Description of Eris E55:
When you’re ready to get serious about recording, it’s time to step up to PreSonus Eris-series studio monitors. Cheap computer speakers and home-stereo speakers won’t reveal the truth about your mix. They aren’t designed for that.
In contrast, Eris speakers are real studio monitors, delivering a very accurate response with a tight bass and very clear upper end. That’s what you need in a home studio. Thanks to well-designed Kevlar® low frequency transducers, low-mass silk-dome tweeters, responsive Class AB amplification, and professional acoustic-adjustment controls, Eris delivers the goods.
Yet Eris-series speakers are ultra-affordable, making them a terrific value. And with two models, you can easily find the Eris monitor that best suits your studio needs.
If space is at a premium, or if you want the ultimate in portability, consider the compact Eris E5, which takes up just 7 x 10.24 x 7.68 inches (178 x 260 x 195 mm) and weighs in at just 10.2 lbs (4.63 kg). You can shoehorn this little beauty into almost any studio space.
The E5 sports a 5.25-inch, Kevlar low-frequency driver, mated with a 45W, Class AB amplifier; and a 1-inch (25 mm), silk-dome tweeter powered by a 35W, Class AB amplifier. It can crank out a clean 102 dB SPL, peak. Frequency response is rated at 53 Hz to 22 kHz. For a studio monitor in its size and price class, that’s impressive.
All Eris speakers have front-ported enclosures made of vinyl-laminated, medium-density fiberboard (MDF).
The 2021 PreSonus Studio Magic Plug-In Suite includes over $1000 worth of effects, virtual instruments, and sound libraries in VST, AU, and AAX formats to use in Studio One or your DAW of choice, all created by the best developers in the business.
Connections
Both Eris models provide balanced XLR, balanced ¼” TRS, and unbalanced RCA line-level inputs. When both balanced connections are in use, the TRS input will supersede the XLR input. The RCA input is summed into the signal path.
With this selection, you’ll have no problem hooking your Eris speakers up with virtually any line-level source. (If your signal source has unbalanced, ¼” TS outputs, simply use a ¼”-to-RCA adapter or adapter cable.)
You’re in control!
Today’s music producers deal with a wide variety of musical genres and often work in more than one location. It’s easy to take your Eris speakers with you when you want to work in a different space. It’s almost as easy to customize their sound for your room and type of music.
The most basic control is the Input Gain, which determines the signal level before it reaches the power amp. This is part of gain-staging your overall system—that is, setting the levels for every part of the recording chain in order to get the optimal level of clean audio all the way through. Once you’ve gain-staged your system, you can leave this control alone.
The Eris E5 E8 provides three EQ controls in its Acoustic Tuning section: High, Mid, and Low Cutoff. These controls enable you to fine-tune the monitors and even to broadly approximate the sounds of different types of speakers so you can hear what your mix might sound like, for instance, on a car stereo or portable radio. The Low control also is useful when using the E5 or E8 with a subwoofer.
In addition to the Acoustic Tuning controls, Eris speakers offer a three-position Acoustic Space switch. This switch controls a second-order, low shelving filter that cuts the level of all frequencies below 800 Hz by a specified amount (-2 or -4 dB) to compensate for the boundary bass boost that occurs when the monitor is placed near a wall or corner. If you don’t want to roll of those lows, set it to 0 dB.
This combination of controls lets you create a linear response for accurate monitoring and enables you to simulate different listening environments, so you don’t have to listen to mixes on your car, consumer computer speakers, and home stereo to check how the music sounds with different systems. Instead, you can adjust the Eris monitors’ response and test your mixes without leaving your studio. No other monitors in this price class offer this degree of control.
Safety Matters
Any loudspeaker is subject to an assortment of environmental and performance problems, and Eris monitors offer protection from most common of these. RF shielding protects against radio frequencies that could be induced into the signal and become audible. (If you’ve ever heard a radio broadcast unexpectedly coming out of a guitar amp, that’s the result of RF interference.)
Eris monitors also provide over-temperature protection to avoid heat-related issues, current-output limiting (to prevent damage should there be a short circuit on the speaker terminals), and subsonic protection to filter out extremely low-frequency vibrations that could interfere with the woofer’s performance.
Finally, Eris’ power amplifiers have a “soft startup” so that you don’t get damaging pops in the speakers when you power them up.
Sound Thinking
By now, it should be clear that Eris-series speakers deliver a lot more than you would expect from a budget-priced studio monitors. As you expect from PreSonus, they use quality components, are well constructed, and deliver professional audio quality. They’re lightweight and compact and look as professional as they sound.
