Digidesign 003 Rack+ Factory Includes 003 Rack+ Factory and Pro Tools LE. Ideal for musicians, recording engineers, and producers looking for a professional Pro Tools music recording and production solution that’s more affordable and portable.

Digidesign 003 Rack+ Factory features best-in-class sound quality, eight premium mic preamps, and a wide variety of I/O to connect instruments, MIDI gear, and other analog and digital devices.

Digidesign 003 Rack+ Factory comes with everything you need to compose, record, sequence, edit, mix, master, and promote your music. It includes award-winning Pro Tools software, the most popular and widely-used professional music production application in the world, along with a huge collection of studio-quality sound processing and effects plug-ins, virtual instruments, compatible applications, and sound libraries to get you started creating right away.

Plus, the included Factory collection of professional plug-ins (worth over $3,000 USD just on its own) will help you enhance tracks and achieve impeccable, polished mixes quickly and easily.

Features:

• 18 simultaneous channels of audio I/O
• 24-bit/96 kHz resolution
• 8 professional mic preamps; 48V phantom power on all channels
• 8 analog DI/line inputs (including 1 on the front panel); 8 analog outputs
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O
• 1 MIDI I/O (16 channels in/16 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
• High-speed FireWire connectivity
• 2U rackmountable chassis
• 8 individual input gain controls
• 8 discrete high-pass filter switches
• Individual headphone source and level controls
• Mute switch
• Dynamic Range: 110 dB / 113 dB A-weighted
• THD + N: 0.0007% (-103 dB)
• Supported Sample Rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz
• Maximum Word Length: 24-bit
• S/PDIF: 2-channel optical or RCA jack pair
• Digital Optical: TOSLINK (ADAT, max 48 kHz sample rate)
• Host Connection: Two IEEE-1394a (FireWire) ports (6-pin-to-6-pin FireWire cable included)
• Weight: 11.22 lbs / 5.09 kg

Digidesign is a subsidiary of Avid Technology and their flagship software product is Protools. There are 3 versions of Prot Tools; Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered. Digisdesign also makes a number of products for the Pro Tools platform inclduding several software plug ins. They also manufacture a wide variety of hardware add ons such as audio interfaces, MIDI interfaces, synchronisers and control surfaces.

Digidesign branded products will be phased out during 2010 and in future carry the Avid brand name.