Apogee Electronics Symphony 64 PCIe

Symphony 64 is a 64 channel, 24bit/192kHz PCI Express card made to interface Apogee’s X-Series and Rosetta Series converters directly to Apple’s Mac Pro creating The Symphony System.

Symphony 64 features Extended Audio Routing with VBus and SBus technology. VBus allows users to route demanding, stand-alone software instruments, directly between Core Audio based applications, instead of running them as plug-ins. Symphony’s SBus doubles the DSP power of The Symphony System by facilitating the communication of digital audio between Symphony equipped Macs with a single cable. Now it is possible to route audio to a second computer and back again for plug-in processing, sample libraries, soft-synth players, and session transfers from one Core Audio application to another.

Availability: NOW SHIPPING Price: $995*

*Upgrade Program Apogee is offering an upgrade program to customers who have purchased a Symphony PCI-e card between the dates of August 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. All that qualify for the program can upgrade to Symphony 64 directly thru Apogee for $295.

Symphony 64 at a glance:

* 64 channels of 24-bit 192kHz Digital I/O per card
* Up to 128 channels of I/O per Mac Pro
* Near zero latency performance
* Connects directly to Apogee’s X-Series and Rosetta Series converters via the X-Symphony option card
* Apogee’s VBus – virtual routing within a Core Audio application or between multiple applications.
* Apogee’s SBus – 32 channel, 192kHz digital audio network between two Mac computers
* Apogee’s Maestro Software for advanced control and routing
* Compatibility with any Core Audio application

For more information, visit their web site at www.apogeedigital.com.