Despite the compact size of the case, its rear panel is laid out with sufficient spacing between the various connectors to let you plug and unplug individual items without upsetting everything else - though only just! The Orion 32's 1U rackmounting steel chassis extends about 200mm behind the rack ears, and weighs roughly 3kg. There are impressive digital I/O options, too. The huge analogue channel count is accommodated via D-sub connectors on the rear panel, as it would be impossible to fit in enough jacks or XLRs. and I could just end the review there, because that's probably all most people really need to know! However, that's not the way we do things at SOS Towers, so let me tell you more about this impressive little interface.
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Finally, just to add a blindingly red and shiny cherry to the top of a very thickly iced cake, the Orion is not only Windows and OS X-compatible, but works with iOS devices (via the camera connection kit for iPads) too, thanks to a custom USB interface chip.Īs far as I'm aware, there is nothing else available that even gets close to this amount of I/O, in a box this small, at this quality level, and this kind of price.
Amazingly, that still wasn't enough for the ingenious folks at Antelope, because they also added their oven-stabilised crystal master-clock circuitry (using the company's proprietary 'Acoustically Focused' jitter technology), complete with an external 'atomic clock' reference input, and four word-clock distribution outputs to synchronise external equipment. They've also included additional digital I/O in the form of 64 channels of optical MADI, 16 channels of ADAT (at base sample rates), and two channels of S/PDIF. That brief description in itself will, I'm sure, be enough to whet some people's appetites, but Antelope have actually produced something even more impressive than a straight 32 I/O converter here. Apparently, this is the world's first 32-channel, 1U USB interface, and the manufacturers have even managed to fit in a proper, internal, universal mains power supply! In a nutshell, the Orion 32 manages to squeeze into a single 1U rackmount box 32 channels of analogue audio in and out, with a genuine two-way 32-channel USB 2 interface for your computer, supporting all standard sample rates from 32 to 192 kHz.
Antelope Audio's new Orion 32 interface is the latest - and, arguably, the most impressive - example to date of that fashion. However, in recent months I've noticed a distinct trend towards providing more generous I/O counts in smaller boxes - not least through the increasing adoption of large-scale formats like MADI and audio-over-IP.
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Providing lots of analogue I/O for your DAW software has, in the past, generally involved expensive arrays of multiple interface and conversion units occupying many inches of rack space. With 32 analogue I/O, MADI and ADAT in a 1U format, this Antelope stands out from the herd!
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