Duality SE Operator's Manual - Solid State Logic

Console OperationsseCtIOn 2: COnsOle OperatIOnsOVerVIewDuality SE is an evolutionary combination of analogue console and DAW controller from Solid State Logic. It draws on yearsof design experience, and incorporates industry standard features from SSL’s range of large format music consoles.Duality SE combines technology from SSL’s acclaimed music console, the XL 9000 K Series with new design concepts whichfaithfully recreate the overload characteristics of valve circuitry. It retains all of the sonic benefits of SuperAnaloguecapacitorless servo coupled circuitry, then adds variable harmonic colouration on a channel by channel basis, containedwithin a control surface which will be familiar to any recording engineer who has previously used SSL consoles.The ubiquitous DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) has brought many benefits to audio production, including visual audioediting, integrated digital effects processing and convenient session storage and recall. However, although eminently flexible,DAW’s present new challenges of integration within the studio environment today.Duality SE has been carefully designed with these requirements in mind. It addresses all the needs of current DAWproduction techniques in an integrated, high quality and robust design, coupled with all of the sonic benefits expected froma Solid State Logic console.SSL’s extensive design experience has been utilised to create the ultimate capture path for up to 96 simultaneous inputs intothe DAW, where recorded signals can be edited, processed and mixed via Duality SE’s control surface. The signal paths canthen be either summed internally within the DAW or returned to the analogue domain for further processing via DualitySE’s channel path EQ and dynamics processors, before final summing via the console’s balanced analogue mix busarchitecture. With a comprehensive 5.1 monitoring section, audio can be auditioned with the highest possible audio integrity.A high resolution, digitally controlled gain element in each channel allows the motorised faders to be switched to controlany DAW that supports the HUI or Mackie Control protocols, while retaining control of the analogue signal path. Thefaders and their associated channel-based rotary encoders (V-pots) provide direct control of DAW faders, pans, sends,plus input and output routing. The Master Control Panel and Duality SE’s centre section screen give paged control of allplug-in parameters.In summary, Duality SE is a Complete Studio Solution for modern DAW based production environments.Duality se V3 Operator’s Manual2-1