Apogee has announced the Symphony Desktop, a DSP-based, 10-in/14-out audio interface designed to blend the sound quality of the existing Symphony I/O MkII with the simplicity of the company’s Duet and Quartet interfaces.
Apogee CEO and president Betty Bennett says, “We listened to our customers and the market about the desire for Symphony sound quality and the ability to choose your workflow in one interface. We have combined patented technologies developed over the past three years with new features to create the ultimate interface, Symphony Desktop. At $1299.00 Symphony quality is within your reach.”
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 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 create a blend of channel FX for tracking vocals or acoustic instruments.
For just $100 more, Symphony Desktop FX Complete includes DualPath and native versions of Apogee’s EQP-1A, Pultec MEQ-5, ModEQ 6, ModComp and Opto-3A plugins.
Print and Dual Path link modes utilize Symphony Desktop’s hardware DSP processing to provide very low latency monitoring when tracking. Dual Path Link mode adds flexibility to adjust FX applied to the track later in the mix, eliminating the need to commit to printing FX when recording.
With hardware-software integration in Logic Pro X, users can take 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.
