Focusrite has unveiled a new super-limited-edition blue version of its widely popular Scarlett 2i2 audio interface, in celebration of its 40th anniversary.

Boasting the High Wycombe, UK brand’s famous ISA blue colourway – which first featured on the ISA 110 and 130 modules Rupert Neve once created for Sir George Martin – the 40th Anniversary Scarlett 2i2 also sports Focusrite’s historic ff logo, and each unit is presented in a limited-edition black-and-gold gift box.

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In addition to the standard Scarlett software collection which comes with the latest Focusrite Scarlett interfaces – including Pro Tools Intro+ for Focusrite, Ableton Live Lite and FL Studio Producer Edition – the Anniversary edition also includes three premium plugins.

These are: Sonnox Voca, an “intuitive all-in-one toolkit for vocal production”; Acustica Audio Rust, a recreation of the hand-built EQs that defined Motown; and Softube Opto Compressor, for adding natural warmth via classic optical tube compressor modelling.

“It’s fitting that we should celebrate the 40th year of the Focusrite brand by adding a limited edition to the fourth-generation Scarlett range,” says Phil Dudderidge OBE, Focusrite Chairman and Founder.

“In its usual livery, Scarlett acknowledges the original Red Range, which brought colour to the racks of monochrome outboard. This Anniversary Edition is blue, in celebration of our original house colour. Focusrite, in either guise, has always been about bringing colour to the music!”

Otherwise, the 40th Anniversary Scarlett 2i2 is the same as the current 4th Gen Scarlett 2i2, with 4th-Generation mic preamps boasting a massive 69dB gain range, Hi-Z instrument and line inputs, and the same studio-grade converters found on Focusrite’s flagship RedNet interfaces.

The 40th Anniversary Scarlett 2i2 is available for $229.99/£219.99. For more information, head to Focusrite.

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