DSP-powered SSL processing for desktop computer, PCI Express. Included Plug-ins: EQ & Dynamics Channel, Stereo Bus Compressor
Duende is based on the powerful DSP technology behind SSL's acclaimed C-Series digital consoles. Duende PCIe is a high bandwidth, half length, full height slot-in PCIe card that works in both PCs and Macs. This card is ideal for those who work with lots of external firewire equipment, or those who want to integrate their SSL processing and workstation into a single case unit.
Key Features
- Includes EQ & Dynamics Channel and Stereo Bus Compressor Plug-ins
- The legendary sound of SSL for your digital audio workstation
- 32 channels of console-grade SSL EQ and Dynamics processing (upgradeable to 128)
- Very high bandwidth internal PCIe card format
- Powerful DSP engine based on SSL's award-winning C Series mixing consoles
- Relieves the plug-in processing burden on your computer's CPU
Duende V3 is a major new software release that can fundamentally change the
architecture of any existing Duende unit. Duende V3 software uses “Hybrid processing” to share
the work load between the Duende and the host computer. This allows systems to run with lower latencies, more stability, and offer higher plug-in counts.
Included Plug-ins:
- EQ & Dynamics Channel
- Stereo Bus Compressor
Optional Plug-ins:
- Drumstrip
- X-EQ
- X-Comp
- X-Verb
- Vocalstrip
V2 Minimum Requirements:
PC
- Intel Pentium IV/AMD 1GHz or higher
- 512Mb of RAM (1Gb recommended)
MAC
- Apple Macintosh G4 or G5 (933MHz or higher)
- OSX 10.4.11 or higher
- 512Mb of RAM (1Gb recommended)
V3 Minimum Requirements 64 Slot
PC
- 64 Slot Operation - Intel Core2 running at 2.0 GHz or higher (or comparable CPU)
- 128 Slot Operation - Intel Core2 running at 2.0 GHz or higher (or comparable CPU)
- 2GB of Ram (or higher)
- Duende V3 does not support Pentium or Celeron
MAC
- Intel MAC running at 1.83 GHz or higher
- 2GB of Ram (or higher)
- Duende V3 does not support Power PC Macs.
You can run two Duende’s (any combination of Mini or PCIe) on a single computer.
The maximum channel count for a single computer is 128 channels, regardless of how many Duende units you have installed.
