Prism Sound Orpheus and UAD-2 Duo Bundle

Orpheus and UAD-2 Duo Bundle description:

The Orpheus and UAD-2 Duo Bundle includes a Prism Sound Orpheus Multi-Channel FireWire Interface plus UAD-2 Duo PCIe DSP Card with the Mix Essentials plugins and 50 UAD$ Voucher.

Prism Sound Orpheus is a FireWire multi-track audio interface for personal recording and sound production, for professional musicians, songwriters, engineers and producers as well as recording studios, post production facilities and scoring stages.

Prism Sound Orpheus is ideal for music and sound recording, multitracking, overdubbing, stem-based mastering, analogue summing and critical listening applications. Orpheus provides Prism Sound's renowned performance, sound quality and state-of-the-art clock technology in a dedicated FireWire unit compatible with both Windows (XP & Vista, ASIO & WDM) as well as MAC OS X 10.4.11 and later (Intel & PPC). Once configured with a computer, Orpheus can also operate stand-alone using its S/PDIF or AES3 I/O.

Prism Sound Orpheus has line, microphone and instrument inputs, selectable RIAA Equalization for turntables, a built-in premium-quality monitoring mixer for each output providing for performer foldback and surround monitoring, concurrent ADAT and switchable S/PDIF or AES3 digital I/O plus support for outboard MIDI devices.

Microphone inputs include MS matrix processing. High-performance digital sampling-rate conversion (SRC) is available for digital inputs or outputs. Dual headphone outputs are provided each with its own volume control, both monitoring the same headphone feed.

Eight analogue input channels and up to 10 digital input channels are available as inputs for your audio workstation software through the host computer's audio driver. Similarly, eight analogue output channels, up to 10 digital output channels and stereo headphone outputs can play 20 different channels.

For low-latency foldback or monitoring to headphones or main outputs, each output pair (1-2, 3-4 etc or the headphone output) can optionally be driven from the built-in DSP mixer with an individual local mix of any selection of inputs through the controller applet. All analogue inputs are electronically balanced with automatic unbalanced operation. Analogue outputs are electronically balanced with 'bootstrapping', i.e. level is maintained if one leg is grounded.

Prism Sound Orpheus main features include:

• No-compromise, full Prism Sound audio quality
• Dedicated FireWire interface
• ASIO and WDM drivers provided for Windows XP and VISTA
• Directly compatible with CORE AUDIO on Mac OS X 10.4+ (Intel & PPC)
• Eight "Prism Sound" premium-quality AD and DA channels
• Concurrent operation of ADAT and switchable S/PDIF or AES3 ports
• Four high-end integrated mic preamps (typ.-130dBu EIN), switchable phantom
• MS Matrix processing on mic inputs
• Two instrument inputs
• RIAA Equalization on inputs 1 & 2
• Prism Sound "Overkillers" on every analogue channel to control transient overloads
• Fully-floating (isolated) balanced architecture for optimum noise rejection
• Mono or stereo input configurations
• Outputs selectable between workstation bus or Orpheus mixer
• Low-latency "console-quality" digital mixer for foldback monitoring
• Fader, pan, cut, solo on every mixer channel
• Dual headphone outputs each with its own front-panel volume control
• Front-panel master volume control, assignable to selected channels
• Configurable for stereo, 5.1 or 7.1 or surround monitoring
• Built-in sample rate conversion (SRC) on S/PDIF Inputs and Outputs
• Prism Sound 4-curve SNS noise shaping on digital outputs
• State-of-the-art clock generation with proprietary hybrid 2-stage DPLL
• MIDI in/out ports

The Universal Audio UAD-2 Duo PCIe DSP Card offers 5X the power of its predecessor, the massively succesful, legendary UAD1.

Universal Audio UAD-2 Duo enables you to run the best sounding authentic plugin emulations on the most powerful DSP platform available. The UAD-2 delivers all the sound and channel counts of large-format analog consoles plus all the authentic tone of classic outboard FX inside the box. You can Track, Mix and Master to the next power, at sample rates from 44.1 to 192kHz.

The UA Powered Plug-Ins Collection brings the most sonically revered processors form the past 50 years of audio to your computer including vintage equalizers and compressors, superior precision mastering tools, lush reverbs and officially licensed classic hardware emulations from Neve, Roland, SPL and more. The UAD-2 comes with the MixEssentials II Plugin Bundle, valued at $300.

The UAD-2 Duo seamlessly works alongside up to 4 UAD-1s (this means you can keep your old cards as well), but also allows any 4 UAD-2 PCIe DSP accelerator cards to be mixed and matched to conveniently scale the DSP power you want at the price you can afford.

Simply add more cards for additional outboard FX or more mix channels as your needs grow. Pro power-users can now use up to four UAD-2 Quads for the most demanding applications with equivalent potency to 40 UAD-1 cards!

UAD-2 includes an all-new unified Meter and Control Panel for UAD-1 and UAD-2. The new Meter/Control Panel design offers improved status monitoring, easy Quick Plug-Buy and Software Update.

There's also improved rollover help and a new streamlined web shopping experience and completely re-designed UA website with integrated A/V Demos, tutorials, in-depth webzine articles, FAQ's and enhanced support so you can really get the most out of your UAD-2. You can use up to 4 UAD-1’s and 4 UAD-2’s in one system using the same software license.

The LiveTrack mode reduces latency on an active UAD-2 plug-in to the lowest possible amount. This feature is highly useful for monitoring processed audio when recording live performances. In LiveTrack Mode, UAD-2 signal data is transferred and processed “immediately” instead of being buffered, resulting in reduced latency. NOTE: When LiveTrack is active, host CPU loading increases. LiveTrack does not reduce the latency of your Audio Interface.

Each UAD-2 Duo is powered by two Analog Devices 21369 SHARC floating-point DSPs. UAD-2 adds the real magic of analog to your in-the-box mixes using UAi - UA's unique modeling technology.

Universal Audio UAD-2 Duo features include:

• The best sounding plugins on the most powerful DSP platform
• 5X processing power of UAD-1 on a single PCI Express card
• Included plugins: UA1176SE Compressor/Limiter, Pultec EQP-1A equalizer, RealVerb Pro, CS-1 Channel Strip
• $50 UAD voucher included
• VST and AU support, cross platform Mac OS X Leopard/Tiger, Win XP/Vista (NOTE: RTAS support to follow in a future 5.x release)
• Easily Expandable DSP - Use up to 4 UAD-1 & 4 UAD-2 cards in one system
• LiveTrack (low-latency track/monitor mode)
• L.O.D.E (Live Optimizing DSP Engine): Load balancing for multiple cards including the UAD1
• SessionMap (bi-directional UAD-1<>UAD-2 session compatibility & DSP manager)
• Multicore-Aware Drivers
• Control panel now offers improved status monitor, software updates and more
• Flexible SHARC DSP architecture
• 32bit floating point DSP designed for pro audio
• UAD-2 individual plug-in instances per DSP chip vary from 1.5x to 5x that of UAD-1e, with the average session being around 2.5x.