Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 Firewire Interface with 8 Preamps
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Description
Product Description
Leading the way in multi-channel firewire audio interfaces, the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 was designed specifically geared towards today’s project studio. Built with the award-winning Focusrite pre-amps for low noise and distortion, the Saffire Pro 40 produces the best quality results. With a range of i/o options and the Focusrite Plug-In Suite, the Saffire Pro 40 will make everything you record sound better and clearer.
Product Features
- 24-bit/96kHz interface with 20 inputs and 20 outputs
- 8 of Focusrite’s award-winning pre-amps
- Comes with Focusrite Compression, Reverb, Gating and EQ VST/AU plug-ins
- Two independent headphone buses
- Zero-latency 18x16 DSP mixer
- Incredible interface flexibility
Specifications
Product Specification
| MICROPHONE INPUTS | ||
| Dynamic Range (A-Weighted) | 109dB | |
| SNR (A-weighted) | -109dB | |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1 dB | |
| THD+N | 0.001% (measured at 1kHz with a 20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) | |
| Noise | EIN > 125dB (128dB analogue to digital) (measured at 60dB of gain with 150 Ohm termination (20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) | |
| Maximum level (A-weighted) | 8dBu at 1% | |
| LINE INPUTS | ||
| Dynamic Range (A-Weighted) | 109dB | |
| SNR (A-weighted) | -109dB | |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1dB | |
| THD+N | < 0.001% (measured with 0dBFS input and 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) | |
| Noise | -90dBu (22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) | |
| Maximum level (A-weighted) | 28.5dBu at 1% | |
| INSTRUMENT INPUTS | ||
| Frequency Response | 20Hz-20KHz +/- 0.1dB | |
| Maximum Input Level min gain no pad | +8dBu | |
| Maximum Input Level max gain no pad | -42dBu | |
| THD+N, -1dBFS, min gain, no pad | < 0.0015% | |
| SNR | 109dB "A" | |
| DNR | 109dB "A" | |
| Input Impedance | > 1MOhm | |
| X-talk | < -100dB | |
| Adjustable Gain | > 50dB | |
| Pad Attenuation | 10dB | |
| HEADPHONE OUTPUTS | ||
| Frequency Response | 20Hz-20KHz +/- 0.1dB | |
| SNR | 109dB "A" | |
| DNR | 109dB "A" | |
| Maximum Output into 32R | +12.4dBu (+10.2dBV) | |
| Power into 32R | 250mW | |
| Output Impedance | < 7Ohms | |
| Load Impedance | > 24Ohms | |
| LINE LEVEL OUTPUTS | ||
| Dynamic Range (A-Weighted) | 108dB | |
| SNR (A-weighted) | -108dB | |
| THD+N | < 0.001% (measured with 0dBFS input and 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter) | |
| Maximum level (A-weighted) | 15.7dBu at 0.883% | |
| ADDITIONAL CONVERSION PERFORMANCE | ||
| Clock jitter | < 250 picoseconds | |
| THD+N AMPL (A-weighted) | -109dBFS | |
| OPERATING SYSTEMS | ||
| Windows | Windows XP, Service Pack 2 and above only; Windows XP - 64bit, Service Pack 2 and above only; Windows Vista; Windows Vista - 64bit; Windows 7, from version 2.0 of Saffire Mix Control, Windows 7 is fully supported without the need to downgrade to the Windows Legacy FireWire driver; Windows 7 - 64bit, from version 2.0 of Saffire Mix Control, Windows 7 is fully supported without the need to downgrade to the Windows Legacy FireWire driver | |
| MAC | Mac 10.4, 10.4.11 is supported on version 1.8 of Saffire Mix Control only; Mac 10.5; Mac 10.6, from version 2.0 of Saffire Mix Control, both the 32 and 64 bit kernels of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) are fully supported; NOT Compatible with Mac 10.3 | |
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