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Apogee Electronics Corporation announced today that Symphony Mobile is now shipping worldwide through authorized dealers and distributors. Symphony Mobile is the first professional, state-of-the art native audio workstation designed specifically for Apple’s MacBook Pro.

Symphony Mobile features all of the performance, quality and value of Apogee’s Symphony PCI-Express card, with up to 32 channels of I/O, and less than 1.6 milliseconds of latency at 96K, in a portable form factor. Installed directly into Apple’s MacBook Pro and connected to Apogee’s legendary X-Series or Rosetta Series converters, Symphony Mobile delivers amazing sound quality and capabilities that rival most desktop workstations, making it the ultimate solution for professionals that want to do audio production on a laptop.

“We are pleased to be shipping Symphony Mobile,” says Apogee Co-Founder and CEO, Betty Bennett. “With high channel count and extremely low latency, Symphony Mobile liberates the customer from large desktop workstations. The freedom to move no longer requires professionals to compromise on performance.”
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Extreme Punch 2 is a major upgrade to Extreme Punch with a number of improvements.

New Features:
CPU efficiency improved by 60%
Fatter, punchier, more analog sound
Natural tape compression emulation
Automatic dynamic control
Free Video instruction guide

Extreme Punch is an analog tape emulator designed to make digital tracks warmer and considerably punchier.

Back in the days of analog tape, producers used the “limitations” of the medium to make recordings that were punchy and warm. This was done by saturating the magnetic particles on analog tape by sending a very “hot” signal to the tape.

The result was a pleasantly warm sounding recording that analog became known for. Extreme Punch was designed to very accurately reproduce the sound of tape saturation. You can download the free demo version and try it for yourself.

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