PreSonus Releases New FireStudio Driver

PreSonus Audio Electronics is pleased to announce the release of a new FireStudio Driver (ver 3.3) for the award winning FireStudio 26x26 FireWire recording system.

New Features of the new FireStudio Driver:

• Expanded Mix Mode Replaces DAW returns 11-18 with ADAT 2 1-8 for a total of 26 inputs in all 9 stereo mixers.
• 24 Quick route to monitors - Direct routing to Monitors and Phones from the mixer page.
• Auto route to monitors - Auto routes currently selected Mix tab to the user choice of Monitors or Headphones.

• Phase alignment when locking to external clocks has been further improved.
• Improved ASIO performance, particularly on multi-core systems.
• 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs
• ASIO streaming performance on Vista has been improved.
• ASIO clients are now allowed to change the buffer size using the ASIO API, but only if there are no other ASIO clients open.
• Improved support for the WASAPI driver mode in Vista.
• Added support to the ASIO driver's API so that an ASIO host can indicate that it will not attempt to change any parameters and therefore should not affect parameter locking.

• The operation mode settings available on OS X have been updated to match the settings available on Windows. On both platforms there are four modes available: Normal, and Safe Mode Levels 1 to 3.
• Driver Installer modified to install without reboot

The FireStudio also features the optional Monitor Station Remote (MSR) an integrated surround sound/stereo speaker manager, input switcher and communication system delivering fast and efficient workflow for music creation. The MSR connects to the FireStudio via standard Cat 5 Ethernet cable to keep your work space as clean as possible. There are also two headphone outputs on the FireStudio for added convenience.

FireStudio Features:

• High-speed FireWire (IEEE 1394) audio interface
• 24-bit resolution, up to 96K sampling rate
• 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs
• 8 Class A microphone preamps w/ trim control
• 8 analog line Inputs, 2 Instrument Inputs
• 16 channels of optical ADAT I/O (8 ch. via 96k dual SMUX)
• S/PDIF I/O, MIDI I/O
• DICE II Chipset - ultra efficient data transfer
• JetPLL™ jitter elimination technology
• Zero latency DSP full-matrix mixer/router
• PreSonus ProPak Complete Audio Software Suite with Cubase LE, Reason Adapted, Amplitube LE, BFD Lite, Drumagog LE and more

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The new FireStudio drivers are available at: http://presonus.com/technical-support/downloads/drivers-software/

For more information, visit their web site at www.presonus.com.