Cranborne Audio 500R8 usb audio interface

500R8 is home to 8 of your favourite 500 series modules. It’s also a 28in/30out USB audio interface, monitor controller, and discrete analogue summing mixer.

Analogue Character

Configure 500R8 to suit your desired analogue flavour. Fill it full of vintage-style 500 series preamps when you’re recording drums, clean and pristine preamps when you’re recording strings, or EQ/Compressor/saturation 500 series modules when it’s time for mixing.

Digital Precision

Connect 500R8 directly to your PC/Mac and capture every last nuance of your analogue sources with reference-class AD/DA conversion and superior internal clocking. Effortlessly pass audio between analogue and digital worlds without digital artefacts that colour and degrade your recordings.

The Studio Essentials

500R8 has everything you need to build your dream analogue/digital hybrid studio. Each element has been carefully considered and designed to give you best of everything combined into a package that is intuitive (and fun) to use.

USB Audio Interface

Connect directly to your PC/mac via USB and utilise 500R8’s built-in 28-in/30-out USB audio interface for recording and playback directly to/from your chosen DAW.

Zero Latency Artist Mixer

Monitor live sources in the analogue domain with zero latency by using dedicated mix level and pan controls per-channel combined with our seriously high-powered headphone amps.

Monitor Controller

Switch between two sets of speakers, toggle Mono sum, Mute, Dim, and Talkback facilities whilst monitoring the peak level of your mix with 28-segments of LED detail by using the built-in, high-headroom monitor controller.

Discrete Summing Mixer

Elevate your mix with analogue character and sum 8 USB sources through your 500 series modules and into the discrete analogue summing mixer to be summed and recorded back into your DAW as a stereo track.

World-Class Conversion & Clocking

To make your 500 series modules shine on your digital recordings, our conversion had to be best-in-class. We squeezed every possible .1dB of performance out of 500R8’s converters to ensure that the only thing colouring your recordings are your mic placements, mixing decisions, and choice of 500 series modules.

Specifications

• Dynamic Range: 121dB A-weighted, AES17 method, 20Hz – 20kHz
• THD+N: <0.00032% (-110dB) @ -4dBFS, 20Hz – 40kHz, 1kHz, A-weighted
• Frequency Response: -1dB, 2.2Hz to >80kHz
• Clock Jitter: <0.5 Picoseconds