UK audio engineering manufacturer Focusrite today announced its latest USB 2.0 bus-powered interface, Scarlett 2i4. Designed for Mac and PC, Scarlett 2i4 features a pair of Focusrite’s award-winning mic pres with mic, line and high-impedance instrument inputs. It has precision converters — with up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution — and is capable of a dynamic range… Read More Focusrite Announces Scarlett 2i4 Audio Interface
British audio gear manufacturer Focusrite has debuted a new interface for recording on the iPad. The iTrack Solo is a compact, aluminium-cased 2-channel interface for the iOS platform. The iTrack Solo is a dual-input audio interface designed for recording instruments and vocals via iPad, (or with a Mac or PC computer). The interface is compatible… Read More Focusrite Debuts iTrack Solo iOS Interface
British audio equipment manufacturer Focusrite has launched Forte, its new flagship portable audio interface. Forte pairs Focusrite’s analogue audio circuit design with digital conversion technologies. Forte is a two-input, four-output USB 2.0 audio interface that works with both Mac and PC. It has two remote control mic preamps, as used in Focusrite’s RedNet range of… Read More Focusrite Launches Portable ‘Forte’ Audio Interface
2009 NAMM Show Update: Focusrite introduced its first collection of VST/AU plug-ins, the awesomely titled Focusrite Plug-in Suite. The Focusrite Plug-in Suite offers a high-end collection of EQ, compression, reverb and gating VST/AU plug-ins for tracking and mixing: The Compressor and Gate have been modeled on Focusrite’s hardware devices, using the measurement of Focusrite’s custom optos… Read More Focusrite Plug-in Suite
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Focusrite launched its Guitar FX VST/AU Plug-in suite; the result of a collaboration between Focusrite and Overloud. The Focusrite Guitar FX Suite provides eleven VST/AU plug-ins that Focusrite claims are “sonicaly equal to, or better than any Guitar FX plug-ins on the market.” These include five guitar amp… Read More NAMM: Focusrite Guitar Effects Suite
Got bass? Propellerhead software has announced the 2008 Bassline Battle. Reason 4 are invited to put together the funkiest, illest, baddest bassline and drum beat combinations for a chance to win grand prizes, provided by Propellerhead Software, Focusrite, KRK and Novation. Entering the battle is as easy as 1-2-3: 1. Use the Reason Electric Bass… Read More Got Bass? Propellerhead Announces 2008 Bassline Battle
Liquid Mix HD is a software version of Focusrite’s Liquid Mix desktop dynamic convolution processor, designed specifically for Digidesign’s Pro Tools HD. It runs of the DSP cards of an HD rig, so it takes no power from the user’s host computer. It includes the same selection of EQ and dynamics processing presets, modeled on… Read More Liquid Mix HD Intro
Musikmesse sees the release of Liquid Mix V2.0, a new software release for Liquid Mix, Focusrite’s DSP-powered dynamic convolution mix solution, delivering 32 channels of EQ and Compression simultaneously. The new software release will be available for free to download early in April 2007 and delivers a number of improvements over the original software. The… Read More Musikmesse 2007: Liquid Mix v2.0 Released
Our contact at Focusrite sends word about a massive project to remaster Genesis’ back catalog for surround sound. Nick Davis, right, spent nearly three years remastering the entire Genesis back catalogue in 5.1. Davis started his career as a tape op back in 1983, recording early demos with Tears For Fears for Polygram. He moved… Read More Genesis Back Catalog Remastered in 5.1 Surround Sound
Winter NAMM 2007 saw the unveiling of Focusrite‘s fourth Saffire solution, Saffire PRO 10 i/o. Featuring the same preamps and converters as its larger sibling, Focusrite’s latest Saffire solution once again delivers a level of performance never before seen in its price bracket. Saffire PRO 10 i/o features the same highly integrated i/o and monitoring… Read More Focusrite Unveils The Saffire PRO 10 i/o
