Symphony Desktop
Flagship Sound Quality. Vintage Preamp Emulation. Hardware DSP with Premium Native Plugins. Immersive Touch Screen Interface.
Product Highlights
- Most affordable Symphony series interface ever
- Cutting edge components and circuit design deliver flagship sound quality
- 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
- MIDI over USB
- Digital I/O: 2 x Optical Toslink (ADAT,S/PDIF)
- USB 2.0 over USB Type C connector
- Overview
- Tech Specs
Put the Sound of a Symphony on Your Desk
ymphony Desktop for Mac, iPad Pro and Windows packs the legendary sound quality of Apogee’s rack-mount Symphony I/O Mk II into an elegant and inspiring 10×10 audio interface that sits on your desk and fits in your bag. With Symphony Desktop, musicians and producers are empowered to record, overdub and mix with the music industry’s most respected AD/DA converters and mic preamps. By combining superior performance, with new features like mic preamp emulation, the Symphony ECS Channel Strip and Clearmountain’s Spaces reverb plugins, ultra low latency recording with hardware DSP and Apogee native FX plugins, Symphony Desktop will amplify your creativity in your studio or on the go and give your recordings the Apogee sound quality Advantage.
| A/D Conversion | |
| Max input level (+4dBu ref/Mic) | +20dBu |
| Max input level (-10dBV ref) | +6dBV |
| Input impedance | 4KOhm |
| Freq resp 10 Hz -20Khz | > +/-0.2dB (@44.1Khz) |
| Rel. THD + N | -113dB |
| Dyn. Range | 123dB (A-weighted) |
| 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) |
| Preamps | |
| Gain | Up to 75 dB and advanced stepped gain circuit design |
| 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 |
Compatibility
- macOS: 10.13 High Sierra or later
- iOS/iPad pro: iOS 13
- PC: Windows 10 Anniversary update or later
