Presonus Firestudio Project

[superjetboy21]

PreSonus

There it is. A perfect tool for people that use 8 channel recording. This is essentially a re-vamp of the Firepod, oh I'm sorry Apple, (FP10)......

COOL NEW FEATURES!
XMAX PRES FROM THE FIRESTUDIO
JetPLL Technology for clocking
Phantom powers in groups of 2 not 4......small but cool
METERING ON ALL EIGHT CHANNELS....snap! 1 rack space!!
Internal Power Supply - Another cool option I wish they would incorporate on the Firestudio.

That's all for now. Lemme know what you all think! IMHO, I think Presonus took steps in the right direction on this one. Interested to see what else comes out at AES. Only a couple weeks!

[ricknaqvi]

Rock on superjetboy21...


You beat me to it.....

Just wanted to say that the Firestudio Project is shipping now and will be in stores on Friday.
$499 US MAP.

[superjetboy21]

BUMP!!! People, check this out. It's great....

[Blast9]

Man this sounds just the ticket! been looking into the specs.

Rick says its an all-round step up from the FP10

great feature: 5 no-latency headphone sends!

UK price is gonna be super low too: around £340 to 350 apparently.

Originally Posted by rick naqvi

The Firestudio Project is the 'next generation' model of the Firepod. The inputs and outputs are identical (Eight preamps + SPDIF and MIDI), however there are several big differences:

-Firestudio Project has much better A/D conversion: 114dB dynamic range vs. 109dB in the Firepod.

-Also the Project has a much improved jitter spec (below 20 pico seconds)

-The Project allows you to route 5 no latency mixes out of each of the outputs so that musicians can have separate mixes. The Firepod only allowed for one mix which was in mono.

-The Project has 48v phantom power switches for each pair of preamps whereas the Firepod supplies 48v for four channels at a time

-The Project has a much improved mechanical design- no wobbly knobs, no Firewire jacks sticking out.

-The Project has better metering (three segment LED vs. only one clip LED in the Firepod)

-The Project uses an internal powersupply (three prong computer style power cable). The Firepod uses a line lump (Brick supply with two cables coming out of either side)

-The Project ships with the new version of Cubase LE called LE4.

The only feature that the FP10 has over the Project is the ability to daisy chain multiple units. That is something that we will be adding but is not available today. If you need more than 10 inputs, the Firestudio is based off of the same basic design as the Project and gives you up to 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs.

Hope this helps

[ricknaqvi]

We shipped them to the UK about a week ago. They should be hitting now. If are looking for one in the UK and can't find it, please email Mark Williams, our International guy and he'll hook you up. His email is mtwilliams@presonus.com .

THANKS!

[Blast9]

Thanks Rick... Is this replacing the Firestudio?

If not, what are the differences between the 2 units?

I notice the Firestudio is a coupla hundred more expensive

[ricknaqvi]

Nope, it's not replacing the Firestudio.

The Firestudio has a total of 26 inputs and outputs.

The Firestudio Project has a total of 10 inputs and outputs.

The Firestudio2626 also has the added feature of the MSR Remote which gives you talkback, speaker switching, and Stereo and Surround Speaker Control.

[t1mp]

YAY!

Just got one this weekend and been very pleased. Runs well with my system and gives me good control and clarity. Big ups.

[skygod]

Rick baby-

Seems like a good starter setup at 44.1/48 limited and with better headroom that the firetudio ... What I can never understand about Presonus is why you keep developing/adding new platforms without finishing up the last one and closing that loop.

I read the specs on this and the key is headroom and a smoking starter package, yet the original 24Bit/88 or 96 capable system that had lower channel headroom and a not bad starter software set, was still 24 bit capable via SMUX capable addon modules, yet with limitations on tracking manager being able to see the additional channels.

Hey Presonus .... You're very confusing folks! Its almost like you're dilly dallying around and are unfocused and selling yourselves short for absolutely no reason other than enjoying shooting yourselves in the foot. It's called a self-inflicted wound. Don't worry, you're not exclusive. The US Army has been doing it for years and can't stop themselves. They enjoy the pain lol.

Guys and gals, you've got the engineering team in place and the vision to do it and the customer base that is standing by with baited breath all over the world, So fvvking do it already lol

Here's a clue ... think along the lines of the apogee symphony card that plugs into the laptop's bus directly and get away from firewire and have all your channels from the three or four modules working thru that.

You can call, it the PPC - Presonus Producer Card or something pithy like that and there you have my permission to use that intellectual copyright idea

How about developing a 24 or 32 channel 8x8x8 or 8x8x8x8 24 bit/88.1-96 system, scrap the smux protocol completely, go AES/TDIF exclusive, keep the same 114 db converter headroom and how about a software tracking manager that sees all the channels on the screen, and make it so that the modules are duplex (AD-DA, DA-AD) for tracking then playback, and the same dynamite software package you are offering in megastudio producer already? huh? its not rocket science folks. just do it and you'll have a 4sure winner and be the new big bad mothers of invention on the block

Then who knows .... the bitchy touchy-feeley gearslutz family might elevate Presonus from out of the the $1000 low end gutter into the same class discussion group as those other Jonses (the Rockefellers, Kennedys', Bushs, Clintons, etc....)

Then when you're all billionaires, you can go back and redo the M80 and ACP88 with Burr Browns and Jensen tranny's in'em and make'm musically muchos better.

~skygod~

[shoetime]

I've been trouble shooting for hours so I must ask for some help. I own the presonus fire studio project and use it daily, either recording my bands practices, or for its full potential multi-tracking studio use. Recently, I purchased a waves bundle for my setup, and it came with some un matched vocal comps, and eq's. If I arm the monitor button in Nuendo, I get real time processing from any of my plug ins. I am trying to run the post effect track out of the presonus and back into my board where there is a number of different monitor mix options, enabling the singer to hear his voice, real time, post effect.. My problem is being able to control each output track individually. Does it have something to do with the digital mixer in the presonus software? I see for the outputs they can either be in mixer mode or playback mode, are the outputs in groups? Is the problem in my VST connections? any insight would be more than helpful. thank you.

[NzO]

You could do differents groups with the tracks you want to send out of the Firestudio.

In Nuendo, leave the output of those tracks to your main output, but send them to a groups as well.
Like Group1 (drums, bass), Group2 (Snare, Guitars, Key).
Then select the output you want for your group track, for example G1->out3, G2->out4
You have now your main master (on main) for your speakers, and two groups for your headphones.