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For the musician, producer, or engineer who demands excellence in a portable, expandable footprint, the Apogee Symphony Desktop promises to deliver. What Do I Get With The Apogee Symphony Desktop? With Symphony ECS you have 3 characters to choose from. Symphony, American Tube and British Solid State. The profile of each is matched to the built-in mic pre and mic pre emulations. You can also mix and match to your sonic sensibilities. Print, DualPath Link and Native workflow The Apogee Symphony Desktop is a premium 10-in 12-out audio interface for the discerning musician or engineer. The whole thing is built into a lovely aluminium case and the unit is controlled using a TFT touch -screen interface. The Symphony desktop promises to deliver premium results on anything that you put through it with the whole emphasis being on quality.
Apogee Channel FX plugins wrapper available on every Optical Input with full functionality and all 3 workflows.This is arguably one of the most important questions about an interface. We can tell you now that Symphony Desktop has a total of 10 audio inputs & 14 audio outputs. Like every product in the Symphony line, Symphony Desktop benefits from Apogee’s core mission to design the finest performing audio interfaces using cutting edge analog and digital components, carefully selected by ear. While others cut costs and rely on conventional design approaches, we use innovative components and circuit optimization to consistently improve the performance of our products A/D Conversion - Faithfully capture every nuance
NOTE:When installing the the Symphony Mk II 3.10 driver you will be prompted to update firmware. This firmware update does not apply and should be ignored. Do NOT run the firmware updater if prompted. The Symphony Desktop’s DSP resources are finite, and a percentage readout informs you how much capacity is used at any given time. My tests suggest that it would be difficult if not impossible to max it out using only the two analogue inputs; however, Print FX and Monitor FX are also available for the digital inputs, and some DSP economy is probably advisable if you want to use them across eight or 10 channels simultaneously. It’s not possible to use the Symphony Desktop’s DSP at mixdown within your DAW, as you can with Universal Audio’s UAD plug‑ins for example.
The third thing that I really like about the Apogee Symphony Desktop is the sound, it's clean, it's transparent and it imparts absolutely nothing especially when you use the built in Symphony desktop, mic pre, which is the unmodeled option. The unit does come with a Neve style pre and also a tube style pre, but for me, the whole point of the unit is it's unparalleled quality. So the sound quality is excellent and using the built in SD, mic pre really does the business for me. AP-66 is based on the vintage Class A solid-state Neve 1066 preamp, and apes the original’s pleasing low-mid character and slight compression of higher frequency transients. The alternative AP-57 model is based on an Ampex 601 tube preamp from the 50s, and oozes with analogue warmth and saturation. By combining superior performance, with new features like mic preamp emulation, the Symphony ECS Channel Strip plugin and ultra low latency recording with hardware DSP and Apogee native FX plugins, Symphony Desktop will amplify your creativity in your studio or on the go and give your recordings the Apogee sound quality Advantage. You’d expect an interface costing this much to sound good, and the Symphony Desktop has impeccable audio credentials. The preamps offer 75dB of digitally controlled gain with a highly impressive EIN figure of -129dB unweighted. A-weighted dynamic range on the inputs and outputs is 123 and 129dB respectively, while Apogee’s “zero Ohm” headphone outputs also promise —and deliver — excellent quality. This level of audio performance is still relatively unusual in a desktop interface, but the Symphony Desktop really does come within spitting distance of Apogee’s flagship modular Symphony I/O" With Symphony Desktop you have a range of intuitive hardware and software control options. From the touch screen and control knob on the device, to the control app on your computer to the focused input and monitor control plugin for your DAW, you can easily access the settings you need to stay in your creative groove. Designed to redefine professional portable recording
British Solid State - Class A console sound Inspired by the Marinar “Round can” input transformer and discrete transistor design of our Class A Neve 1066 mic preamp, this emulation gives you the sonic weight and smooth transient response of the hardware. Push the level for increased width and punch.With Symphony Desktop, the Apogee Control Software and the Apogee Channel FX plugin, you can set up a variety of workflows that offer low-latency recording, maximum CPU efficiency, easy collaboration and the option to print or just monitor plugins in your projects. Plus, you can use Apogee plugins with or without Symphony Desktop connected to your computer. DSP + Native Plugins for Hybrid Recording
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