The Prism Atlas is a USB multi-track audio interface for personal recording and sound production, for professional musicians, songwriters, engineers and producers as well as recording studios, post production facilities and scoring stages. Atlas is ideal for music and sound recording, mixing, multitracking, overdubbing, stem-based mastering, analogue summing and critical listening applications.
Atlas provides Prism Sound's renowned performance, sound quality and state-of-the-art clock technology in a dedicated unit compatible with both Windows (Vista, 7 and 8, 32 and 64 bit, ASIO as well as MAC OS X 10.4.11 and later (Intel). Once configured with a computer, Atlas can also operate stand-alone using its ADAT, S/PDIF or AES3 I/O.
Prism Atlas Features
No-compromise, full Prism Sound audio quality
Dedicated USB interface
Multichannel Digital I/O (MDIO) expansion port
ASIO drivers provided for Windows VISTA, 7 and 8 (32 and 64bit)
Directly compatible with CORE AUDIO on Mac OS X 10.4+
Eight "Prism Sound" premium-quality AD and DA channels
Concurrent operation of ADAT and switchable S/PDIF or AES3 ports
Eight high-end integrated mic preamps (typ.-130dBu EIN)
Mic pres have individually switchable phantom power and 20dB pads
MS Matrix processing on mic inputs
Two instrument inputs
RIAA Equalization on inputs 1 & 2
Prism Sound "Overkillers" on every analogue channel to control transient overloads
Fully-floating (isolated) balanced architecture for optimum noise rejection
Mono or stereo input configurations
Outputs selectable between workstation bus or Atlas mixer
Low-latency "console-quality" 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 and mute, assignable to selected channels
Configurable for stereo, 5.1 or 7.1 or surround monitoring
Built-in sample rate conversion (SRC) on S/PDIF Inputs and Outputs
Prism Sound 4-curve SNS noise shaping on digital outputs
State-of-the-art clock generation with proprietary hybrid 2-stage DPLL