Specification

Digidesign 003 Factory Firewire Sound Card

The Digidesign 003 Factory Firewire Sound Card is highly recommended by Inta Audio. With an extensive range of audio and MIDI I/O, high-definition audio resolution, the creativity and speed of industry-standard Pro Tools® software, FireWire connectivity, and a big, comprehensive bundle of powerful software included free, 003™ Factory enables you to attain the same high audio production quality as commercial facilities in your own personal or project studio.

Get powerful hands-on control of your Pro Tools LE™ sessions through its integrated control surface and take advantage of the wealth of I/O to connect and monitor your studio gear. Its portable size gives you the freedom to take a professional Pro Tools system anywhere your creative skills are needed — or inspired. And with over 80 powerful plug-ins, virtual instruments, compatible applications, and artist promotion services included, you have everything you need (and more) to compose, perform, record, edit, mix, and master audio for music and desktop post production projects — with truly professional results.

Digidesign 003 Factory Hardware

003™ is professionally built to feel and act like higher-end mixing consoles, engineered to deliver the stunning clarity of high-definition audio, and durably built to withstand any knocks and bounces it encounters when your creative skills are needed on the road.

Integrated Control Surface

• 8 touch-sensitive motorised faders
• 8 motion-sensitive rotary encoders for pan/send/meter/plug-in control
• Dedicated mute, solo, and select/record arm switches per channel
• 6-character, 2-line LCD display per channel displays track name; pan, send, fader, and plug-in values; and timeline position
• 5-segment LED display for viewing metering and automation mode status
• Easily assign inserts and sends from the control surface
• Dedicated automation controls and LEDs
• Dedicated transport control
• Standalone MIDI Mode functionality
• Jog/Shuttle wheel

Digidesign 003 Factory Wide Range of I/O

• High-speed FireWire connectivity
• 18 simultaneous channels of audio I/O
• 24-bit/96 kHz resolution
• 8 analogue inputs, 8 analogue outputs
• 4 professional mic preamps with individual gain and high-pass filter; 48V phantom power enabled on channel pairs
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O or two channels of S/PDIF optical I/O
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O
• 1 MIDI input, 2 MIDI outputs (16 channels in/32 channels out)
• BNC Word Clock I/O
• Dedicated studio monitor output, plus alternate control room output
• Alternate Source input for external device monitoring
• Dual headphone outputs with individual source and level controls

Digidesign 003 Factory Software

Digidesign® Pro Tools LE® 7 software is the most powerful and easy-to-use application to produce professional-sounding music.

• New in Pro Tools LE 7.3
• Added Features in Pro Tools LE 7.0

Digidesign 003 Factory Features

• Award-winning Pro Tools® recording, editing, and mixing
• 32 simultaneous audio tracks (128 virtual audio tracks), expandable to 48 tracks*
• Fully integrated MIDI sequencing with 256 simultaneous MIDI tracks
• Over 50 processing plug-ins, virtual instruments, and compatible applications
• Support for streaming ReWire applications into Pro Tools
• Unique Beat Detective™ LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool
• Support for the Digidesign Control|24™ and Command|8® control surfaces
• Huge selection of compatible third-party plug-ins and software options
• Works on Windows XP and Mac OS X computers

* Requires optional Music Production Toolkit or DV Toolkit™ 2

Bundled Plugins In Digidesign 003 Factory

In addition to Pro Tools LE® software, all Digidesign® 003™ and Mbox® 2 systems include an unprecedented, comprehensive bundle of valuable software and services.

003 Factory, 003 Rack Factory, and Mbox 2 Pro Factory include over 80 professional plug-ins, incredible virtual instruments, high-quality sound libraries, compatible creative applications, special artist promotion services, and other handy tools. 003 Rack, Mbox 2, Mbox 2 Factory, Mbox 2 Mini, and Mbox 2 Pro include much of the same bundled software and resources, offering over 60 plug-ins, instruments, applications, services, and more.

Many of these outstanding plug-ins have been used on countless professional recordings — and many are exclusive to Pro Tools® systems.

Factory Plug-ins
The Bomb Factory® and Digidesign plug-ins included in the Factory plug-in bundle are considered among the best in the industry, offering intuitive interfaces and delivering outstanding sonic results. This high-end bundle — valued at over $3,000 — comes with all 003 family “Factory” systems.

• Digidesign Bomb Factory BF-3A Classic Compressor
• Digidesign Cosmonaut Voice
• Digidesign D-Fi™ bundle (Lo-Fi™, Sci-Fi™, Recti-Fi™, Vari-Fi™)
• Digidesign JOEMEEK® SC2T Photo Optical Compressor
• Digidesign JOEMEEK VC5T Meequalizer®
• Digidesign® Maxim
• Digidesign Moogerfooger® Analog Delay
• Digidesign Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
• Digidesign SansAmp PSA-1™
• Digidesign Tel-Ray® Variable Delay
• Digidesign Voce® Spin™
• Digidesign Voce Chorus/Vibrato
• iLok USB Smart Key

Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2/Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro

The newly enhanced Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 and premium Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro bundles provide a wealth of professional plug-ins, virtual instruments, compatible applications, and sounds to inspire your creativity and refine your talents. Both bundles also include special artist promotion services to help you make your talents known to the industry and new fans around the world.

Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 comes with 003 Rack, Mbox 2, Mbox 2 Factory, Mbox 2 Mini, and Mbox 2 Pro. The bigger Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro comes with 003 Factory, 003 Rack Factory, and Mbox 2 Pro Factory.

Free Bomb Factory Plug-ins with Digidesign 003 Factory

The Free Bomb Factory plug-ins offer powerful effects and utilities from the makers of some of the very best digital emulations of classic analog processors in the industry. All Pro Tools LE systems include these seven plug-ins.

• Bomb Factory BF76 Compressor
• BF Essential Clip Remover
• BF Essential Correlation Meter
• BF Essential Meter Bridge
• BF Essential Noise Meter
• BF Essential Tuner
• Funk Logic Mastererizer

DigiRack Plug-ins with Digidesign 003 Factory

Bring your mixes alive with the DigiRack™ plug-in collection, which offers a wide variety of professional real-time and file-based effects, signal processors, and studio utilities. All Pro Tools LE systems include these 39 plug-ins.

• 1-Band EQ
• 4-Band EQ
• Chorus
• Click
• Compressor
• D-Verb™
• D-Verb-AS
• DC Offset Removal
• DeEsser
• Delay
• DigiReWire
• Dither
• Duplicate
• Dynamics II
• Dynamics III
• EQ II
• EQ III
• Expander-Gate
• Extra-Long Delay
• Flanger
• Gain
• Gate
• Invert
• Limiter
• Long Delay
• Medium Delay
• Mod Delay II
• Multi-Tap Delay
• Normalize-Gain Change
• Ping-Pong Delay
• Pitch Shift
• POWr Dither
• Reverse-DC Removal
• Signal Generator
• Short Delay
• Slap Delay
• Time Comp-Exp-Pitch Shift
• Time Shift
• Trim

Inta Audio recommends the Digidesign 003 Factory Firewire Sound Card by Digidesign

The Digidesign 003 Factory Firewire Sound Card offers great value for money, features, build quality and reliability.

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