Product Description

48 tracks, No Waiting
Blazing speed, graceful curves, and near silence. The next generation of Digital Audio Workstations has arrived. Advanced cooling technology keeps it virtually silent even sitting next to your most sensitive microphone. Fast, clean and quiet the Element Digital Audio Workstation gives you the tools you need to get the job done!

The Complete Solution
Onboard high quality 2 channel (8.1 Surround) audio card from Intel and Sonar LE capable of the recording, MIDI and mixing functionality of an 8 input recorder and 64 track mix down system. Open the box and start creating!

Fast and Quiet
A state-of-the-art Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading tears up any command no matter how many tracks you've got. A brilliantly designed cooling system keeps the Element R cool and quiet running with optimal CPU and PSU fan speeds slow enough to keep it virtually silent no matter how close your mics are.

Plug and Play
The Element R is designed with your needs in mind. Whatever the project, we've got you covered. An amazing eight USB 2.0 ports and 6 FireWire 400 ports will take any and every audio interface you need to get the job done. Four PCI slots give you the freedom to expand as far as you need to go. Hook up a second monitor with the included dual video card. Burn CDs DVDs with the standard DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Combo Optical Drive. Expand it even further with a super quiet StormDrive. Whatever your needs, the Element R is designed to grow with you.

Features:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550J LGA775 1 MB L2 3.4 GHz 800 MHz

915 PBLL MB with integrated 1394 FireWire, Audio and 10/100 LAN

1 GB OF DDR-2 RAM (533Mhz)

200 GB Ultra 150 SATA Hard Drive with 8 MB buffer

1.44 floppy drive

Dual Layer DVD+/-RW/CD-RW Combo Optical Drive

8 USB 2.0 Ports (6 Rear/2 Front)

6 FireWire Ports (3x3 independent IEEE 1394 chipsets/6 pin/External/5 Rear/1 Front)

Dual PCI Express Video Ports (1x1 analog / 1 analog x 1 DVI)

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

10/100 On-Board Network Adaptor

Silent 300-watt power supply

Intel Precision Cooling Technology

Zalman CNPS Computer Noise Prevention System

4 PCI bus add-in card connectors

Intel High Definition 8-Channel Line-Level Audio Card; 24/96 S/PDIF 2 digital audio out connectors (1 coaxial, 1 optical)

Premium USB keyboard and mouse

Sonar LE Digital Audio Workstation

Cakewalk Sonar LE
Cakewalk Sonar LE is the feature-rich recording software for aspiring musicians and producers getting started with PC-based recording. Cakewalk, the makers of Sonar, the definitive audio production environment on the Windows platform, has become synonymous with musical technology that balances power with ease of use. In Sonar LE they are now bringing you a host of powerful recording tools based on Cakewalk's award-winning Sonar audio and MIDI technology. With Sonar LE and the audio hardware it comes bundled with, you now have everything you need to make your own multi-track recordings.

Sonar LE Features:
An easy to use, intuitive interface

Record it all with 64 audio and 256 MIDI tracks

Pristine audio quality up to: 24-bit/192 kHz

14 studio-quality real-time audio effects and 6 MIDI effects

Making backing tracks fast with: audio loop construction tools with ACID-format loop support

Get that professional mix with a dynamic mixing console view

Create MIDI Drum parts with a multi-port graphical drum editor

Edit all of your MIDI with an easy to use multitrack piano roll view

Edit and print your music and with Staff notation that includes lyrics and chord changes

Add more effects and instruments support for DirectX/DXi, VST/VSTi, and ReWire 2.0

Build arrangements fast with Cyclone DXi groove sampler

Get fat classic synth tones with Dreamstation DXi virtual analog soft synth

Sync up with other hardware in your studio with MIDI clock and MTC slave

And more

Intel High Definition Audio
Intel has worked with the industry to develop a new specification for integrated audio that is capable of delivering the features and high-end performance of an add-in audio card. Intel High Definition Audio (Intel HD Audio) is capable of playing back more channels at higher quality than previous integrated audio formats.

Intel HD Audio is capable of delivering the support and sound quality for up to 8 channels at 192kHz/32-bit quality. In addition, Intel HD Audio is architected to prevent the occasional glitches or pops that other audio solutions can have by providing dedicated system bandwidth for critical audio functions.

Intel HD Audio also provides improvements that support jack re-tasking. The computer can sense when a device is plugged into an audio jack, determine what kind of device it is, and change the port function if the device has been plugged into the wrong port. For example, if a microphone is plugged into a speaker jack, the computer will recognize the error and can change the jack to function as a microphone jack. This is an important step in getting audio to a point where it 'just works' -- users won't need to worry about. Letting the right device plugged into the right audio jack. Designed for "glitch-free" audio playback, multi-streaming, jack re-tasking and UAA support, Intel HD Audio offers an audio solution for years to come.

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