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 32 channels of processing power and you can run two Duende units on a single computer system for up to 64 channels of processing.
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 32)
- 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
- Run two Duende Minis for up to 64 channels of processing
Duende - Mix your music on an SSL
System Requirements
Duende offers up to 32 channels of SSL signal processing and supports sample rates from 44.1kHz to 96kHz.
Minimum System Requirements PC:
- Intel Pentium IV/AMD 1Ghz or higher
- Windows XP
- 512Mb of RAM (1Gb Recommended)
- 80Mb of free hard drive space
- 1024 X 768 screen resolution
- Internet connection for software updates
- One available Firewire/IEEE1394 400Mbit port
- Supported VST, AudioUnit or RTAS* host application
In addition, for best performance, your system should meet the minimum requirements for your selected host application.
Supported Audio Applications: these are the latest tested versions at time of writing:
- Cubase SX3.1.1 and Cubase 4.1
- Nuendo 3.2.1 + 4
- Pro Tools HD, LE and M-powered 7.4
- Ableton Live! 6.0.10
- Sonar 7
* Digidesign Pro Tools 7 through the use of VST-RTAS wrapper.
Minimum System Requirements Mac:
- Apple Macintosh G4, G5, MacPro, Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac (933MHz or higher)
- OSX 10.4.10 or 10.4.11
- 512Mb of RAM (1Gb Recommended)
- 80Mb of free hard drive space
- 1024 X 768 screen resolution
- Internet connection for software updates
- One available Firewire/IEEE1394 400Mbit port
- Supported VST, AudioUnit or RTAS* host application
Duende is not currently compatible with Leopard (Mac OS 10.5). This is under development and will be offered in a future software upgrade.
In addition, for best performance, your system should meet the minimum requirements for your selected host application.
Supported Audio Applications: these are the latest tested versions at time of writing:
- Logic 7.2.3 + 8.01
- Cubase SX3.1.1 and Cubase 4.1
- Nuendo 3.2.1 + 4
- Pro Tools HD, LE and M-powered 7.4
- Ableton Live! 6.0.10
- Digital Performer 5
- Digidesign Pro Tools 7 through the use of VST-RTAS wrapper