But what really sets them apart from comparably priced systems are user controls that allow you to tailor the speakers’ response to your needs.
Features:
- Presonus Eris E5 Professional High Definition Home Studio Active Monitor
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- 5.25-inch (E5) Kevlar® low-frequency transducer
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- 1-inch (25 mm), ultra-low-mass, silk-dome, high-frequency transducer
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- 70 (E5) Class AB biamplification
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- Front-firing acoustic port for superior bass-frequency reproduction
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- Midrange (±6 dB, continuously variable), HF (±6 dB, continuously variable), High-Pass (Off, 80 Hz, 100 Hz) and Acoustic Space settings (flat, -2, -4 dB) for accurate mixing contour
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- RF interference, output current limiting, over-temperature, transient, and subsonic protection
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- Optimized, resonance-suppressing internal bracing
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- Balanced XLR ¼-inch and unbalanced RCA inputs
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- 102 dB (E5) maximum continuous SPL
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Details:

Description of Studio One:
Studio
One Prime provides everything you need to get started in content
creation and audio production. Create your own music and podcasts as
intuitively as possible with a single-window, drag-and-drop workflow
that will make you wonder why you put up with other software that isn’t
designed the same way.
Studio One Prime is designed to keep you
in the creative flow by providing powerful tools that help you when you
need them—and stay out of your way when you don’t. You’ll supercharge
your creativity with its unlimited tracks, buses and a powerful
complement of virtual instruments and native effects that sound just as
good (and frequently, better) than third-party effects.
Guitarists
will love the new third-generation Ampire tech that has the most
realistic amp and cabinet simulations we’ve ever made. Fans of EDM and
hip-hop will appreciate Studio One’s Pattern Editor, which allows for
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inspired UI, which might be just about the most fun and rewarding
music-creation technique out there.
Only
Studio One 5 Prime lets you truly create without boundaries—for free.
And when you’re ready for more features, it s easy to move up to Studio
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Features:
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- Intuitive single-window work environment with quick and easy drag-and-drop functionality and multi-touch support
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- Unlimited audio and instrument tracks, virtual instruments, and FX channels
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- Powerful Presence XT virtual sample-player for keyboard and synth sounds
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- Patterns allow for intuitive drum and melody composition via familiar drum machine step-sequencer style UI
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- NEW! Completely redesigned Native Effects plug-in suite.
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Description of Studio Magic:
Make your own magic.
Music
creation is a lot like a magic show. You ve got an audience to impress
and a lot of tricks up your sleeve; success requires a combination of
real talent and perhaps a little bit of smoke and mirrors. At PreSonus,
we want to make sure that our audio products come with everything you
need to craft your own mesmerizing spells in the studio. That’s why we
include Studio One Artist with every audio interface and controller
product we make, from the 2-channel AudioBox USB 96 to the 64-channel
StudioLive 64S, ATOM to FaderPort 16, but we didn’t stop there. Why?
Because
here in Louisiana, we have a word: lagniappe. It means “a little
something extra,” and it’s in that spirit that we also include the
Studio Magic Suite of software with our audio interface products and–new
for 2021–our award-winning controllers and studio monitors as well.
The
2021 Studio Magic includes tutorials from Melodics, sound libraries
from Ghost Hack, 7 virtual instruments, and 9 effects plug-ins in VST,
AU, and AAX formats to use in Studio One 5 Artist or your DAW of choice
with a retail value of over $1000 (US).
That
means you ll have a broader assortment of spellcasting ingredients for
Studio One straight out of the box; all created by the best developers
in the business.
You ll
be able to go wild with funky R&B drums and synths from beyond the
sound of time—or add professional sheen and dynamics to ensure your
mixes are a cut above the rest.
Features:
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Arturia Analog Lab Intro: Analog
Lab Intro gives you access to the most iconic synth and keyboard sounds
of all time, taken from our 28 expertly-crafted V Collection instrument
emulations. From analog synthesizers to revolutionary digital
workstations, these are the sounds that made history.
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Brainworx bx_opto: The
Brainworx bx_opto compressor combines the best aspects and anomalies
from several legendary, light-dependent compressor circuits. The result
is a powerful dynamics processor, teeming with character and delivering
sounds that can’t be achieved with analog optical compressors.
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Brainworx bx_rockrack: The
bx_rockrack V3 boasts eight famous amp models in a single plugin. On
top of that, 40 impulse responses are included, offering just the right
variety of tone and timbre for your guitar rig. Brainworx gives you a
powerful selection of perfectly-recorded boutique cabinets captured with
complete effects chains from studios featuring great sounding amp rooms
and stellar gear. Each amp was painstakingly recorded by professional
audio engineers who make their living by capturing tone.
