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Symphony Desktop

SYMPHONY DESKTOP - STUDIO DESKTOP INTERFACE Record, overdub, and mix with the legendary sound quality of Apogee’s rack-mount Symphony I/O Mk II in an elegant and inspiring 10×14 audio interface that sits on your desk and fits in your bag.

• Flagship Sound Quality
• Vintage Preamp Emulation
• Hardware DSP with Premium Native Plugins
• Immersive Touch Screen Interface

Put the Sound of a Symphony on Your Desk

Simplified Setup, Flagship Sound

The Symphony Desktop features the same high-quality conversion as the Symphony I/O Mk II, but without the rackmount setup.

Mix without the Mouse

Select your favorite mic preamp modeler, or shape your sound with onboard plugins with Symphony Desktop’s Touch Screen Control.

Creative Flexibility

DualPath Monitoring allows you to either to print your plugin FX as you record, or monitor them while keeping your raw take. Save and recall presets of your favorite plugin chains to speed up your workflow.

Classic Preamp Sounds

Apogee Alloy Preamp emulation combines analog circuitry and DSP processing to create authentic preamp modeling.

Features

• Most affordable Symphony series interface ever
• Cutting edge components and circuit design deliver flagship sound quality
• Up to 24bit/192kHz digital audio
• 2 Advanced Stepped Gain mic preamps
• FET instrument input with electric guitar tube amp characteristics
• Apogee Alloy Mic Preamp emulation (Analog processing + DSP modeling)
• Built-in hardware DSP processing of Apogee FX plugins
• Flexible, zero latency plugin workflows: Print, Monitor and DualPath Link workflows
• Dynamic touch screen display for comprehensive hardware control
• 2 fully balanced 1/4″ outputs
• 2 assignable headphone outputs: 1 x 1/4″, 1 x 1/8”
• 10 IN x 14 OUT simultaneous channels of audio
• Digital I/O: 2 x Optical Toslink (ADAT,S/PDIF)
• USB 2.0 over USB Type C connector

Specification

Preamps:

• Gain: Up to 75 dB and advanced stepped gain circuit design
• Selectable 48v phantom power, Soft Limit and polarity invert
• EIN: 129dB (un-weighted) @ 60dB, 150 Ohm input
• Max input level: +20dBu
• Input impedance: 150 – 4K Ohm (default)
• Max Hi-Z input level: 14dBu
• Hi-Z input impedance: 220k/470k/>20M Ohm

D/A Conversion:

• Max output level (+4dBu ref): +20dBu
• Max output level (-10dBV ref): +6dBV
• Line output impedance: 50 Ohm
• Freq resp 10Hz -20 Khz: > +/- 0.05dB (@44.1Khz)
• Rel. THD+N : -114dB
• Dyn Range: 129dB (A-weighted)
• Headphone Max output level:— 520mW into 30 Ohm — 90mW into 600 Ohm
• Headphone Rel THD+N: -111 dB with 600 Ohm load
• Headphone Dyn Range: 128dB (A-weighted)