Digidesign 003 Rack Factory + BFD + 8 BIT

003 Rack Factory + BFD + 8 BIT description:

This item is an exclusive store bundle containing: Digidesign 003 Rack Factory, FXpansion BFD Acoustic Drum Module and FREE FXpansion 8 Bit Kit library

With an extensive range of audio and MIDI I/O, high-definition audio resolution, the creativity and speed of industry-standard Pro Tools software, high-speed FireWire connectivity, and a big, comprehensive bundle of powerful software included for free, the Digidesign 003 Rack Factory empowers you to achieve the same professional audio results as commercial facilities in your own personal studio.

Digidesign 003 Rack Factory comes with Pro Tools LE software, supporting Digidesign’s Command|8 and Control|24 control surfaces, giving you optional flexibility of choosing a console companion for hands-on mixing if you don’t want to do it by mouse alone. It also provides individual gain and high-pass filter controls for all of its mic preamps as well as monitoring controls on its front faceplate for easy access.

The Bomb Factory and Digidesign plug-ins included in the Factory plug-in bundle are considered among the best in the industry, offering intuitive interfaces and delivering outstanding sonic results. This high-end bundle — valued at over $3,000 — comes with all 003 family “Factory” systems.

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Digidesign 003 Rack Factory main features include

• High-speed FireWire connectivity
• 18 simultaneous channels of audio I/O
• 24-bit/96 kHz resolution
• 8 analog inputs, 8 analog outputs
• 4 professional mic preamps with individual gain and high-pass filter; 48V phantom power enabled on channel pairs
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O or two channels of S/PDIF optical I/O
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O
• 1 MIDI input, 2 MIDI outputs (16 channels in/32 channels out)
• BNC Word Clock I/O
• Dedicated studio monitor output, plus alternate control room output
• Alternate Source input for external device monitoring
• Dual headphone outputs with individual source and level controls

Pro Tools LE Software main features include:

• Award-winning, industry-standard Pro Tools LE software for composing, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
• 32 simultaneous audio tracks (128 virtual audio tracks), expandable to 48 tracks
• Fully integrated MIDI sequencing with 256 simultaneous MIDI tracks
• Support for streaming ReWire applications
• Beat Detective LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool
• Supports Digidesign Command|8 and Control|24 control surfaces
• Huge selection of compatible third-party plug-ins and software options

FXpansion BFD is a high-quality acoustic drum module. It concentrates on impeccably recorded multi-velocity acoustic drumkits, with some crucial differences to using a general-purpose sampler with sample-CDs, or using pre-recorded acoustic drum loops. See SOS summary review in DV News.

BFD gives you your own drum studio,with complete control of 7 real drum kits plus additional hats, snares and cymbals. Every drum is recorded from eleven different mics positioned around the kit and room so you can mix your drums by blending the mic sources just like in a real studio.

The BFD concept:

• Flexible mixing of multiple microphone placements
• Hyper-detailed kits: up to 46 velocity layers and a wide selection of hit types, all recorded simultaneously through eleven microphones
• Easy compilation of new kits without wrestling with time-consuming editing and combination of sampler programs, or having to load multiple whole kits
• A versatile automated drummer in the Groove Librarian
• Endlessly variable sound and feel

All this and more is provided in an intuitive, highly integrated interface, plugged into the heart of your favourite sequencing environment, via the VSTi, DXi, RTAS, AudioUnit and ReWire interfaces. A standalone version is also supplied, which uses the ASIO and CoreAudio protocols.

The FXpansion BFD 8-Bit Kit is a discontinued add-on pack for the BFD software drum module system, offering lo-fi flavours to your drum productions. This old-skool collection of drums, cymbals, hi-hats, percussion and electronics features dozens of unique, vintage, handmade and exotic kit pieces, all captured by a strange and wonderful array of microphones. The 8 Bit Kit expansion also includes original recordings made directly from selected vintage analog drum machines of the 70s and 80s. To further extend BFD’s versatility, these can be layered with acoustic sounds from the original BFD or XFL pack to create rich, hybrid kicks and snares – a popular production trick of today.

Both FXpansion software titles do not include the external cardboard boxes - they are the environmentally friendly versions. However, BFD is a full version including manual.

The system requirements for the FXpansion software titles featured in this offer are:

• PC: 1GHz Pentium III or Athlon (Windows)
• Apple PowerMac G4 1GHz, or G5 (Mac OS X)
• 768 MB of RAM (preferably 1024 MB or more)
• DVD drive
• Windows 2000 or XP or Mac OS X 2.7 or above
• 22GB of free hard disk space (less if partial install)