Symphony 64

What makes Symphony the best sounding, most powerful, most affordable pro audio production system ever?

The Legendary Sound Quality of Apogee Converters
Up to 64 Channels of I/O per card with the Symphony 64
Ultra low latency... 1.6 Milliseconds at 96kHz
Maximum Plug-in Processing with Apple's 8 Core Mac Pro
Cutting-edge Music Production with Apple's Logic Pro
SBus and VBus for Extended Audio Routing
A Complete Solution for the same price as the popular DSP core card

Legendary Sound Quality

Apogee X-Series and Rosetta Series Converters
Apogee’s award-winning X-Series and Rosetta Series converters are legendary for their ability to capture that instant in time when music and performance are most important. Your audio, your performance... defined by a converter that is an instrument of precision and art. Apogee technology delivers the most accurate representation of audio with all of the elusive subtleties which are so critical when mixing.

Massive Processing Power

Apple's Mac Pro
Apple’s 8-Core Intel Mac Pro is the muscle of The Symphony System and surpasses any combination of multi-DSP card-based systems in capability, affordability and value. The dynamic allocation of processor power, on an “as needed basis” means resources as and when you need them with processors and power to spare. If you are building a workstation, which will demand hundreds of plug-ins, power hungry reverbs and huge sampled instruments, The Apple “Mac Tower Of Power” is key and Symphony 64 is built to perform with the Mac Pro.

Highest Performance, Lowest Latency

Apogee Symphony 64 PCIe card
The core of the Symphony System is the Symphony 64 PCIe card. With the flexibility of up to 64 channels of input and output Symphony 64 doubles the amount of I/O previously available on one Symphony card. And, the Symphony PCIe driver design provides and elegant and rock solid connection capable of delivering incredibly low latency. The pairing of Symphony’s superior driver performance and the brute strength of Apple’s Mac Pro provides a superior foundation for any Core Audio based studio and sets the stage for advanced technologies like Symphony’s SBus and VBus.

Designed for Logic, Compatible with any Core Audio Application

Logic, the all-in-one DAW
Apple’s Logic is the creative center of The Symphony System and the provides the ultimate all-in-one DAW for music production, editing and mixing. With the included studio instruments, effects, and sound library you can create and build any sound you desire and record and edit live performances quickly and with precision. When it comes time to mix, Logic offers advanced and comprehensive tools to put the professional finish on any musical project. And even though Symphony is optimized for Logic, it's Native, so you can use Symphony with any Core Audio compliant application.

Maestro: Total Control

Conduct your Symphony System with Maestro
Maestro is an innovative and intuitive software interface that functions between OS X applications (OS 10.4 and above) and Apogee hardware. With Maestro you can control all Apogee hardware inputs and outputs connected to the computer by Symphony or Symphony Mobile. Create virtual routing paths between any Core Audio applications using VBus, send audio from Mac to Mac with SBus and adjust settings for extremely low latency performance.

Input & Output Routing

Maestro's Input and Output control panels allow for extensive routing between all Apogee hardware interfaces connected to Symphony or Symphony Mobile and Core Audio applications. This makes configuration easy and re-routing changes effortless.

VBus: Application Collaboration

Application to application routing
Maestro's VBus creates a virtual patch bay inside your Mac, allowing you to route demanding, stand-alone software instruments, directly into Logic or any Core Audio based application instead of running them as plug-ins. The result is a much more efficient use of RAM. VBus is also ideal for transferring audio from application to application. Seamlessly send sessions from DAW to DAW... right inside the box.

SBus: Multiple Towers of Power

Mac to Mac routing
Symphony’s SBus allows you to send digital audio directly between Symphony equipped Mac computers. Connect two Macs with a single cable and double the processing power of your studio.

Virtual effects rack: Route audio to your second Mac Pro, process it with your favorite plug-ins and send it back to your main DAW.
Sample library & soft-synth player: Store processor intensive sample libraries and soft-synths on a second Mac Pro and play the instruments and sounds from the DAW on your main Mac Pro via SBus and MIDI over LAN.
Audio and session transfer: Effortlessly send audio or entire sessions from one Mac to another between Core Audio based applications like Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Digital Performer, Nuendo and Ableton Live.

Cost and Investment

The Defining Moment in Next-Generation Audio Workstations is here… Symphony.
All of this next-generation performance is now available at a fraction of the cost of systems that rely on overpriced, under performing card-based technologies. The Symphony System provides a powerful foundation of scalability and flexibility and promotes open access to any native based solutions that may emerge, allowing you and your studio to have every advantage of modern music production.