Published 17/6/09
Audio Interface
Joining Focusrite’s Saffire range of Firewire audio interfaces is the Pro 24, a half-rack device designed with mobile musicians and home studio users in mind. It has a total of 14 inputs, including two Focusrite mic preamps that can also accept instrument signals, and a single ADAT optical input, which can carry up to eight channels of digital audio. There are eight outputs (six analogue and two digital), a headphones feed with its own dedicated volume knob, plus five-step metering for four of the inputs.
As with the other models in the Saffire range, the Pro 24 ships with a virtual mixer software that enables custom mixes to be set up and signals to be routed between the computer and the different inputs and outputs of the hardware. It also features what Focusrite call a ‘loopback’ input, which can source audio from computer applications such as Firefox, to be routed into DAW software, for example. The unit comes with the Lite version of Ableton Live, as well as numerous sample sets. Check out this video from LIMS 2009 to get a better idea of what it's capable of.
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As with the other models in the Saffire range, the Pro 24 ships with a virtual mixer software that enables custom mixes to be set up and signals to be routed between the computer and the different inputs and outputs of the hardware. It also features what Focusrite call a ‘loopback’ input, which can source audio from computer applications such as Firefox, to be routed into DAW software, for example. The unit comes with the Lite version of Ableton Live, as well as numerous sample sets. Check out this video from LIMS 2009 to get a better idea of what it's capable of.
Focusrite +44 (0)1494 462246
www.focusrite.com
