Antelope Audio announces availability of Orion 32+ | Gen 3

After making waves with its premiere performance at the 2019 NAMM show in Southern California, Antelope Audio is proud to announce availability of Orion 32+ | Gen 3. Orion 32+ its their next generation audio interface which offers 64 simultaneous hi-res audio channels of 24bit/192kHz audio via Thunderbolt, with 64-bit AFC (Acoustically Focused Clocking) and 129 dB dynamic range.

Orion 32+ | Gen 3 comes complete with a complimentary suite of effects, each running in real-time on an ultra-fast FPGA (field programmable gate array, basically a custom computer chip for all you non-technical people). Even recording at maximum specs will only produce a monitoring latency of 1.2ms, and a recording latency of 0.9ms. Keep in mind this doesn't necessarily mean your computer will be able to keep up with this caliber of latency, but the Orion 32+ removes the audio interface from being the bottleneck and can offer the ability to move some of your effect processing onto the unit (similar to Universal Audio interfaces).

To provide people some background info to this FPGA talk, and built in effects processing... Basically your home PC (or Mac) is a general purpose computing device suited to run many tasks well. An FPGA is something that can be configured to run a specific task very well, and very fast. This allows Antelope Audio to develop effects that are much more realistic and computationally expensive than anything your PC could handle, and run it off of the audio interface's FPGA.

This is a world-class interface for professionals, but the price tag is only about $2,595 - on par with industry prices for a device of this caliber. For more information head on over to Antelope Audio's website.