Solid State Logic Duality SE Operator's Manual page 25

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Duality SE is an evolutionary combination of analogue console and DAW controller from Solid State Logic. It draws
on years of design experience, and incorporates industry standard features from SSL's range of large format music
consoles.
Duality SE combines technology from SSL's acclaimed music console, the XL 9000 K Series with new design concepts
which faithfully recreate the overload characteristics of valve circuitry. It retains all of the sonic benefits of
SuperAnalogue™ capacitorless servo coupled circuitry, then adds variable harmonic colouration on a channel by
channel basis, contained within a control surface which will be familiar to any recording engineer who has previously
used SSL consoles.
The ubiquitous DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) has brought many benefits to audio production, including visual
audio editing, integrated digital effects processing and convenient session storage and recall. However, although
eminently flexible, DAW's present new challenges of integration within the studio environment today.
Duality SE has been carefully designed with these requirements in mind. It addresses all the needs of current DAW
production techniques in an integrated, high quality and robust design, coupled with all of the sonic benefits expected
from a Solid State Logic console.
SSL's extensive design experience has been utilised to create the ultimate capture path for up to 96 simultaneous
inputs into the DAW, where recorded signals can be edited, processed and mixed via Duality SE's control surface.
The signal paths can then be either summed internally within the DAW or returned to the analogue domain for
further processing via Duality SE's channel path EQ and dynamics processors, before final summing via the console's
balanced analogue mix bus architecture. With a comprehensive 5.1 monitoring section, audio can be auditioned
with the highest possible audio integrity.
A high resolution, digitally controlled gain element in each channel allows the motorised faders to be switched to
control any DAW that supports the HUI or Mackie Control protocols, while retaining control of the analogue signal
path. The faders and their associated channel-based rotary encoders (D-pots) provide direct control of DAW faders,
pans, sends, plus input and output routing. The Master Control Panel and Duality SE's centre section screen give paged
control of all plug-in parameters.
In summary, Duality SE is a Complete Studio Solution for modern DAW based production environments.
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