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From Our Research Team:

The New Digidesign Mbox - Even Better Than Before!

This is an opportunity for qualified educational facilities, their students, and their staff members to purchase the Mbox 2 for a special discount. Proper documentation, such as a school PO or a current ID, must be provided to receive the special pricing. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for details.

Digidesign's Mbox 2 is the follow-up to the wildly successful Mbox, with some heavy-duty improvements! The original Mbox helped thousands of musicians get into Pro Tools LE thanks to its ease of use, integration with Pro Tools software, great sonic characteristics, and affordable price. Digidesign listened to their customers and created the new, improved Mbox 2 based on that feedback. Mbox 2 sounds better on both input and output, has an integrated MIDI interface, offers more simultaneous audio I/O, and includes more free value-added software and tools. Plus, the Mbox 2 has a cool new, more flexible industrial design.

Digidesign Mbox 2 Audio/MIDI Interface at a Glance:

• Superior sound quality from new preamps and converters
  
• More simultaneous audio inputs
  
• New MIDI I/O
  
• Exclusive 24/7 Sweetwater Support
  
• Great new hardware design
  
• Includes dozens of plug-in effects and instruments
  
• Use Pro Tools 8 - The same software as the pros

Superior sound quality from new preamps and converters
Digidesign rolled up their sleeves and went to work to make sure the Mbox 2 delivers superior sound quality that easily surpasses the sound of almost any other bus-powered USB-audio interface. Mbox 2 features newly-designed mic preamps (designed by Digidesign) and new A/D and D/A converters, offering an impressive dynamic range that translates into much more headroom and a significantly lower noise floor. The result is that Mbox 2 users can record ideas more accurately and play them back in greater fidelity than ever before.

More simultaneous audio inputs
Unlike the original Mbox, Mbox 2 enables you to use the two analog inputs in conjunction with the two channels of S/PDIF digital input on the unit to achieve four simultaneous channels of audio input. That means it's easy to connect a drum machine, keyboard, sampler, or other gear and record simultaneously.

New MIDI I/O
Even with modern computers, it pays to install fewer devices and conserve bus bandwidth. Unlike the original Mbox, Mbox 2 features a MIDI in/out port, offering improved integration with MIDI controllers, hardware synthesizers and samplers, and virtual instruments. That means you don't need an additional MIDI interface!

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!

Great new hardware design
Digidesign gave the Mbox 2 a sleek, more practical and flexible design that allows the unit to lie down flat, sit with a convenient upwards tilt for easy access to the front panel controls, or simply stand vertically to fit smaller workspaces. The Mbox 2 will easily fit into your desktop, laptop, or mobile setup!

Includes Dozens of Plug-in Effects and Instruments
Powered by award-winning, easy-to-use Pro Tools LE software, the Mbox 2 system turns your PC or Mac into a full-fledged recording studio that's packed with many of the same tools the pros use. The Mbox 2 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 powerful Xpand!2 multitimbral synthesizer and sample workstation from Digidesign, and the amazingly realistic sounding BFD Lite acoustic drum virtual instrument.

Pro Tools 8 - the same software the pros use
Of course, the heart of the Mbox 2 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 Mbox 2 Audio/MIDI Interface Features:

• 4-in, 2-out audio/MIDI interface
  
• Superior sonic performance
  
• New mic preamps with better power supply design and better phantom power circuit
  
• 100% USB powered for maximum portability
  
• Separate Inputs for mic, line & DI, all on I/O rear panel
  
• 2 analog inputs (XLR and 1/4" jacks) & 2 analog outputs (1/4" jacks)
  
• 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O (coax)
  
• 4 simultaneous channels of input using both analog and digital I/O
  
• 1 MIDI input & 1 MIDI output (16 channels in/16 channels out)
  
• Zero-latency monitoring
  
• 48-volt phantom power for condenser microphones
  
• Separate source selection and gain control per channel
  
• Headphone output with dedicated volume control
  
• Dedicated studio monitor volume control
  
• True multi-client audio/MIDI drivers (for Mac OS X; Windows XP drivers coming soon)
  
• Includes award-winning Pro Tools LE recording, editing, and mixing software

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 Mbox 2 makes getting into Pro Tools even easier!

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number 9900-41933-00