HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NEW YORK - AUGUST 2008: Metric Halo announces the immediate availability of the new "future proof" 24-bit/96kHz Mobile I/O 2882 Expanded multi-channel processor and FireWire interface for recording and mixing in the studio or on the road.
The portable 18-input/20-output
2882 Expanded incorporates the new 2d Card, which provides a nearly six-fold
increase in the DSP power available for processing, routing and mixing in
Metric Halo's world-renowned FireWire audio interfaces.
The 2882 Expanded features eight Mic/Line/Instrument analog inputs, eight
mic preamps with individually switchable phantom power, eight analog outputs
on balanced TRS connectors, 24-bit/96kHz converters on all channels, eight
channels of ADAT I/O (switchable to TOSLINK), and AES-S/PDIF Digital I/O
with selectable SRC. It also includes a headphone amp with front panel
mute/dim, front panel metering, and remote level control on all channels.
Newly added ADAT implementation includes optical S/PDIF support
(independently switchable on both input and output) with asynchronous SRC
for the optical S/PDIF input.
Version 5 of the MIO Driver and MIO Console software, included with the 2882
Expanded, provides direct access to the power of Mobile I/O and the 2d
Processing Architecture. It features a brand-new customizable mixer, as well
as unified control of all the mixing and processing resources of all
connected Mobile I/O Expanded hardware. Metric Halo's exclusive Character
processing, included in the v.5 software, selectively adds fifteen different
flavors of euphonic low-order distortions, found in classic analog devices
to the inputs and mix busses of the system.
The 2882 Expanded also includes a bundle of basic production plug-ins,
including MIOStrip (a full featured channel strip with Gate, Compressor and
six-band EQ), HaloVerb, Mid-Side Decoder, Sample Delay and Dither. The v.5
mixer also provides inserts that greatly simplify and accelerate the process
of adding exceptional +DSP plug-ins to the signal path.
The integrated 2d Processing, based upon new, next-generation DSP, offers
5.5 times the available processing power of the original Metric Halo +DSP
implementation, while a SIMD engine enables an additional doubling in power
for certain operations, such as mixing. The 2882 Expanded is the only unit
in its class with an on-board processing engine that supports fully
instantiable processing, providing full access to Metric Halo's
world-renowned signal processing effects without sacrificing the computer's
processing power or introducing any additional latency in the monitor path.
This one-rack space audio interface, weighing only five pounds and about the
size of a laptop, has the ability to run entirely from any DC power source
(9V-30V), making it truly and completely mobile. Three 2882s may be chained
together for 24 analog tracks of recording with processing on all channels
in just three rack spaces.
MSRP of the 2882 Expanded is $1,895. A +DSP bundle software license, which
adds literally hundreds of plug-ins and processors to the zero-latency 2d
Processing environment, is $699.
Based New York's Hudson Valley, Metric Halo provides the world with
high-resolution metering, analysis, recording and processing solutions with
award-winning software and hardware.
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