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Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer: The
fun and funky Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer from Cherry Audio is a
super authentic recreation of the Realistic MG-1 synthesizer sold in
Radio Shack stores in the 80 s. The Surrealistic MG-1 Plus delivers fat
analog tone in spades, along with a unique polyphonic oscillator
section, bell tone ring modulation, glide, auto repeat note
triggering, oscillator sync, and a number of improvements that
tremendously expand its capabilities. Surrealistic MG-1 Plus works
seamlessly as a plugin inside Studio One and is available in AU, VST,
VST3, AAX, and standalone formats
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Cherry Audio Voltage Nucleus: The
ultimate introduction to modular synthesis, Voltage Modular Nucleus is a
collection of 22 modules and 67 presets. This package includes all of
the fundamentals of subtractive analog synthesis, including oscillators,
filters, envelope generators, amplifiers, and mixers, plus a sequencer,
arpeggiator, and a full suite of useful utility modules and powerful
effects modules. With Voltage Modular Nucleus, you can discover the
thrill of patching modules together in new and endlessly creative ways
and explore all of the capabilities of Voltage Modular.
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Ghosthack Essential Sounds: Ghosthack
Essential Sounds is the perfect sound pack for music producers and
content creators alike. Expect professional one-shots, loops, MIDI files
and full music tracks.
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iZotope Neutron Elements: Neutron
Elements is the latest addition to iZotope’s Neutron family of mixing
plug-ins featuring futuristic, assistive technology and four
fantastic-sounding audio processors: Compressor, EQ, Exciter, and
Transient Shaper. Like having a virtual assistant, Neutron Elements will
listen to your audio, identify instruments, and offer custom starting
points for your mix decisions while leaving the creative control to you.
Optimized for mixing, use Neutron Elements on dozens of tracks to
diagnose mix problems, carve away muddiness and reveal new sonic
possibilities in your mixes.
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Klanghelm SDRR2tube: Add
warmth, depth and character to your tracks with Klanghelm SDRR2tube.
SDRR2tube can be a saturation processor, a compressor, an EQ, a
bit-crusher, or a subtle stereo widener—or it can simply add movement to
your tracks. A comprehensive set of controls enables you to manipulate
the character of the saturation to make it sit perfectly in your mix.
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KV331 Audio Synthmaster Player: SynthMaster
Player is a simplified version of SynthMaster with limited editing
capabilities designed for users who prefer to use presets rather than
designing their own sounds. It comes with 1800 factory presets. Users
can edit the 12 easy parameters or the bypass states of layer global
effects assigned for each preset by the sound designer.
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Lexicon MPX-i Reverb: Lexicon’s
MPX-i Reverb delivers seven classic Lexicon plate, hall, chamber, and
room reverbs. A streamlined interface and 100 versatile, finely crafted
presets enable you to quickly get the sound you want. Input and output
metering let you monitor levels at a glance.
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Mäag Audio EQ2: Mäag
Audio EQ2 delivers the sound of the Mäag Audio EQ2 two-band hardware
equalizer. Mäag Audio’s EQ design allows for exceptionally low phase
shift across all EQ adjustments, which helps maintain the integrity of
your mix’s original sound while enhancing the very high “air”
frequencies. An input attenuator lets you normalize levels after
applying EQ.
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Melodics: Melodics
is the ultimate tool for developing your playing skills and building
better practice habits. Musicians around the world are using it to stay
motivated with their daily practice, work on their rhythm and timing,
and practice with music they love. Unlock an exclusive course of piano
lessons for free with your qualifying PreSonus product.
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Native Instruments REPLIKA: REPLIKA
packs two professional quality delays and a powerful diffusion
algorithm into a sleek, streamlined interface. Simple to use with a
resonant filter and classic phaser built in, REPLIKA is a versatile
delay for anything from subtle slapback to warped sheets of noise.
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Output Movement: Transform
any instrument, synth, raw sound or full track in real time with Output
Movement, an exciting effects plug-in for the studio or stage that adds
powerful rhythms to any input in real-time. Movement’s four rhythm
engines with sidechains, proprietary Flux mode, LFOs, step sequencers,
and macros blend seamlessly. Analog modeled effects optimized for
modulation let you add rhythm with reverb and compressors pumping,
filters and EQs opening and closing, delays morphing, and tube
distortion warming and cooling.
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- Soundsnap: Soundsnap
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