Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Lexicon® Alpha Desktop Recording Studio™. The Alpha Studio is a complete package of hardware and software that turns your USB-equipped computer into a professional multitrack recording workstation. Whether you use it for high-quality stereo location recording with a laptop computer, or for multitrack overdubbing and mixing in a home studio desktop system, the Alpha Studio hardware provides the professional-quality inputs and outputs, metering, and level controls that computer sound cards or built-in audio connections lack.
So you can make full use of the Alpha Studio right away, we’ve included the popular Steinberg® Cubase® LE production suite software for PC and Mac® computers. Cubase LE offers integrated multi-track recording, editing and mixing of up to 48 audio tracks, 64 MIDI tracks, VST® Instruments support, VST plug-in effects support, and an array of additional features. Lexicon’s Pantheon™ VST reverb plug-in is a major feature of the Alpha Studio package, providing the lush Lexicon reverbs that have been used on pro- fessional recordings for over thirty years. Alternatively, the Lexicon Alpha Studio may be used as an interface with almost any other major audio recording software you may have, such as Steinberg Nuendo®, Cubase SX®, MOTU® Digital Performer®, Garage Band®, Cakewalk® Sonar™, and many others.
Features
The Alpha Desktop Recording Studio™ provides the following:
•4 analog audio inputs
•1 - XLR mic input with extremely low noise preamp and 50 dB gain
•2 - ¼" analog RF filtered TRS active-balanced line inputs
•1 - ¼" high-impedance analog instrument input
•2 - RCA outputs
•2 - ¼" analog TRS active line outputs
•High powered headphone amplifier
•24-bit A/D and D/A converters, supporting sample rates of 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz
•Zero-latency analog record monitoring with adjustable balance between Direct and Playback Signals
•Stereo and Mono input source monitoring
•100% USB Powered
