Antelope Audio Zen Studio

Never has so much outstanding audio quality and useful functionality been engineered into such a compact package! The Antelope Audio Zen Studio gives you full-featured audio interface, clock, preamp, and monitor controller functions in a svelte, road-ready chassis. Featuring 20 analog inputs, 12 world-class mic preamps, Antelope's peerless conversion and clocking, onboard DSP effects, multiple monitor mixers, custom high-bandwidth low-latency USB, and Mac/PC control software, the sleek, back-packable Zen Studio houses the powerful core of your professional mobile recording studio.

Antelope Audio Zen Studio at a Glance

•     Amazingly "analog-sounding" conversion
•     Comprehensive mic pre, hi-Z instrument, and line input options
•     Parallel DSP and effects processing
•     Rock-solid zero-latency USB audio interface
•     Extremely flexible routing and mixing capabilities
•     Antelope's acclaimed clocking technology

Zen Studio's intuitive user interface includes tabbed views for Routing, Mixer, AFX, Meters, and Options, plus five Preset buttons. You drive Zen Studio from Antelope Audio's intuitive Mac/PC desktop app, which gives you flexible control over signal routing, DSP effects, custom presets, and more. Create up to four independent, zero-latency mixes, assignable to any outputs, including the headphone and monitor outs.

•     Tabbed views for Routing, Mixer, AFX, Meters, and Options, plus 5 Preset buttons
•     Flexible control over signal routing, DSP effects, custom presets, and more
•     Create up to 4 independent, zero-latency mixes

In addition to its outstanding audio quality, the Antelope Audio Zen Studio gives you a beefy DSP engine built on a field-programmable gate array IC with mammoth parallel-processing mojo, for eight times more DSP power than similar devices. This lets you enjoy rapid simultaneous processing of multiple effects, juicing your workflow like you won't believe.

•     Onboard DSP-powered EQ and compression
•     Beefy DSP engine built on a field-programmable gate array IC
•     Rapid simultaneous processing of multiple effects

When it comes right down to it, all the flexibility in the world doesn't do you any good if audio quality is lacking; fortunately, Zen Studio's Acoustically Focused Clocking delivers the most analog-sounding audio conversion we've heard, with clean transients, stunning clarity, and detail that let you really hear the attack of instruments and vocals. Antelope's renowned clocking and conversion technology, together with the custom USB technology in the Zen Studio, are the same as in the acclaimed 32-channel Orion interface — a fixture in world-class studios and the playback rigs of top artists.

•     Acoustically focused clocking
•     Stunning clarity and detail
•     Renowned Antelope conversion

With its outstanding audio quality, flexibility, and portability, the Zen Studio is a natural for EDM producers who work in multiple studio facilities or challenging environments to use in place of a console, but its generous I/O, 12 great-sounding mic pres, DSP EQ and dynamics, and onboard monitoring facilities also make it a logical choice for tracking a small band or multi-mic drum setup. All the audio I/O is available simultaneously, for a total of 38 input and 32 output channels, plus 24 concurrent I/O channels via Zen Studio's 24-bit/192kHz custom USB.

•     12 great-sounding mic preamps
•     Simultaneous I/O up to 38 inputs/32 outputs
•     24 concurrent I/O channels via USB

Antelope scored a huge hit with their Orion interface, a AudioBuy.com.au Australia best-seller found in countless top studios worldwide. The Zen Studio maintains that uncompromising level of audio quality while offering you true portability and genuinely useful features geared toward the way you make music today. What's not to love? We're mightily impressed with the Antelope Audio Zen Studio. We're confident you will be, too!