Presonus has new audio interface: Inspire

maxi · Post by **maxi** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:23 pm

more info: http://www.presonus.com/inspire1394.html

maxi · Post by **maxi** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:25 pm

shipping now
I'm in for a new interface, and quite like this one actually

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:29 pm

Looks like a smart and interesting move , ...

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:45 pm

I just saw this. It looks like it is very straight forward. The fact that you can chain up to four together and store all the mixes makes it really attractive for live multi-person set ups. I'll have to go play with one. I'd love to hear from someone who has had a chance to be an early user.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:54 pm

I think they were "inspired" by the appearance of the mac mini.

Cone · Post by **Cone** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:51 pm

icedsushi wrote:I think they were "inspired" by the appearance of the mac mini.

You don't say

And I just got a Lexicon Omega Studio... Guess I'll have to get a PlasticSmith mini Tower to match it.

Wonder if you could stack the mini and the Inspire, and that IOmega external drive. And anything else with the same form factor, of course.

wazzlez · Post by **wazzlez** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:37 pm

Looks good, wonder how it compares to the firepod in terms of quality...

And Cone, how do you like the Lexicon Omega? It seemed pretty impressive by the number of inputs and the price, but how are things like latency and sound quality?

robin · Post by **robin** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:39 am

all i need to know is: is the headphone and stereo pair output separately routable in live?

if so this looks like a nice device.

Cone · Post by **Cone** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:38 am

wazzlez wrote:And Cone, how do you like the Lexicon Omega? It seemed pretty impressive by the number of inputs and the price, but how are things like latency and sound quality?

Based on a week's use, sounds very nice. Actually now that I had a closer look at the Inspire specs, I have no regrets for getting the Omega.

I was seriously going for the Firebox, but the Omega has an extra pair of line inputs plus inserts and separate phantom power for the mic preamps and separate phantom power. USB 1.1 is enough for me, if I ever need to record more than four inputs at the same time, I'll get a FireWire interface.

Overall latency 7.0 ms at 44.1 kHz (3.0 out, 4.0 in), with a buffer size of 128 samples. I was thinking of running the RMAA tests next time I boot up my PC. On the Mac no noticeable noise. The preamps sound great to me (using an Audio-Technica Pro 31 mic).

Works just great with Live 5. Some cons though: no power switch, not bus powered, Lexicon Pantheon Reverb only works with Cubase LE.

montrealbreaks · Post by **montrealbreaks** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:46 am

robin wrote:all i need to know is: is the headphone and stereo pair output separately routable in live?

if so this looks like a nice device.

I second that - can you seperate the headphone out and the RCA outs to two different signals?

That's critical!

dpkni1 · Post by **dpkni1** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:32 am

montrealbreaks wrote:
robin wrote:all i need to know is: is the headphone and stereo pair output separately routable in live?

if so this looks like a nice device.
I second that - can you seperate the headphone out and the RCA outs to two different signals?

That's critical!

>3

can anyone answer this?

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:33 pm

i emailed presonus but had no reply yet.

so looking at the software to control this is does look like the headphone and master out are separately addressable. i also found a german site that suggested you could use the device with Traktor in this manner too.

....and i missed the bit about RIAA pre-amps for recording from a turntable.

if all the above works out i'm very tempted by one of these.

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:52 pm

it looks nice and tidy, but the preamps are better on the firebox, and the inspire has no midi

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:54 pm

::mic-minimal:: wrote:it looks nice and tidy, but the preamps are better on the firebox, and the inspire has no midi

true...and the device looks quite bulky to me.

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:12 pm

Presonus got back to me.

Yep the headphone and main outs are separately accessible

cool...hope it's smaller than it appears now and the UK price is £125 or below