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User's Guide
V2 -
May 2011

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  • Page 1 PCIe Card for Apogee Interfaces User’s Guide V2 - May 2011...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ......................2-10 ...................2 Check the Package Contents .............2-3 Install the Symphony 64 Card / Jumper Settings ..........4-5 Connect the Symphony 64 PCIe card to Apogee Interfaces ............6-7 Word Clock Connections - Multiple Apogee Interfaces ....................8 Install Software and Drivers ......................8 Initial Configuration ..............10...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    • X-Symphony option cards must be running v2.7 firmware or greater. • To connect a Symphony Mobile card to a Symphony 64 card via SBus, the Mobile system must be running firmware, software and drivers dated October 2008 or later.

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    Install the Symphony 64 PCIe Card Before installing Symphony 64 cards in your Mac, it’s necessary to configure the cards as “Master” or “Slave 1” by placing jumpers across headers J9 and J10, as shown in the diagrams below.
  • Page 7 Don’t force the card into place. • If you’re installing two Symphony 64 PCIe cards, install the “Master” card in the slot closest to the video card slot. PCI bracket...

  • Page 8: Connect The Symphony 64 Pcie Card To Apogee Interfaces

    Connect the Symphony 64 PCIe card to Apogee Interfaces Because of the wide range of Apogee interfaces that may be connected to your Symphony 64 card, the details of how hardware interfaces connect to the cards vary according to the specific set of interfaces in use. Please consult the list of supported hardware combinations per Symphony 64 port beginning on page 21, and find the combination page that corresponds to your set of Apogee interfaces.
  • Page 9 Shown below are the PC-32 connections, required settings, and resultant routing when connecting 2 AD-16X and 2 DA-16Xs to the Symphony 64 card’s first port. Of course, it’s possible to connect only 1 AD and DA, in which case software inputs SymIn and outputs SymOut 17-32 have no hardware connection (though they appear in the input/output list of your software).

  • Page 10: Word Clock Connections Multiple Apogee Interfaces

    (WC). Verify that all interfaces are running at the desired sample rate. • As configured, the Apogee hardware will follow the sample rate of the Mac. Option 2 - Using an External Master Clock (such as Apogee’s Big Ben)
  • Page 11 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Option 1 Correct clocking configuration to the master device’s clock output using BNC “T“ connectors O U T O U T O U T O U T Option 2 Optimum clocking configuration using BIG BEN...

  • Page 12: Install Software And Drivers

    Follow the onscreen directions provided by the installer program. Following installation, you will be required to restart your Mac. Apogee’s Maestro software, offering advanced routing and low latency mixing, will be installed in the Mac’s Ap- plications folder. Please see pages 34-51 for a description of Maestro and its functions.
  • Page 13 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Figure A Figure B CHANNELS 1-32 CHANNELS 33-64 Symphony64 PORT 3 PORT 4 CHANNELS 1-32 CHANNELS 33-64 Symphony64 PORT 1 PORT 2 Figure C...

  • Page 14: Configure Symphony 64 With Apple Logic Pro 8

    Apogee Maestro software, are the two settings that determine the audio latency through your Symphony system. When using Symphony 64 and a Mac Pro, verify that Performance Tuning is set to High Performance. The I/O Buffer Size should be set as low as possible without causing digital audio artifacts such as clicks and pops.
  • Page 15 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Figure A Figure B...

  • Page 16: Using Symphony Sbus To Interconnect Apple Computers

    Using Symphony's SBus to Interconnect Apple Macintosh Computers In addition to the wide range of hardware interfaces that may be connected to the Symphony 64 card, it’s possible to interconnect two Symphony 64 cards installed in separate computers. Each interconnected port offers 32 chan- nels of bidirectional digital audio.
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  • Page 18: Configuring Multiple Macs With Sbus

    Set the sample rate of both Macs to the same frequency. This may be done by opening a DAW session or by opening the OSX utility Audio MIDI Setup, setting Properties For to Symphony 64, and setting Format to the desired sample rate.
  • Page 19 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Figure A PRIMARY MAC Symphony64 Slave1 CHANNELS 1-32 Slave1 CHANNELS 33-64 1-32 33-64 Interfaces or SBus Interfaces or SBus Symphony64 Master CHANNELS 33-64 Master CHANNELS 1-32 1-32 33-64 At least one hardware interface...
  • Page 20 As shown at right, the required PC-32 connections are 1) from the hardware interfaces to the Mac Pro’s Sympho- ny 64 Channels 1-32 port and 2) from the MacBook Pro’s Symphony Mobile card to the Mac Pro’s Symphony 64 Channels 33-64 port.
  • Page 21 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - 2 AD-16Xs, 2 DA-16Xs (Standard Routing), Mac Pro, MacBook Pro PC-32 Connections HARDWARE I/O MAC PRO 1 MACBOOK PRO CHANN E LS 1-3 2 C HA N N E L S 3 3-64...

