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  • livewidmusiclivewidmusic

    "Belle, chic et royale!"

    Apogee DuetPublié le 18/07/14 à 17:42
    contenu en anglais (contenu en anglais)
    The Firewire Apogee Duet was something I found and bought after doing a lot of research. This tiny silver looking box comes with 2 Microphone inputs (with Phantom Power) delivering world class Apogee Pre-amps, 2 Line-level inputs and 2 Monitor outputs, all bundled and tied up together in a single breakout cable.

    Having a Mobile setup, i.e. a Macbook Pro [os Mavericks (Late 2009, 2.8GHz Core 2-Duo, 8gb)], a Shure - PG27 Condenser Mic and a DT770 Pro BeyerDynamics Headphone, and being someone who always travels, I wanted a device that could integrate all my equipment at one place without cluster-confusion at the same time without compromising the quality for sound. This is where I found the existence of Duet.

    Duet caught me immediately with its crystal clear AD/DA conversion. The sound is absolutely fantastic. Being a Logic 9 and Logic X user mostly, Apogee already has a place inside the Logic DAW option menus to control the Input levels. The dedicated Headphone input is also commendable.

    The Giant wheel knob on the Device is easy to use and straight forward giving us several options (Can be used to adjust Input levels and control the main output volume levels etc). Especially found them helpful while switching between Headphone and Monitor Outputs to check the levels individually.

    The Low Latency Monitoring option provided with the Stand-alone Maestro application provided by Duet is also helpful at times where you can listen to the recording that is coming directly from the Duet and not from the DAW.

    This goes into your smallest travel bag, your laptop case or your work pouch. The idea of having a device that could accompany you without any hindrance and attend to all your primary recording requirements giving you a unique incomparable quality is something special, and Apogee Duet makes it a reality for me.

    UTILIZATION

    The Legacy Duet that I am still using has the updated driver for the latest Mac OS Mavericks, and this shows how consistent and alert Apogee products are when its come to updating. Stability has never been an issue for me with Duet. 2 to 3 crashes have happened until now, but only when the session was overloaded with more than 100 tracks. Can't blame just the Duet.

    Duet initially became my recording companion on the Leopard OS, recording on Logic Pro 9. Most of my projects usually have almost 20-25 audio tracks with Sample Rate set to 44KHz. With my usual setting of the I/O Buffer set to 256 Samples (only while recording audio) and the Logic Software Monitoring enabled, the Duet provides me with 16.0ms roundtrip latency, which is fairly acceptable. I have to say that in this mode, Duet has never given me any kind of latency, and that is, even with any time or DSP based effects, for e.g., with delays and reverbs etc.

    Aside from recording, Duet plays back my session like the playhead scrolling without any stops/pops/clicks. Unless your system does not have enough breathing power to play back the sessions. This depends on the amount of free RAM and other requirements etc. For e.g., My sessions are always hybrid modelled, i.e, a session having midi instrument tracks and audio instrument tracks together, and Duet does a good job in handling this, playing back for me realtime multiple midi instruments (usually around 10-15 midi tracks) and all my audio tracks.

    All in All, Duet has read my biggest session till date having 200 tracks with 150 audio tracks and 50 instrument tracks without any overload warning or stop. (Note that while I playback after recording, the I/O Buffer is always set to 1024 samples giving a roundtrip latency of 50.8ms)

    GETTING STARTED

    Setting up the Duet was simple and clean for me. Coming in a Rectangular shaped box, there is nothing that is not clear inside this while unpacking the Duet. 1 Firewire cable, 1 Breakout cable and the Duet itself. As mentioned in the Manual clearly, after connecting it via a Firewire (Gives you a Firewire 800 and 400 free cable each with the case) to my laptop, I had to install the dedicated driver provided on the apogee website and had to install the Maestro, to control Duet on a stand-alone basis.

    Once opened with Logic Pro 9, it detects for the newly attached duet and then we are ready to adjust the levels and hit record. The functions of Duet are easy to understand.

    Today I am using the Logic X on the Mavericks 10.9.4. Its been 6 years. There has never been any compatibility issues with me.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Pros
    1) Amazing AD/DA Conversion giving crisp and clear recording.
    2) Strong Outer-body, has withstood a lot of misplaces by me.
    3) The cables provided within do not cuddle, clatter or has never been bent, destroying the connectivity.
    4) Easy to use and understand.
    5) Offers 44Khz to 96KHz recording and playback.

