I read somehwere that Saffire 56 has 3rd generation of Liquid technology, while the Liquidchannel (LC) is 1st or 2nd gen. Liquid-technology consist of software emulation (dynamic convolution) and hardware (capacitance and resistance). The hardware part of the Saffire is less complex than the LC's.
The Saffire has only 10 models (listed on Focusrite website) and only edit option is amount of "harmonics".
Regarding the quality of the Saffire's emulation I already wrote
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In current issue of german magazine "Professional Audio" there is an extensive test of the Saffire 56 including frequency-response diagrams of measurement for the preamp emulations (they did measurements themself - haven't seen this in other magazines yet). They show that the emulations meet the characteristics of the original preamps (e.g. 30KHz peak for the Telefunk V72, slow roll-off above 5KHz for the UA610, ...)
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