

• 2 input ports and 2 output ports (32 channels in and out) on standard MIDI jacks (breakout cable is supplied with card)

Drivers

• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, GSIF (GigaSampler/Studio format for low-latency sampling), DirectSound and ASIO 2 drivers

System Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000, ME, or XP
• Pentium III 500Mhz - (96kHz operation)
  Pentium II 400 - (48kHz operation)
• 128 MB of PC100 RAM - (96kHz operation)
  64 MB of SDRAM - (48kHz operation)
• UDMA EIDE or ATA 33/66 HDD
• Other requirements are dependant upon the software you are using. Please refer to the respective manual.