    Cons
    1) Moderate amount of heat exertion while recording and playback.
    2) Only XLR Inputs and 2 Stereo Outs.
    3) The Led levels sometimes portray peak levels even if the gain level is down.
    4) Crashed once while recording in 96Khz.


    The price I got this for (directly ordered from the website) was for $533. Some might argue that this is a bit overpriced as there are many sound cards out there that gives you more input and monitoring options. But for me, someone going for the perfect quality recording sound, I would say the price is justifiable for this being the main reason.

    Apogee Duet was my first sound card. My first recording on a DAW was using this device. After being used to this quality, I have never been satisfied with the sound of other sound cards (not naming them), that comes in this same range of price and value.

    After these many years experience, Apogee only amazes me with the numerous amounts of recordings I have made and it still does. The choice I made was perfect!
  • Des notes et du bruitDes notes et du bruit

    Rien de plus rien de moins

    Apogee DuetPublié le 05/12/11 à 10:33
    - Je cherchais de bons convertisseurs et de bon préamps sans me ruiner. Je suis parti d'abord sur le Duet2 mais mes finances faisaient un peu la tronche, quand j'ai vu le prix de celle-ci en b stock sur toto (298E contre 500 pour la 2) j'ai craqué.
    Je n'ai pas besoin de 36 entrées et sorties, 2 me suffisent amplement, l'un des points important été l'ergonomie, est là, c'est du caviar.
    - Utilisation sur un Macbook pro 2.26ghz et 8 gb de ram.

    UTILISATION

    - Installation en 2 min, on branche tout est ok, rien à redire.
    - Je l'utilise avec Live, aucun soucis à ce jour (4 jours d'utilisation, je précise).
    - Latence très courte, pour les mises à jour je vais m'y atteler cette semaine.…
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    - Je cherchais de bons convertisseurs et de bon préamps sans me ruiner. Je suis parti d'abord sur le Duet2 mais mes finances faisaient un peu la tronche, quand j'ai vu le prix de celle-ci en b stock sur toto (298E contre 500 pour la 2) j'ai craqué.
    Je n'ai pas besoin de 36 entrées et sorties, 2 me suffisent amplement, l'un des points important été l'ergonomie, est là, c'est du caviar.
    - Utilisation sur un Macbook pro 2.26ghz et 8 gb de ram.

    UTILISATION

    - Installation en 2 min, on branche tout est ok, rien à redire.
    - Je l'utilise avec Live, aucun soucis à ce jour (4 jours d'utilisation, je précise).
    - Latence très courte, pour les mises à jour je vais m'y atteler cette semaine.
    - Au niveau du son, on ressent la petite différence dont parle tout le monde lorsque l'on est en présence de convertos Apogée, lancez un banal Mp3 et si vous avez des enceintes qui tiennent un peu la route (Adam A7x pour moi) vous ressentez tout de suite la différence.

    MISE EN OEUVRE

    Je n'ai rien vu de plus clair pour mac à ce jour, tout est simple.



    AVIS GLOBAL

    - Reçu il y a 4 jours
    - Motu ultralite mk3, emu 1616m et certaines que j'ai vu chez d'autres.
    - Qualité des préamps et convertisseurs, gros bouton qui fait tout, esthétique (ben oui ça compte aussi).
    - Rien, a 300 euros en neuf, je vois pas de mauvais côtés.
    - Si j'avais un budget un peu plus conséquent j'aurais pris la Duet 2, c'est mon seul regret.

    Petite mise à jour du 22/12/2011:
    Je rencontre un gros soucis pour obtenir une latence correct sous Live, ce qui rend l'utilisation très pénible, à suivre ....
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  • loudfunkloudfunk

    Interface de voyage idéal ...

    Apogee DuetPublié le 24/03/11 à 20:05
    contenu en anglais (contenu en anglais)
    2 inputs and 2 outputs, big volume knob selectable for input 1/input 2/output from software/output from hardware/selectable midi function.
    Level LEDs switchable for input and or output.


