My Prism dream came true...but m`y go'i instead of rice for awhile

I was never a fan of Apogee or Digidesign converter. There are...boring! You just almost could never guess what's going to happen to your beloved analog sources once "inject" into them. The one I trust and many of the master engineers love to rely on are the Prism stuffs. Very expensive...but now check this out, the Orpheus is here. Firewire converter and multi out, can you beat that? Price is not announce yet but words on the street is that it will be accessible.
Well read for yourself drool.
rpheus is a FireWire interface for personal recording and sound production, for professional musicians, songwriters, engineers and producers. Orpheus is ideal for music and sound recording, production & monitoring, stem-based mastering and analogue summing.

Orpheus provides Prism Sound's renowned performance and sound quality in a dedicated FireWire unit compatible with Windows XP & Vista and MAC OS X 10.4x (Intel & PPC).

Orpheus has line, microphone and instrument inputs, good foldback and stereo or surround monitoring capabilities, ADAT and SPDIF digital I/O plus support for external MIDI devices. Microphone inputs include MS matrix processing and high-performance digital sampling-rate conversion (SRC) is available for digital inputs or outputs.

Orpheus signal path
Eight analogue input channels and up to 10 digital input channels are available (SPDIF on RCA/coax plus ADAT optical) as DAW inputs through the host's audio driver. Similarly, eight analogue output channels, up to 10 digital output channels and stereo headphone outputs can play 22 different channels. For low-latency foldback or monitoring to headphones or main outputs, each output pair (1-2, 3-4 etc) can be driven with an individual local mix of any selection of inputs through the controller applet. All inputs are electronically balanced with automatic unbalanced operation. Outputs are electronically balanced with 'bootstrapping', i.e. level is maintained if one leg is grounded.


No-compromise, full Prism Sound audio quality
Dedicated FireWire interface
ASIO and WDM drivers provided for Windows XP and VISTA
Directly compatible with CORE AUDIO on Mac OS X 10.4+ (Intel & PPC)
Eight "Prism Sound" AD and DA channels, plus SPDIF, ADAT & headphones
Four high-end integrated mic preamps (typ.-130dBu EIN), switchable phantom
MS Matrix processing on mic inputs
Two instrument inputs
Prism Sound "Overkillers" on every channel to control transient overloads
Fully-floating (isolated) balanced architecture for optimum noise rejection
Mono or stereo input configurations
Outputs arranged as stereo pairs, each with individual mixer
Low-latency "console-quality" 8-bus digital mixer for foldback monitoring
Fader, pan, cut, solo on every mixer channel
Dual headphone outputs each with its own front-panel volume control
Front-panel master volume control, assignable to selected channels
Configurable for stereo, 5.1 or 7.1 or surround monitoring
Built-in sample rate conversion (SRC) on DIO channels
Prism Sound 4-curve SNS noise shaping on digital outputs
State-of-the-art clock generation with proprietary hybrid 2-stage DPLL
MIDI in/out ports


Luke Ehret

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