A very portable, flexible, and affordable interface with stunning sound quality!

The PreSonus Inspire 1394 FireWire Audio Interface is a FireWire recording system featuring professional quality 24-bit/96kHz A/D/A conversion for extremely clear, dynamic sound.

The Inspire 1394 gives you four simultaneous inputs. These include two XLR jacks with custom PreSonus preamps and switchable phantom power. The mic and instrument preamps are designed for ultra-low noise, high gain, preamplification of all types of microphones and instruments.

Two Hi-Z 1/4" instrument inputs and two selectable line/phono jacks on the back panel have a switchable RIAA filter, making them perfect for DJs and vinyl owners converting LPs to digital.

Outputs include RCA unbalanced and mini TRS jacks plus a headphone jack.

Up to four Inspire 1394s can be daisy-chained for up to 16 simultaneous inputs.

A software control panel gives you control over all vital parameters including: input gain, phantom power, limiter (off/on), preamp boost (off/on), sample rate, headphone volume, main output volume, and zero-latency input mixing with playback mixing. The software control panel also serves as a mixer between you and your computer playback and your inputs for zero latency recording.

Inspire 1394 FireWire Audio Interface comes with Studio One Artist music creation and production software. It has the same platform and intuitive interface as Studio One Pro and has an unlimited track count.

The PreSonus INSPIRE 1394 works seamlessly with all virtually all popular recording software including Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Cakewalk, Logic, Logic Express, Digital Performer, and many others.

The INSPIRE 1394's powerful hardware and software capabilities combine to offer you one of the smallest, yet powerful computer recording studios ever!

PreSonus Inspire 1394 FireWire Audio Interface Factory Restock Features:

• 24-bit/96kHz A/D/A sample rate
• 4 simultaneous input channels
• 2 microphone/instrument preamplifiers
• Switchable line/phono inputs with RIAA filter
• Up to 4 INSPIRE 1394s can be daisy-chained for up to 16 simultaneous inputs
• Software control panel and zero-latency mixer
• Window XP and Macintosh OSX compatible
• FireWire bus-powered or powered externally
• Studio One Artist included
  
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• Elegant, single-window work environment
• Powerful drag-and-drop functionality
• Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
• Content browser with convenient sort options and preview player
• Automatic delay compensation
• Advanced automation
• 32-bit audio processing
• Easy-to-use sidechain routing
• Stunning virtual instruments
• User-friendly sampler
• Most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available
• Realtime audio timestretching and resampling
• K-System metering
• Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interface
• Works with key commands from Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic.
• Native Effects 32-bit effects library with 20 dynamics processors, reverbs, modulations effects, amp simulators, etc.
• Ampire - Amplifier-Modeling
• Auto Filter - Envelope Filter
• Beat Delay - Tempo-Synchronized Delay
• Binaural Pan - Stereo Panning Effect
• Channel Strip - Dynamics Processing and Equalizer
• Chorus - Mono/Stereo Chorus
• Compressor - Mono/Stereo Variable Compressor
• Flanger - Stereo/Mono Flanger
• Limiter - Mono/Stereo Limiter
• Mixtool - Phase and MS Utility
• MixVerb - Mono/Stereo Reverb
• Phase Meter phase-correlation analysis
• Phaser mono/stereo phaser
• Pro EQ 7-band parametric EQ
• Red Light Distortion distortion processor
• Room Reverb stereo/mono room reverb
• Spectrum Meter frequency analyzer
• Tricomp 3-band compressor
• Tuner instrument tuner
• X-Trem mono/stereo tremolo
• Four virtual instruments
• Impact Sample Trigger Drum Instrument with 32 drum kits by Ueberschall
• Presence Sample Player Virtual Instrument with 200 sampled instruments by Digital Sound Factory
• SampleOne Sampler Virtual Instrument
• Mojito Analog-Modeling Subtractive Synthesizer
• Native Instruments Kore Player with 150 instruments
• Native Instruments Guitar Rig LE
• Toontrack EZdrummer Lite
• Nearly 1,400 drum loops (1.4 GB) by Bandmate Loops

The INSPIRE 1394 will open up creative doors in digital recording for you! Order today.

PreSonus Inspire 1394 FireWire Audio Interface Factory Restock Specifications:

• System Requirements for Studio One Artist
• Mac: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.2 or higher, PowerPC G4 1.25 GHz or Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz processor, 1GB RAM,
• Recommended: PowerPC G5 or better or Intel Core Duo or Intel Xeon processor or better, 2GB or more RAM
• Win: Windows XP or Vista, Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz processor or AMD Athlon 64 (Turion), 1GB RAM
• Recommended: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz EM64T or better or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ or better, 2GB or more RAM
• Windows and Macintosh Systems: Internet connection, DVD-ROM drive, a monitor resolution no lower than 1024x768 pixels

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Great Recording for Those On a Budget

Posted by RiotSk8Team001 from San Jose, CA on May 23, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Progressive Rock/Metal/Fusion

This thing is incredible. The recording quality is perfect and it's very easy to set up. The fact that you can link up to four of these makes it all the better, making a great recording setup for a band. If you have the money (which I'm sure you do, this thing is cheap), I would definitely recommend getting one, two, three, or even four of these. It is definitely a great value.

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Unstable and Noisy

Posted by Vincent from Las Vegas on May 15, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Scoring

I got one of these primarily to record speech audio into a pc. I got this one because I have heard good things about Presonus and this seemed ike a good deal.

Setup was simple and Vista x64 had no problems loading the drivers. At first everything sounded good, but at random times I start getting a lot of static and distortion on the playback and also on any recordings made while this is happening.

I don't know if it is a Vista compatibility issue or if this thing is just cheaply made, but needless to say I will be returning it. I think I will get an Echo Audiofire or Edirol FA-66 instead.

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good for the money!

Posted by Fleazilla from Roanoke VA on May 8, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: home recording,Hobbyist plus some

Reviewer's Play Style: rock alt/electronic/experimental

I bought my new at guitar center and paid 200+ for it. It has been A great recording sound card it does however have issues with Windows as it is not windows signed, which can cause your PC to crash or freeze every now and then. When you lose that perfect track and then loose it again you can get pretty pissed off! That also happens in software crashing but thats A PC write?The ear phone input actually pushed into the card so now I have to use another earphone jack coming threw my amp, Also I have issues with the card not working temperarely but unplugging it then plugging it back in seems to remedy that Now for the good...This card sounds really clean and good quality recording it doesn

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Returned it

Posted by Nate from Los Angeles on Apr 1, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: touring major label signed musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock n roll!

So I installed it & what not and I was super stoked to finally lay down some tracks, but for some odd reason it was ramping up my sound about an octave or two, almost like my computer couldn't handle it. So I returned it and I now use a mobilepreusb and it works like a charm.

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Best For Home Solo Recording

Posted by Landlock Blues from san antonio, TX on Oct 12, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: recording engineer, active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: folk, indie, rock

Ive had this Inspire interface for a release on an upcoming acoustic e.p. i am going to release and this thing is AMAZING!!!! The sound is excellent. No scratching or anything. It sounds professional!! No need to pay all this money for something you can do yourself! its so easy and its great. I do not regret purchasing this product!

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