    UTILIZATION

    Use it on my Mac Book pro as my interface when I travel. And more importantly to interface rental amps with efx via Apple Main Stage 2. More on that below...
    As a recording interface I use it on Logic 9, or Pro Tools 9. And when dual booting the laptop into windows to use Samplitude/Sequoia via Parallels Desktop.

    It's limited to record two tracks at a time, but for recording guitar on the go it's great. The inputs are switchable between instrument/line level and/or mic inputs. Works well for dynamic mics like the Shure SM57 or the Sennheiser 609, etc...
    Downside is that it doesn't have phantom power for condenser mics which require it.

    GETTING STARTED

    The set-up is a breeze install the drivers and Apogess Maestro control panel that lets you select levels, inputs, routing, whether audio will be send straight to the hardware outs or from the recording software.
    And you're ready to record.
    Since this is OSX only the only way to use it on a windows program is by using it through Parallels Desktop or VM Fusionware and run Windows on top of OSX with the Apogee running as default audio under WMD drivers.

    OVERALL OPINION

    The best part of this interface is using it with Apple Maisnstage, Apple's stand alone software-instrument/amp-sim/AU plug-ins rack.

    You run your guitar into the front of your amp, run the efx send into input 1 on the Apogee, and output 1 back to your amp's efx return.
    Then open Main Stage and select the Apogee Duet as the interface, choose input 1 as your in, and out 1 as your output (switch to mono).

    And then you can add whatever plug-ins you like...delays, filters, reverb, etc...
    The latency is pretty good in a serial loop and of no concern in a parallel loop. The best part is that the computer pretty much pulls all resources into running Main Stage at a higher priority than anything else so it's just about as solid as a hardware processor. Downside is that in order to switch stuff on or off you still will have to carry a midi controller. But hey it beats paying cargo for a fridge sized rack.
  • AkAlvarezAkAlvarez

    BON PRODUIT ROBUSTE ET VIABLE

    Apogee DuetPublié le 03/10/11 à 15:01
    Apogee = bon convertisseur
    facilite de branchement et tres transportable

    UTILISATION

    super tout marche bien et tres simple d'utilisation, il n'y a que le choix du switch entre le casque et les enceinte qui me semble un peu confu de temps a autres.

    MISE EN OEUVRE

    aucun souci

    AVIS GLOBAL

    Tres bon produit, robustre, bon convertisseurs, transportable, branchement simple. A savoir qu'il vaux mieux acheter un cable Firwire 400 vers du 800 car mac n'a plus de connections firewire en 400.
  • CodanimaCodanima

    Apogee DuetPublié le 22/08/09 à 16:59
    Bien construite, robuste, pratique, bien pour beaucoup d'usages. Le gros bouton multifonction de volume est bien pensé.

    UTILISATION

    La dernière mouture du logiciel Maestro est depuis la dernière version plus stable (ancienne version buggait parfois si on ne sauvait pas les changements) et n'est plus automatiquement lancé au démarrage de la machine (pratique).
    La nappe de cables à l'arrière est terriblement pratique, l'ergonomie est formidable de la machine est simple et bien pensée.


    MISE EN OEUVRE

    Zéro problème. Bravo Apogee.

    AVIS GLOBAL

    Un achat sans aucun regret pour un usage "couteau Suisse" de qualité pour le prix. Etonné par la qualité des petits préamplis …
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    Bien construite, robuste, pratique, bien pour beaucoup d'usages. Le gros bouton multifonction de volume est bien pensé.

    UTILISATION

    La dernière mouture du logiciel Maestro est depuis la dernière version plus stable (ancienne version buggait parfois si on ne sauvait pas les changements) et n'est plus automatiquement lancé au démarrage de la machine (pratique).
    La nappe de cables à l'arrière est terriblement pratique, l'ergonomie est formidable de la machine est simple et bien pensée.


    MISE EN OEUVRE

    Zéro problème. Bravo Apogee.

    AVIS GLOBAL

    Un achat sans aucun regret pour un usage "couteau Suisse" de qualité pour le prix. Etonné par la qualité des petits préamplis intégrés très honnorables. De plus l'objet est solide et élégant. Petit bémol hélas sur un petit buzz de la nappe cables parfois. Rien de bien méchant, il suffit de "tripoter" un peu et c'est reparti. Sinon achat largement recommandable.
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