User`s guide

APOGEE ELECTRONICS
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Symphony PCI card – User’s Guide
Introduction
The Symphony 64 PCIe card is quite simply the most cost effective and exible way to connect Apogee
hardware interfaces to Apple Mac Pro computers. Additionally, Symphony 64 allows the interconnection
of Mac computers to create powerful digital audio networks.
Symphony 64 features include:
• Up to 128 channels of 24-bit 192 kHz I/O
• Extremely low system latency
• Supports Apogee Rosetta 800, Rosetta 200, AD-16X and DA-16X hardware
• Simple, one cable interface between any Apple Mac Pro and Apogee hardware
• Compatible with any CoreAudio application
• Apogee VBus - virtual routing within a CoreAudio application or between multiple applications.
• Apogee SBus - 32 channel per port, 192 kHz digital audio network between
Apple Macintosh computers
The system consists of:
• Symphony 64 PCIe card
• A compatible Apogee hardware interface equipped with an X-Symphony option card
• PC-32 cables between interfaces and to the Apple Mac Pro
• Apogee Maestro routing and low latency mixer application
System Requirements
• Apple Mac Pro computer, running OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.3 or greater.
• Minimum 2 GB of memory, 4 GB recommended.
• Apogee Rosetta 800, Rosetta 200, AD-16X, or DA-16X equipped with an X-Symphony option card
(the X-Symphony card must be running v2.0 rmware or greater).
 Pleaseseepages21-33forsupportedApogeehardwarecombinations.
Important Compatibility Information
• Symphony 64 and Symphony32 cards and drivers may not be installed on the same computer
• X-Symphony option cards must be running v2.7 rmware or greater.
• To connect a Symphony Mobile card to a Symphony 64 card via SBus, the Mobile system must be
running rmware, software and drivers dated October 2008 or later.