Apogee has announced Symphony Desktop. A more affordable Apogee computer audio interface with all-new Alloy Mic Preamp emulation processing, which promises to give you the warmth and tone of British Solid State and American Tube analog preamps.
The Apogee Alloy Mic Preamp (AMP) emulation offers analog circuitry plus DSP processing. Critical aspects of each preamp model such as input impedance, transient profile and distortion characteristics are first implemented in the analog domain, followed by accurate refinement in DSP. Included with Symphony Desktop is the New Symphony ECS Channel Strip – Tuned by Bob Clearmountain. Symphony ECS includes EQ, Compression and Saturation controls that let you create the optimal blend of channel FX for tracking vocals or acoustic instruments.
Symphony Desktop for Mac and Windows packs the legendary audio quality of Apogee’s rack-mount Symphony I/O Mk II into an elegant, portable 10 IN x 14 OUT desktop interface. With Symphony Desktop, musicians and producers are empowered to record, overdub and mix with the music industry’s most respected AD/DA converters and mic preamps. 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 circuit optimization and analog and digital components to consistently improve the performance of our products.
Apogee Symphony Desktop Features:
» Flagship Symphony Sound Quality
» 10 IN x 14 OUT simultaneous channels of audio
» Cutting edge components and circuit design deliver detailed and pristine sound quality
» A/D & D/A Resolution up to 24bit/192kHz
» 2 Advanced Stepped Gain mic preamps, up to 75dB of gain, variable impedance
» Apogee Alloy Mic Preamp emulation (Analog processing + DSP modeling)
» Built-in hardware DSP processing of Apogee FX Rack plugins
» Includes British Solid State mic preamp emulation
» Includes 50s American Tube mic preamp emulation
» Includes Symphony ECS Channel Strip – Native and hardware DSP versions with EQ, Compression and Saturation
» Includes Symphony Reverb – Native version
» Flexible, low latency plugin workflows: Print, Monitor and DualPath Link
» One Instrument input with variable impedance and colored FET input stage for electric guitar
» Analog Inputs: 2 x XLR-1/4″ combi (mic/line), 1 x 1/4″ (Hi-Z)
» Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4″ (monitor)
» Two assignable headphone outputs: 1 x 1/4″, 1 x 1/8”
» Digital I/O: 2 x Optical Toslink (ADAT,S/PDIF)
» Computer Connectivity: USB over type C Connector
» Dynamic touch screen display for comprehensive hardware control
» Software control: Symphony Desktop Control application
» MIDI over USB
» Compatible with iPad Pro, iOS 13
With Symphony Desktop and Apogee FX, there’s no need to adapt your creative workflow to the restrictions of your audio interface and plugins, you choose the way you want to work. Print and Dual Path link modes utilize Symphony Desktop’s hardware DSP processing to provide zero-latency monitoring when tracking. Dual Path Link mode adds unique flexibility to adjust FX applied to the track later in the mix, eliminating the need to commit to printing FX when recording. Thanks to unique hardware-software integration in Logic Pro X, users can take further advantage of Apogee’s FX Rack and DualPath Monitoring workflows with the Logic Pro X Direct Button and Audio Device Control view, all adjustable from a single window in Logic.
System Requirements:
» MacOS 10.12 or later, Quad Core i7 Processor or higher
» PC: Windows 10 Anniversary update or later, Quad Core i7 Processor or higher
Apogee’s Symphony Desktop costs $1299. Apogee’s Symphony Desktop FX Complete (includes Pultec EQP-1A, Pultec MEQ-5, ModEQ 6, ModComp and Opto-3A plug-ins) will set you back $1399. Both will be available in the next few months.
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