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Apogee Symphony Desktop - Pro Audio Interface with Touch-Screen Display, Headphone Amp with Phantom Power for Recording, Live-Stream & Podcast, works with Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPad

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In this article and video, Luke Goddard looks at the Apogee Symphony Desktop, a premium audio interface that gives professionals high-end performance from a compact system that fits in your bag. 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. Logic Pro X and Symphony Desktop For the ultimate DualPath Link experience This emulation offers the lush, larger-than-life sounds of our 50s era Ampex 601 preamp, carefully restored and modded for lower noise and greater dynamic range. We’ve captured the harmonic warmth, richness and high-end sheen of the hardware, plus the “gently overcooked” sound of the overloading circuit. Hardware DSP and Native Plugin FX Run Apogee’s premium plugins on Symphony Desktop and in your DAW, No Hardware Required

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 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. Similar to Symphony I/O MkII, Symphony Desktop’s analog-to-digital convertor stage features ultra-low distortion, high-slew rate, fully differential analog op-amps plus a cutting edge A/D convertor in a performance-enhancing dual-sum configuration. Create with the confidence that every nuance of your analog input is faithfully reproduced in the digital domain. D/A Conversion - A widescreen window into your mix To conclude, the Apogee Symphony Desktop is a very nice piece of equipment in terms of its features, and above all its sound, delivering clarity and depth to anything you put through it.

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This still doesn’t quite match the level of native/DSP cooperation that is available in Pro Tools with the Hybrid Engine, or between LUNA and Apollo, and nor can Apogee call on the same huge libraries of third‑party plug‑ins that are available in the AAX and UAD formats. But their implementation has the big positive of being largely platform‑agnostic, meaning it should work pretty well in almost any DAW. In that respect, it bears some similarities to the Waves/DiGiCo SoundGrid system, except that SoundGrid is really optimised for much larger setups. D/A CONVERSION – The digital-to-analog stage of Symphony Desktop features brand new technology that provides uncompromising Symphony DAC performance in a portable product, including a robust ultra-low distortion, high-current, fully balanced output driver. Regardless of downstream connections, Symphony Desktop delivers a transparent, widescreen window into the sonic landscape of your mix. Advantages: Simplest way to get a sound and not print FX in your recording Commit and Print While you Record The full review of the Apogee Symphony Desktop can be found in the May 2022 issue of Sound On Sound, as well as here.

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?

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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" So, if you were wondering if you could record a multi-mic'd drumkit with Symphony Desktop – the answer is yes, with an ADAT expander!

Variable impedance settings on both mic and instrument inputs optimize their input stage to match your specific deviceInspired 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. American Tube - Lush, 50s tone Registered office: V12 Retail Finance Limited, Yorke House, Arleston Way, Solihull, B90 4LH. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The Apogee Symphony Desktop is a desktop audio interface for Windows, Mac, or iPad Pro that brings the company’s Symphony converter technology into a sleek textured aluminium desktop-style enclosure. It’s operated via a TFT touchscreen interface in concert with a large rotary knob, giving the user intuitive “point-and-turn” control of all parameters. Apogee Control 2 software in non-beta form with its full functionality on Macs (including M1 Apple Silicon) & Windows 10 PCs All 3 workflows fully functional in the ACFX plugin wrapper: Print FX, Monitor FX, and DualPath Link

Included ECS Channel Strip plug-in works in tandem with the microphone preamp emulations, arming you with a range of sonic colors You can also control the ECS channel strip on the hardware, that's the DSP version that can be used for the print and monitor effects options in the forthcoming software release. This touchscreen affords access to all of the same settings you would typically find in control panel software. So, you can set input and output levels, manage routing and monitoring, and even configure the Symphony’s built-in preamp models and channel strip, which run on the unit’s internal DSP, all from the touchscreen. Optionale VST-Effekte: Es ist zwar richtig, dass die integrierten VST-Effekte während der Aufnahme nur als Print angewendet werden können, jedoch bietet Apogee die Möglichkeit, diese VST-Effekte nachträglich für 500 Euro zu erwerben. Dies eröffnet umfassende Bearbeitungsmöglichkeiten und ermöglicht es Benutzern, ihren Sound nach Belieben anzupassen.However, in cases where the same manufacturer makes both DAW and interface, it can be possible to integrate the two much more closely. Avid’s Hybrid Engine, for example, automatically switches between DSP and native versions of a plug‑in depending on whether it is in a live input monitoring path or not, and UA’s LUNA has similar capabilities. The new interface has a compact, solidly built wedge-shaped enclosure finished with an aluminium powder coating that gives an attractive, silvery sheen. The stylishness is enhanced by a minimalist control panel featuring just a single dial and a large touchscreen. Apogee is excited to announce the Release of software version 1.19 for Symphony Desktop, its flagship home studio audio interface. This release features the Apogee Control Software and the Apogee Channel FX Plugin which allows you to set up a hybrid DSP+Native workflow from your DAW using the DualPath Link mode. What’s Included in Release 1.19 Unique hardware-software integration with Apple Logic Pro X gives you an incredibly streamlined workflow

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