Focusrite Saffire LE

Saffire LE description:

The Focusrite SAFFIRE LE FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE. 4x6 FireWire Interface with 24-bit/96kHz Capabilities and Saffire Plug-ins delivers an intuitive and trouble-free professional recording experience.

The Focusrite SAFFIRE LE is housed within a sleek black and silver casing and mirrors the original Saffire desktop design. Six inputs and eight outputs (including stereo digital I/O) with comprehensive monitoring and I/O control options ensure the recording musician has all that’s needed to navigate through a modern recording session. Focusrite build and sound quality, intelligent front-end design and a one-click GUI solution combine to guarantee an intuitive and trouble-free professional recording experience. Focusrite Saffire LE comes bundled with the a compression, Reverb, Amp modeling and EQ VST/AU plug-ins, available as a suite costing well in excess of Saffire LE in its entirety. Furthermore, Focusrite Saffire LE comes bundled with host of other software titles and comes with 470 megs of royalty-free loops and samples, compiled exclusively for Focusrite, by Loopmasters. As with the original Saffire, input and output levels and latency-free monitoring solutions can all be controlled via the accompanying Focusrite SaffireControl LE software. This stylish application floats comfortably over any recording software, and can shrink in size to suit a number of different recording scenarios. Saffire LE, perfect for recording musicians on a budget.

The main features of the Focusrite SAFFIRE LE include:

• 4x6 FireWire Interface with 24-bit/96kHz Capabilities and Saffire Plug-ins delivers an intuitive and trouble-free professional recording experience
• Ultra-low latency Firewire 400 interface.
• Unprecedented audio and conversion performance for the price
• 24-bit, 96kHz integrated A-D/D-A
• Six inputs; Two Focusrite preamps, two balanced Line I/Ps and SPDIF I/Ps
• Eight Outputs: Six balanced analogue outputs for creating separate headphone/monitor mixes or 5.1 surround monitoring and SPDIF Output
• Suite of saffire le plug-ins; Compression, EQ, Amp modeling and Reverb
• SaffireControl LE – Comprehensive level and monitoring control
• Software/Sample Bundle – Includes BFD Ultralite, GURU demo version, B-Station, and 470 megs of samples, exclusively compiled for Focusrite by Loopmasters.
• MIDI I/O and MIDI Thru
• AC3 and DTS compatibility
• Saffire LE is cross platform with the following minimum requirements, Mac: OS X Panther (10.3.3 or later), G3/800MHz, G4/700MHz, 256MB RAM, PC: XP, Pentium Celeron, or Pentium compatible processor of 900MHz, 256MB RAM
• Saffire LE will work with all ASIO, WDM and Core Audio compatible software, in other words all software apart from Pro Tools. It’s been tested thoroughly with many software packages including Cubase, Logic, Sonar, Ableton Live, Digital Performer, and Propellerheads Reason to name a few
• Powered from Firewire port - 6-pin can supply power. If you only have 4-pin then simply connect up the Mains adapter that’s provided to power the Saffire