Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP

Focusrite have imroved upon the Pro 24 audio interface with the Pro24 DSP. Using VRM (Virtual Room Modelling) you can now listen to your mix in virtual enviroments to make sure your mix as at its best all directly through your headphones.

 

VRM allows you to choose from 10 pairs of industry standard nearfield and main monitors in an acoustically treated control room. You can select 6 different listening positions within that room; vary your distance from the monitors and move from left to right to check stereo imaging.

Engineers routinely A/B their mixes by burning CDs and taking them into untreated rooms to reference on consumer stereos. VRM eliminates this process by simulating two extra rooms; a large living room and a smaller bedroom. You can choose between a range of speakers including quality hi-fi, computer, cheap stereo and television speakers. As with the control room simulation, you can select between a number of listening positions to check stereo imaging and observe the effects of typical room modes on your mixes.

 

The Pro 24 DSP has all the features of the Pro 24. Main features of the Pro 24 DSP include:

• 16 In / 8 Out FireWire audio interface
• Real- time DSP-powered tracking and mixing solutions
• VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring)
• Two award-winning Focusrite pre-amps
• JetPLL™ jitter elimination technology
• Focusrite Plug-in Suite: Compression, Reverb, Gating and EQ VST/AU plug-ins
• I/O Options; two additional analogue inputs, six analogue outputs, ADAT inputs (for expanding the interface with, for example, Focusrite’s OctoPre), stereo SPDIF I/O and 2 virtual ‘loopback’ inputs.
• Front panel 5-LED metering for each analogue input
• Focusrite’s established Xcite+ bundle: Ableton Live 7 Lite (for all your production, performance and compositional needs), Novation’s Bass Station soft synth and over 1 gig of royalty-free samples from Loopmasters and ‘Mike the Drummer’.