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From Our Research Team:

Rack Up Success With The Latest Pro Tools LE Interface!

Sweetwater has sold and configured more Pro Tools systems than virtually anybody on the planet. From pre-sales questions to lifetime technical support, you can be sure that Sweetwater has the Digidesign 003 Rack answers you need today! FireWire connectivity makes for an adaptable, portable solution - perfect for your laptop or desktop - while offering high data-transfer speeds and plug-and-play capability. Check out the Digidesign 003 Rack and see why Pro Tools continues to be the industry standard.

With the Digidesign 003, the latest generation of Pro Tools LE interfaces has arrived! Building on the success of the hugely successful 002, the 003 takes all the built-in functionality of its predecessor and ups the ante with redesigned preamps and superior A/D conversion. The 003 preamps are the latest generation mic pre for Pro Tools LE interfaces, and use discrete, bi-polar, low-noise transistors coupled with a cleaner signal flow and improved pots. The 003 is also equipped with word clock I/O making it super-easy to sync Pro Tools LE with external digital devices. Also new to the 003 Rack is a pair of control room outputs in addition to the dedicated monitor outputs. The 003 revolutionized the home studio, and the 003 continues that with additional "wow"-factor features.

Digidesign 003 Rack at a Glance:

• 003 Rack hardware features FireWire convenience & a TON of I/O
  
• Exclusive 24/7 Sweetwater Support
  
• Includes dozens of plug-in effects and instruments
  
• Professional Pro Tools Software

003 Rack - Racked Up Success!
Complementing the intuitive, comprehensive software components of the 003 Rack is a unique and innovative hardware configuration that provides convenient access to a ton of inputs and outputs! In fact, the 003 Rack delivers the same I/O as its cousin, the 003! This 2U rack mount marvel features four redesigned microphone preamps (with front panel gain control), eight line inputs and outputs, Word Clock, MIDI I/O and digital I/O via S/PDIF and ADAT light pipe connection! Again, the 003 Rack connects to your laptop or desktop computer via plug-and-play FireWire!

Exclusive 24/7 Sweetwater Support
When you buy your Pro Tools system from Sweetwater, you have a team of Pro Tools experts standing behind you. We have helped literally thousands of our customers get started with their Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered systems, and we've even created a Sweetwater-exclusive online Pro Tools Resource Center that answers many of the most common Pro Tools questions - everything from how to set up your first session, to the latest compatibility details. All of these resources - including our award-winning tech support team - are absolutely free to Sweetwater customers, and you'll have immediate access to them from the moment you open the box!

Includes Dozens of Plug-in Effects and Instruments
Powered by award-winning, easy-to-use Pro Tools LE software, 003 Rack turns your PC or Mac into a full-fledged recording studio that's packed with many of the same tools the pros use. 003 Rack also comes with an incredible suite of virtual instruments, including the Boom drum machine and sequencer, the DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator, the Mini Grand acoustic grand piano, and the Vacuum tube synthesizer. Plus, you also get the Structure Free sampler player, the Xpand!2, multitimbral synthesizer and sample workstation, and the BFD Lite acoustic drum virtual instrument.

Pro Tools 8 - The same software the pros use
Of course, the heart of the 003 system is the powerful Digidesign Pro Tools LE 8 software - the same software used in countless professional recording studios and post houses across the world. The tracks that you create in Pro Tools LE 8 can be instantly opened and used in those same pro studios - take your sessions to a Pro Tools|HD-equipped studio and have them mixed by a pro, or enjoy having your entire body of work be fully compatible and usable whenever it's time to make the move into a larger system - with Pro Tools LE 8, you become a part of the largest community of digital audio workstation users in the world.

This version of the industry standard gives you unprecedented Pro Tools LE recording, mixing, and editing power, offering an impressive 48 simultaneous mono or stereo audio tracks - expandable up to 128 tracks with full 7.1 surround sound mixing! You'll also enjoy robust MIDI sequencing and editing abilities, built-in music notation tools with the Score Editor, Elastic Time and Elastic Pitch control, easy track-comping tools, convenient automation and controller lanes, and a time-saving update-checking feature for Pro Tools and all of your plug-ins. Plus, Pro Tools LE 8 includes a comprehensive collection of professional sound-processing plug-ins and 20 new effects - on top of a host of incredible virtual instruments. There are a Mini Grand piano, the Boom drum machine, the DB-33 tonewheel organ, and Vacuum and Xpand!2 synths, and more - as well as more than 9GB of high-quality loops and a ton of plug-ins and tools to fix, enhance, and polish your mixes. In short, you'll have all the tools you need to create radio-ready tracks - right from the moment you open the box.

Digidesign 003 Rack Features:

• 8 redesigned discrete analog inputs (4 mic/line/instrument (DI) preamps; phantom power selectable in two channel increments)
  
• Alternate Source Input for monitoring -10 dBV audio equipment (tape players, CD players, etc.) directly to the monitor outputs
  
• 8 discrete analog outputs, all balanced +4 levels, plus a separate balanced monitor output
  
• Improved 24-bit/96 kHz converters
  
• Monitor output includes dedicated volume control knob
  
• 2 Headphone outputs include dedicated volume control knobs
  
• Word Clock
  
• 8 channels of ADAT optical I/O
  
• 2 channels of S/PDIF I/O
  
• MIDI I/O - 1 input port/2 output ports (16 channels in/32 out)

Included Virtual Instruments and Audio Content:

• 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 (RTAS)
  
• FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module
  
• 8GB of loops from Big Fish Audio
  
• M-Audio Torq LE DJ Software

Included Bomb Factory Plug-ins:

• BF76 Compressor
  
• BF Essential Clip Remover
  
• BF Essential Correlation Meter
  
• BF Essential Meter Bridge
  
• BF Essential Noise Meter

Included Effects, Sound-Processing, and 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
  
• 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

The Digidesign 003 Rack: Professional results from a professional package!

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number 9900-38730-00