Symphony 64: A Guided Tour
Posted on: August 15, 2008
Posted in: Products, Symphony, Video
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Take a guided tour of Apogee’s Symphony System featuring the new Symphony 64 PCIe card for up to 64 channels of I/O per card at incredibly low latency using X-Series and Rosetta Series converters. Also learn about Symphony’s exciting new features, SBus and VBus, for routing audio between Mac Pro’s and between Core Audio applications.
Related Apogee Gear
Symphony
AD-16X & DA-16X
Rosetta Series
Video Transcript
“The symphony system combines a legendary sound quality of Apogee audio interfaces, the groundbreaking power of Apple’s mac pro computers, and the advanced audio production capabilities of apple’s logic pro studio. The result is the most professional, innovative and affordable audio work station available.”
“The processing power of the Mac Pro and the efficient design of the symphony audio driver work together to deliver incredibly low latency, an extremely high channel count, and an unprecedented plug-in performance.”
“And now, the symphony system is more powerful than ever. Introducing Symphony 64. The latest PCIE audio interface card from Apogee. Symphony 64 doubles the amount of I/O of the previous symphony PCIE card allowing you to be more flexible in your I/O configurations. Symphony 64 also includes Apogee’s new s-bus technology . S bus makes low latency audio communication between mac pro computers a reality. From a basic 2 or 8 channel setup using Apogee’s rosetta series converters, to a larger multi channel system fronted by the award winning AD and DA16x converters, Symphony 64 empowers you to create your own Symphony and configure the exact work station to fit your needs.”
“V-bus creates a virtual patch-bay inside your computer from one core audio based application to another. This configuration will maximize RAM performance by allowing your sample playback software and your main DAW software to run as separate applications. And with VBus you can easily do a real time transfer of audio tracks from one DAW to another, or simply send your audio back and forth right inside the box.”
“Symphony 64’s second connection port not only doubles the amount of I/O that can be connected to a Symphony card, it also makes way for an exciting new feature. S-Bus. Apogee’s S-bus technology creates a musical bridge between Symphony equipped Mac pro, and Mac Book pro computers. This extended audio routing opens up the possibilities of your DAW exponentially by making it possible to leverage the processing power of multiple macs in one DAW environment.”
“Store your entire sample library. Processor intensive soft synths and plug ins on a second Mac Pro freeing up your primary computers hard drive, CPU and memory. Or send tracks from any core audio compliant app, like Final Cut Pro, Digital Performer, Nuendo or Ableton Live directly into a Logic session. Sbus makes audio connections between macs seem simple, sophisticated, and solid.”
“As you can see, the possibilities are endless, now you can truly build your ultimate native work station with Symphony. Up to 64 channels of I/O on a single card, Sbus and Vbus technology, lowest latency speck of any native system, built to utilize the power of Apple’s Mac pro computer, world class performance and sound quality that only Apogee can deliver.”