Duende puts the legendary SSL sound within your DAW and Duende Mini makes owning your own slice of SSL sonic magic more affordable and portable than ever. Mini is a stylish little ‘one third rack width’, all metal construction, desktop box that hooks up to your computer via Firewire. This compact rugged unit is ideal for small studios or laptop based DAW users. Mini makes a stack of DSP processing power available to drive up to 16 mono channels of plug-in processing (at sample rates up to 96kHz) within your host application. Duende Mini is upgradeable to 128 channels of processing power.
Duende is based on the powerful DSP technology behind SSL’s acclaimed C-Series digital consoles and Mini ships with the ‘EQ and Dynamics Channel’, a plug-in developed by SSL to provide an EQ & Dynamics processing solution with all the power and processing flexibility of an SSL console channel.
Key Features
- The legendary sound of SSL for your digital audio workstation
- 16 channels of console-grade SSL EQ and Dynamics processing (upgradeable to 128)
- Powerful DSP engine based on SSL's award-winning C Series mixing consoles
- Relieves the plug-in processing burden on your computer's CPU
- Single FireWire connection for fast set-up
Duende - Mix your music on an SSL.
Specifications
| | Format | Channels | Included plug-ins | Connectivity |
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| Duende Mini | Compact desktop box | 16
(upgradeable to 128) | EQ & Dynamics Channel | FireWire |
| Duende PCIe | PCIe card | 32
(upgradeable to 128) | EQ & Dynamics Channel
Stereo Bus Compressor | High-bandwidth PCIe |
| Duende Mini Expanded | Compact desktop box | 32
(upgradeable to 128) | EQ & Dynamics Channel
Stereo Bus Compressor | FireWire |
| Duende Mini Studio Pack | Compact desktop box | 32
(upgradeable to 128) | EQ & Dynamics Channel
Stereo Bus Compressor
Drumstrip & Vocalstrip
X-EQ & X-Comp | FireWire |
| Duende PCIe Studio Pack | PCIe card | 32
(upgradeable to 128) | EQ & Dynamics Channel
Stereo Bus Compressor
Drumstrip & Vocalstrip
X-EQ & X-Comp | High-bandwidth PCIe |
Using Multiple Duende Units
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.
System Requirements
Duende supports sample rates from 44.1kHz to 96kHz. Running two FireWire Duende units requires two independent FireWire busses. Duende PCIe requires One available PCIe card slot. Duende Mini requires one available FireWire/IEEE1394 400Mbit port. Recommended VST, AudioUnit or RTAS host application*
| V2.x Minimum System Requirements | V3 Minimum System Requirements - 64 Slot Operation |
|---|
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)
| 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.
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For best performance your system should meet the minimum requirements for your selected host application.
* Steinberg Cubase Sx3, Cubase 4, Nuendo and Wavelab 6, Apple Logic Pro 8, Cakewalk Sonar 5, Ableton Live 6, Digidesign Pro Tools LE and M-Powered 7 through the use of VST-RTAS wrapper.
