Focusrite announce Saffire Pro 24

Focusrite debuted the Saffire Pro 24 at the London International Music Show last week. The Saffire Pro 24 inherits the sonic pedigree of the larger rack-mounted Saffire Pro range (the Saffire Pro 40 and Liquid-powered Saffire Pro 56) but is packaged in a portable half-rack footprint that can be conveniently bus-powered.

Saffire Pro 24 features 2 Focusrite mic preamps, two additional analogue inputs, six analogue outputs, ADAT inputs stereo SPDIF I/O, and 2 virtual 'loopback' inputs for routing digital audio between software applications. Front panel 5-LED metering for each analogue input offers accurate viewing of levels.

Saffire Mix Control, the zero-latency 18 x 8 DSP Mixer/Router software provided with Saffire PRO 24, features flexible output routing and monitoring, as well as intuitive one-click set-up solutions designed to help you track, monitor and mix as quickly as possible.

A host of bundled software accompanies the interface - the Focusrite Plug-in Suite provides native (AU, VST and RTAS) Compression, Reverb, Gating and EQ. It also includes Ableton Live Lite, Novation's Bass Station soft synth, and over 1 gig of royalty-free samples from Loopmasters and 'Mike the Drummer'.