Apogee Symphony Desktop USB Audio Interface

Apogee Symphony Desktop Audio Interface:

Apogee Symphony Desktop for Mac, iPad Pro, and Windows offers the outstanding sound quality of Apogee’s rack-mount Symphony I/O Mk II in a beautiful and portable 10×14 audio interface. With Symphony Desktop, artists and producers may record, overdub, and mix using the music industry’s most trusted AD/DA converters and mic preamps.

Apogee Symphony Desktop will amplify your creativity in the studio or on the go by combining superior performance with new features such as mic preamp emulation, the Symphony ECS Channel Strip plugin, and ultra-low latency recording with hardware DSP and Apogee native FX plugins.

Features of the Apogee Symphony:

• The Apogee Symphony series interface is now more affordable than ever, with cutting-edge components and circuit design that provide detailed and pure flagship sound quality.
• Two advanced stepped-gain mic preamps with variable impedance and up to 75 dB of gain. The FET instrument input has electric guitar tube amp characteristics.
• Apogee Alloy Mic Preamp Emulation (Analog Processing + DSP Modeling) Includes British State and 1950s American Tube.
• Built-in hardware DSP processing for Apogee FX Rack plugins
• Includes hardware and Bob Clearmountain’s (native) Symphony ECS Channel Strip tuning DSP versions, including EQ, compression, and saturation.
• Includes Symphony Reverb (native version).
• Print, monitor, and DualPath Link plugin operations are flexible and have minimal latency.
• Dynamic touch-screen display for complete hardware control.
• Two perfectly balanced 1/4″ outputs.
• There are two assignable headphone outputs: one 1/4″ and one 1/8″ with a 10 IN x 14 OUT connection. Multi-channel audio and MIDI over USB.
• Digital I/O: 2 x optical toslink (ADAT, S/PDIF).
• USB 2.0 using a USB Type C connection.

Included Apogee FX Plug-Ins:

• Apogee Symphony ECS Channel Strip with Bob Clearmountain-tuned EQ, compressor, and saturation (both native and hardware DSP versions).
• Symphony Reverb (Includes Native Version)
• Pultec EQP-1A, MEQ-5, and Mod EQ-6 equalizers (hardware DSP versions).
• Opto 3-A and Mod Comp compressors (hardware DSP version)

Emulations for microphone preamps are included

• British Solid state: Class-A console sound inspired by the Marinair round-can input transformer and discrete transistor design of the Class-A Neve 1066 mic preamp
• American Tube: rich, vintage-style tone inspired by a 1950s Ampex 601 preamp that was rebuilt and tweaked for lower noise and a wider dynamic range.

Flexible Plug-In Workflows

• Apogee Symphony ECS provides you with access to all Apogee workflow possibilities. You can print through it while recording for zero-latency tracking
• Set up a DualPath Link for monitoring and printing later when you mix. Or simply utilize Symphony ECS as a native plug-in in your DAW, with no Apogee gear required.

Box Content:

• 1 x unit
• Apogee FX plugins are to be bought separately.