  • Page 22: Troubleshooting

    (Chs 1-32), open System Profiler (Applications > Utilities), click on the Hardware disclosure triangle, click on PCIe Cards, and verify that Symphony 64 appears in the Card list, and that “Yes” appears under the Driver Installed column (see the System Profiler window at right).
  • Page 23 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS BLUE LED (Master) FLASHING Card is Slave, clock is Card is Master, clock Undefined correctly configured is correctly configured WHITE LED FLASHING Card is Master, Card is Slave, Symphony driver not (Clock)
  • Page 24 MIDI Setup. Open Audio MIDI Setup (found in Applications > Utilities) and set Properties For to Symphony 64. The settings Clock Source and Source will then become accessible. Symptom - I see the following error message on my Mac screen: “No hardware has been detected on the (primary/secondary) port of Symphony card(s) x.”...

  • Page 25: Hardware Interface Combinations

    Listed from this page to page 33 are all the supported combinations of Apogee hardware interfaces per port. If you have more than four interfaces to connect, distribute them across multiple Symphony 64 ports so that each group of interfaces connected to each port is a supported combination.

  • Page 26: Ad-16X, 1 Da-16X

    Hardware Combinations - 1 AD-16X, 1 DA-16X (Standard or Advanced Routing) With one AD-16X and one DA-16X connected to one Symphony 64 port, it’s possible to run both hardware interfaces in either Standard or Advanced routing. The diagrams at the bottom of this page depicts the differ- ence between the two modes.

  • Page 27: Rosetta 800S

    Hardware Combinations - 1 to 4 Rosetta 800s One to four Rosetta 800s may be connected to each Symphony 64 port. Note that your software application will always detect 32 inputs and outputs regardless of the number of Rosetta 800s connected.

  • Page 28: Ad-16X, 1Da-16X (Std Routing), Rosetta 800

    Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - AD-16X, DA-16X (Standard Routing only), Rosetta 800 This combination offers 24 analog inputs and 24 analog outputs. Note that software inputs and outputs 25-32 will appear in your DAW software, though they are unused.

  • Page 29: Ad-16Xs (Std Or Adv Routing)

    Hardware Combinations - 1-2 AD-16Xs (Standard or Advanced Routing) To add only analog inputs (and digital outputs), it’s possible to connect 1 or 2 AD-16Xs to a Symphony 64 port, for 16 analog inputs and 16 digital outputs per port. When the AD-16Xs are set to Standard routing, only the analog inputs are active;...

  • Page 30: Da-16Xs (Std Or Adv Routing)

    Hardware Combinations - 1-2 DA-16Xs (Standard or Advanced Routing) To add only analog outputs (and digital inputs) to a Symphony 64 system, it’s possible to connect 1 or 2 DA- 16Xs to a Symphony 64 port for 16 analog outputs and 16 digital inputs per port. When the DA-16Xs are set to Standard routing, only the analog outputs are active;...

  • Page 31: Rosetta 800, 1 Ad-16X (Std Routing)

    Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - Rosetta 800, AD-16X (Standard Routing Only) This combination offers 24 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs.To allow the routing of software outputs 1-2 to hardware analog outputs, connect the Rosetta 800 first, then the AD-16X. Note that software inputs and outputs 9-16 aren’t used, though they appear in your software program.

  • Page 32: Ad-16X (Std Or Adv Routing), Rosetta 800

    Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - 1 AD-16X (Standard or Advanced Routing), Rosetta 800 This combination offers 24 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs.To allow the routing of software outputs 1-2 to hardware digital outputs, connect the AD-16X (in Advanced routing) first, then the Rosetta 800.

  • Page 33: Rosetta 800, 1 Da-16X (Std Routing)

    Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - Rosetta 800, DA-16X (Standard Routing Only) This combination offers 24 analog outputs and 8 analog inputs. If you prefer that software inputs 1-8 are analog inputs, connect the Rosetta 800 first. Note that software inputs/outputs 9-16 aren’t used, though they appear in your software program.

  • Page 34: Da-16X (Std Or Adv Routing), Rosetta 800

    Symphony PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - DA-16X (Standard or Advanced Routing), Rosetta 800 This combination offers 24 analog outputs and 8 analog inputs. When the DA-16X is connected first, the Rosetta 800 may be clocked from the DA-16X.

  • Page 35: Mac Pros, 1 Ad-16X + 1Da-16X Per Mac

    Symphony PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - 2 Mac Pros, 1 AD-16X, 1 DA-16X per Mac This combination depicts the interconnection of two Mac Pros, each being connected to a pair of AD-16X/ DA-16X hardware interfaces. As long as both systems are running at the same sample rate, they can be operated independently.

  • Page 36: Ad-16Xs, 8 Da-16Xs (Std Routing)

    Hardware Combinations - 8 AD-16Xs, 8 DA-16Xs (Standard Routing only) This combination shows the maximum number of AD-16X and DA-16X interfaces that may be connected to two Symphony 64 PCI cards. Such a system offers 128 channels of analog inputs and 128 channels of analog outputs.
  • Page 37 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Hardware Combinations - 8 AD-16Xs, 8 DA-16Xs (Standard Routing only) STANDARD ROUTING HARDWARE I/0 SOFTWARE IN SOFTWARE OUT A D - 16 X ANALOG IN 1-16 SymIn 1-16 D A- 16 X...

