Solid State Logic Duende PCIe Studio Pack - 32-Channel DSP Card

The Solid State Logic Duende PCIe Studio Pack is a high-bandwidth internal PCIe DSP card that was designed to bring the classic sound of SSL consoles to studios of any size. It provides 32 mono channels of plug-in processing power to your host digital audio workstation software, and it will work in any PCIe compatible Windows or Mac desktop computer. Six powerful SSL plug-ins are included that utilize the full processing power of the card, without any strain on the host computer's CPU.

The included 'EQ and Dynamics Channel' plug-in was based on the EQ and compressor stages of the venerable XL 9000 K Series mixing console. It features a host of useful sound shaping tools, such as separate high and low pass filters, a four band parametric equalizer, an independent compressor/limiter, and a gate/expander. Since SSL was the first company to include dynamics and EQ on every channel in a mixing console in 1977, the idea behind the Duende PCIe Studio Pack and the 'EQ and Dynamics Channel' plug-in is to make this amount of processing available to any DAW. The Duende Studio Pack also includes the Stereo Bus Compressor, the Drumstrip, the Vocalstrip, the X-EQ, and the X-Comp plug-ins. The Stereo Bus Compressor creates an effect of "gluing" a mix together while still maintaining a huge sound. It has an unmistakable character that can be heard on countless hit records.

If you eventually realize that you need even more processing power, you're in luck because this system is expandable. Two Duende cards can be used simultaneously to achieve an astounding 64 channels of DSP. If this still isn't enough, you can extend the processing by adding FireWire based Duende Mini's for an astounding 128 channels. If you've ever dreamed of having the sound of an SSL mixing console built into your DAW, dream no more.