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Focusrite Saffire £265.00
Description
Saffire is a new breed of Firewire interface with onboard DSP and 24-bit/192kHz processing. Saffire fuses state-of-the-art hardware with highly integrated software to take audio interfacing one giant step closer to the professional studio experience.
Four inputs (two digital) and 10 outputs (two digital) with unrivalled foldback and monitoring options ensure the engineer has all he needs to navigate through a modern recording session. Focusrite build and sound quality, intelligent front-end design and cutting-edge compression, EQ and foldback reverb software combine to guarantee an intuitive and trouble-free recording experience.
The brand new software accompanying the Saffire hardware is a revolutionary new platform from the team that produced LiquidControl and the Forte Suite. This stylish application floats comfortably over any recording software and allows extensive control over the sound of the recorded signals and the multiple (monitor and headphone) output paths.
Compression, reverb, amp modeling and EQ Saffire-powered plug-ins are included. All four are also available as a suite of plug-ins from within the recording platform in use. Up to five separate user-defined stereo mixes can be created of all incoming signals and recorded tracks from the recording platform. With such comprehensive monitoring/foldback options and onboard high quality signal processing and effects, the Saffire is truly the interface of choice for the serious recording engineer.
R.R.P. £299.99
Our Price: £265.00 Inc VAT
Technical Specifications
- MIC
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1 dB
- THD+N: 0.001% (measured at 1kHz with a 20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Noise: EIN > 120dB (measured at 60dB of gain with 150 Ohm termination (20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- LINE
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1dB
- THD+N: 0.001% (measured with 0dBFS input and 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Noise: -88dBu (22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- INSTRUMENT
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1dB
- THD+N: 0.004% (measured with 0dBu input and 20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Noise: -87dBu (20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
- Clock Source: Internal clock or sync to word clock on SPDIF
- A/D Dynamic Range 104dB 'A-weighted'
- D/A Dynamic Range 110dB ?A-weighted'
- Clock Jitter < 250 pico seconds
- Sample rate 44.1 to 192kHz
- WEIGHT and DIMS
- 1.1kg - 6.5cm x 17cm x 17cm
- ANALOGUE INPUTS
- Mic: 2 x XLR on front panel
- Mic Gain: +13dB to + 60dB
- Line: 2 x 1/4" TRS Jack
- Line Gain: -10dB to +36dB
- Instrument: As above, switched to Instrument
- Instrument Gain: +13dB to +60dB
- ANALOGUE OUTPUTS
- Line level 8 x 1/4" TRS Jack
- Nominal output level 0dBFS = 16dBu, electronically balanced
- All outputs are useable as monitoring outputs
- DIGITAL I/O
- 2 x SPDIF (RCA phono) on rear panel (24-bit, 96kHz) Output transformer isolated
- MIDI I/O
- 1 in / 1 out on rear panel
- FIREWIRE S400
- 2 ports
- POWER
- Either via FIREWIRE or external PSU (12v AC, 1.5A)
- HEADPHONE MONITORING
- 2 x 1/4" TRS Jack on front panel (mirrors outputs 5-8)
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS, PERFORMANCE
- Apple Mac
- Operating System
- Mac OS X Panther (10.3.3 or later) - Mac OS update may be required
- Computer
- Apple Mac Power PC G4, G5 or Intel Mac (any)
- CPU/Clock
- G4/800 MHz (minimum)
- G4/1.5GHZ or higher recommended for 192kHz operation
- Memory (RAM)
- 256MB or more
- 512MB or higher recommended
- Windows
- Operating System
- Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (Home, Professional, 64bit XP or Media Centre Edition) or Windows Vista (32bit and 64bit - all versions)
- Computer
- Windows® XP compatible PC
- 400MB/s IEEE1394/FireWire port (OHCI compliant recommended)
- CPU/Clock
- 1.4 GHz Intel or compatible
- 2.0 GHz Pentium© 4 or Xeon recommended for 192kHz operation
- Memory (RAM)
- 256MB or more
- 512MB or higher recommended
- Additional Info
- Firewire chipsets from TI (Texas Instruments), VIA, and NEC are recommended
- It is highly recommended that Saffire be run on its own Firewire bus/card
- In order to use Saffire with a 4-pin IEEE1394 port you will need a 4-pin to 6-pin cable (not included) and must use the PSU (included)
Features
- Ultra-low latency Firewire 400 interface with onboard DSP
- 24-bit, 192kHz integrated A-D/D-A*
- Four inputs; two Focusrite preamps and SPDIF I/O
- Eight balanced outputs for creating separate headphone/monitor mixes or 7.1 surround monitoring
- Suite of Saffire-powered plug-ins; compression, EQ, amp modeling and monitor path reverb available on analogue inputs, for recording wet and or monitoring
- Free accompanying software allows the engineer to create up to five unique stereo mixes of all incoming and recorded tracks
- Plug-ins also available for use within the user's software platform
- MIDI I/O
