DIGIDESIGN 003 RACK+ FACTORY

Record the entire band in your home/project studio, garage, or even live! Digidesign® 003® Rack+ Factory is ideal for musicians, recording engineers, and producers looking for a professional Pro Tools® music recording and production solution that’s more affordable and portable.

With best-in-class sound quality, eight premium mic preamps, and a wide variety of I/O to connect instruments, MIDI gear, and other analog and digital devices, 003 Rack+ Factory works with your computer, providing the power and capacity to record an entire band, vocal or instrument ensemble, or completely mic’d up drum kit — all at once.

003 Rack+ Factory comes with everything you need to compose, record, sequence, edit, mix, master, and promote your music. It includes award-winning Pro Tools software, the most popular and widely-used professional music production application in the world, along with a huge collection of studio-quality sound processing and effects plug-ins, virtual instruments, compatible applications, and sound libraries to get you started creating right away. Plus, the included Factory collection of professional plug-ins (worth over $3,000 USD just on its own) will help you enhance tracks and achieve impeccable, polished mixes quickly and easily.

003 Rack+ Factory also includes over $3,000 worth of additional professional plug-ins, plus an iLok USB Smart Key to handle your plug-in authorizations.

System Requirements

• Digidesign-qualified Windows Vista- (32-bit Business or Ultimate), Windows XP- or Mac OS X 10.5-based computer
  
• Minimum 1 GB of RAM
  
• DVD-ROM or equivalent optical drive for software installation
  
• Available FireWire port for 003 Rack+ system
  
• Available USB port for iLok USB Smart Key

003® Rack+ Factory is professionally engineered to deliver the stunning clarity of high-resolution audio, and durably built to withstand any knocks and bounces it encounters when your creative skills are needed on the road.

Great I/O Flexibility

• 18 simultaneous channels of audio I/O
  
• 24-bit/96 kHz resolution
  
• 8 professional mic preamps; 48V phantom power on all channels
  
• 8 analog DI/line inputs (including 1 on the front panel); 8 analog outputs
  
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O
  
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O
  
• 1 MIDI I/O (16 channels in/16 channels out)
  
• BNC Word Clock I/O
  
• Dedicated studio monitor output, plus alternate control room output
  
• Alternate Source input for external device monitoring
  
• Dual headphone outputs
  
• High-speed FireWire connectivity
  

Streamlined Interface

• 2U rackmountable chassis
  
• 8 individual input gain controls
  
• 8 discrete high-pass filter switches
  
• Individual headphone source and level controls
  
• Mute switch

Pro Tools software is used in countless professional studios around the world, and includes all the tools you need to easily compose, record, edit, mix, and master your projects with pro results — every time.

New in Pro Tools 8 software

Features

• Award-winning Pro Tools® recording, editing, and mixing
  
• 48 simultaneous stereo audio tracks (expandable with Toolkit options)
  
• Includes dozens of pro effects processing plug-ins and virtual instruments
  
• Professional MIDI sequencing with dedicated MIDI Editor window
  
• Integrated Score Editor based on award-winning Sibelius notation software
  
• Full Elastic Time and Elastic Pitch to easily adjust timing and pitch on your tracks
  
• Unique Beat Detective™ LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool
  
• ReWire support for streaming you favorite applications right into Pro Tools
  
• Support for the Digidesign C|24™ and Command|8® control surfaces
  
• Huge selection of compatible third-party plug-ins and software options
  
• Works on Windows and Mac computers

In addition to M-Audio Torq LE DJ software and an incredible 8 GB collection of pro-quality loops from industry sound heavyweights Big Fish Audio, Pro Tools software includes a comprehensive bundle of amazing virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins.

003 Factory Plug-in Bundle
Bomb Factory BF-2A Bomb Factory BF-3A Fairchild 660 and 670 Purple Audio MC77 Cosmonaut Voice JOEMEEK SC2 Photo Optical Compressor JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer Moogerfooger 12-Stage Phaser	Moogerfooger Analog Delay Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter Moogerfooger Ring Modulator SoundReplacer TL EveryPhase Tel-Ray Variable Delay Voce Chorus/Vibrato Voce Spin

IMPORTANT: The Factory bundle listed here is the most current bundle; your bundle may include a different assortment of plug-ins depending on when your Pro Tools LE Factory bundle system was purchased.

Virtual Instruments
Boom drum machine and sequencer DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation Mini Grand acoustic grand piano Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer	Xpand!2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation Structure Free sample player FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module
Effects, Sound-Processing, Utility Plug-ins
1-Band EQ III 4-Band EQ III 7-Band EQ III AIR Chorus AIR Distortion AIR Dynamic Delay AIR Enhancer AIR Ensemble AIR Filter Gate AIR Flanger AIR Frequency Shifter AIR FuzzWah AIR KillEQ AIR Lo-Fi AIR MultiChorus AIR Multi-Delay AIR Nonlinear Reverb AIR Phaser AIR Reverb AIR Spring Reverb AIR StereoWidth AIR Talkbox AIR Vintage Filter BF76 Compressor BF Essential Clip Remover BF Essential Correlation Meter BF Essential Meter Bridge BF Essential Noise Meter Celemony Melodyne Essential Chorus Click Compressor/Limiter D-Verb DC Offset Removal De-Esser	Delay DigiReWire Dither Duplicate Eleven Free Expander/Gate Extra Long Delay II Flanger Gain Invert Lo-Fi Long Delay II Maxim Medium Delay II Multi-Tap Delay Normalize Ping-Pong Delay Pitch Pitch Shift POWr Dither Recti-Fi Reverse SansAmp Sci-Fi Signal Generator Short Delay II Slap Delay II Time Compression Expansion Time Shift TL AutoPan TL InTune TL MasterMeter TL Metro Trim Vari-Fi