  • Page 38: Maestro

    Interface Drop Down Menu – The Interface drop down menu, found in the upper left corner of each Mae- stro window, is used to select the Apogee interface whose settings are displayed in the Maestro window. Details of the Interface drop down menu are shown below:...
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  • Page 40: Maestro Control Window

    Performance Tuning allows the adjustment of Symphony driver buffers to take advantage of the latest Intel Macs’ increased CPU power. Set Performance Tuning to High Performance when using Symphony 64 on an Intel Mac. This reduces buffer sizes and ensures the lowest latency through the Symphony system.
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  • Page 42: Input And Output Panes

    For example, when hardware synths are connected to the hardware inputs of an Apogee interface, it’s possible to mix these synths using the Maestro mixer and record the mix in your software application by assigning either the Mixer A In or Mixer B In to a...
  • Page 43 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Input Pane Figure 1 Figure 2...
  • Page 44 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Output Pane The Output routing pane is functionally similar to the Input pane, but used to make connections between software and hardware outputs, as depicted below. Software outputs are displayed to the left of the grid and hardware outputs are displayed across the top of the grid.
  • Page 45 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Output Pane...
  • Page 46 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Working with the Input, Output and Mixer Panes While configuration of the Input and Output panes is quite intuitive, there are a few details to be aware of: One Hardware Input, Multiple Software Inputs - In the Input pane it is possible to route one hardware input to multiple software inputs simply by clicking down the desired hardware input column and across the desired software inputs, as shown at right.
  • Page 47 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Maestro Mixer Window...
  • Page 48 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Maestro Mixer An Overview Before describing the functions of Maestro’s Mixer pane, a bit of background information concerning latency and computer-based digital recording setups will help to better understand these Mixer functions.
  • Page 49 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Maestro Mixer An Overview By routing the hardware input directly to the hardware output and mixing in playback as shown in Figure B, it’s possible to provide the vocalist a headphone monitoring signal with a much shorter delay.

  • Page 50: Mixer Pane

    As described in the previous section, the Maestro mixer serves to blend hardware inputs with software out- puts (playback from your Mac), and route the mix directly to hardware outputs, as depicted below. Mixer Select (A-B) – This drop down menu selects between the two available mixers per Symphony 64 card.
  • Page 51 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Maestro Mixer Window From Mac – This stereo input channel provides level control, metering and mute/solo functions for a play- back signal from the software application. Match the software application’s mixer output and the From Mac drop down menu selection.
  • Page 52 APOGEE ELECTRONICS Maestro Mixer Window Each Symphony 64 PCIe card includes 2 independent mixers, Mixer A and Mixer B. This allows two completely independent low latency mixes to be routed to different hardware outputs, as depicted in the diagram at right.
  • Page 53 Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Mixer B Mixer B AD -1 6 X DA-16X O UT 1- 2 DA-16X O UT 3- 4 Mixer A pane 1 Mixer B pane 1 AD -1 6X # 1 Mixer A pane 2...

  • Page 54: Menu By Menu

    Mute/Solo all - This selection defines the key command to engage all Mutes or Solos when clicking on the Mute or Solo buttons. Additional Preferences Launch Maestro automatically when connecting a device - When this box is checked, Maestro is launched automatically when an Apogee device is detected.
  • Page 55 Choosing this menu item opens the Routing/Mixer window. Tools > Reset Symphony Clocking In certain instances Apogee interfaces can’t be detected until the clock setting of the first interface has been reset. Choosing Reset Symphony Clocking allows the reset of clock source on the first interface to Internal or External.

  • Page 56: Installing The X-Symphony Card

    Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide APOGEE ELECTRONICS Installing the X-Symphony card Your X-Symphony card should include the following: • 1 X-Symphony circuit card • 1 X-Symphony Coverplate • 2 aluminium standoffs • 1 plastic standoff 1 Remove the top cover of the host interface.

  • Page 57: Registration And Warranty Information

    This warranty is void if Apogee determines, in its sole business judgment, the defect to be the result of abuse, neglect, alteration or attempted repair by unauthorized personnel.
  • Page 58 Copyright Notice The Apogee Symphony PCIe card is a computer-based device, and as such contains and uses software in ROMs. This software, and all related documentation, including this User’s Guide contain proprietary information which is protected by copyright laws. All rights are reserved. No part of the software and its related documenta- tion may be copied, transferred, or modified.

  • Page 59: Declarations Of Conformity

    Canada. Declaration of Conformity – CE Apogee Electronics Corporation hereby declares that the product, the Symphony PCIe card, to which this declaration relates, is in material conformity with the following standards or other normative documents: •...
  • Page 60 Symphony 64 PCIe Card User’s Guide - v2 May 2011 Text conceived and delivered by: Roger Robindoré Graphics and illustrations by: Shaun Rust, Sean McArthur...

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