Antelope Audio Zen Studio+ Thunderbolt Audio Interface in Limited Edition Red

Antelope Audio is well known for its high-end audio conversion and digital clocking solutions, so when they applied this knowledge and experience to full audio interfaces, the results are both powerful and perform well in a wide range of recording setups.

Antelope Audio also include an array of world-class plugins with any of their interfaces - completely free! You'll get the full (and ever-expanding) list of Antelope Vintage FX models. These plugins are repeatedly rated among the best on the market, offering unique FPGA-based emulations of real hardware. And they're completely free with any Antelope device!

Flexible Connectivity

The Zen Studio packs 12 mic pres and other I/O into a stylish and portable audio interface with Antelope's signature clocking, hardware based effects and ultra low latency performance. Zen Studio is designed to meet the needs of the modern day producer or engineer on-the-go, as well as location sound engineers, sound designers, independent bands and musicians in search of greater sound quality and flexibility.

In total you get 12 mic/line inputs (four of them capable of being instrument inputs); eight other analogue line level inputs; stereo monitor outputs and two independent headphone outputs; eight analogue line outputs; 2x ADAT in and 2x ADAT out, stereo S/PDIF input and output on coaxials and two TRS inserts, word clock in and out and 16 channels of onboard DSP processing.

All this, in a compact, rugged package that's designed to be taken on the road, enduring session after session without complaint.

Flawless Clocking and Conversion

Antelope pride themselves on some of the best clocking and conversion hardware in the buisness, as used by top artists like Rihanna, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake. If you want your tracks to stay as true to the original performance as possible, you can count on the Zen Studio to give you that rich analog tone you are looking for.

Vintage Hardware Based FX

In addition to proven sound quality, Zen Studio offers an extremely powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device with massive hardware modeling capabilities. This proprietary FPGA is eight times more powerful than the ones used in similar devices. This allows fast and easy simultaneous processing of multiple effects, enhancing your studio workflow like no other device on the market.

Aura Verb

'As thick and authentic as a real hardware reverb'. Another Great addition to the Zen Studio interface is AuraVerb – our first reverb. It creates various ambient colors, or “Auras”, using a unique algorithm to provide richness like no other reverb plugin on the market.

Producers can easily design thickening effects, washing effects, bright halo type film score effects. There are also darkened mood effects and long, clear and rich decays – just a few of the many dimensions, which AuraVerb is able to add to the mix.

AuraVerb comes with reverb presets, exclusively designed by the 5-time Grammy Award winning recording and mixing engineer Brian “Dr. Vibb” Vibberts.

Key Features

• 12 high-end mic pres, allowing you to record and mix a full band in-the-box
• Antelope Audio’s 4th gen 64-bit AFC jitter management
• 24-BIT, 192 KHZ AD/DA Analog sounding conversion on a device that fits in your backpack
• Custom FPGA for massive hardware modeling
• Battle-tested, custom USB streaming of 24 simultaneous I/O channels
• Create up to four independent, zero-latency mixes assignable to any output