14 DAY TRIAL // A digital audio workstation, also known as "DAW", is a system designed to record, edit and, of course, play digital audio. A key feature of such a system is its ability to manipulate freely all the recorded sounds, the same way a word processor manipulates words that you type. Today, I got a computer-based DAW for you that has just been presented to the public at this week's International Music Products Association show by Apogee Digital...
The product I am talking about is called Symphony Mobile System, and is a 32 channel ExpressCard for the MacBook Pro designed to offer an easy to use portable audio workstation that's easy to carry around and use with your laptop computer. According to its producer, the Apogee Symphony Mobile System is "the world's first, state-of-the-art, professional Native audio workstation for your laptop" able to offer up to 32 channels of extremely low latency I/O.
All you have to do in order to use this device is to insert it into your MacBook Pro, connect the X-Series or Rosetta Series converters and you're ready to rock and roll! If you are a professional wondering about the numbers, here you go - at 96K, this system has a latency 1.6 miliseconds from analog source into analog source out and the maximum 32 channels available can handle 24-bit 192K Digital I/O.
The Symphony Mobile offers direct connectivity to Apogee's Rosetta 800, 200, AD-16X and DA-16X converters by using the optional X-Symphony card. Fully compatible with any CoreAudio software application, this device comes with Apogee's Maestro Software for advanced control and routing and is compatible with any Apple MacBook Pro. Its price is 595$ and is going to be available for purchase this March.