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PreSonus Inspire 1394 FireWire Audio Interface

Inspire 1394

FireWire Audio Interface with Two Mic Preamps

Manufactured by: PreSonus  
Item Number: INSPIRE1394
Warranty: 1 Year Manufacturer's Warranty
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PreSonus 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 PreSonus 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 PreSonus 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 PreSonus 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 PreSonus 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 giing you a complete and professional music production environment.

Features

24-bit/96k A/D/A sample rate

PreSonus Inspire 1394 has four simultaneous input channels

Two microphone/instrument preamplifiers

PreSonus Inspire 1394 has 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

Specification

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

PC

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.

Mac

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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