The most crucial process in the digital recording environment is high-quality analog to digital conversion and the most trusted and desirable converters are made by Apogee. With up to 192k standard sample rates, the Rosetta Series combines Apogee’s legendary conversion quality with flexibility that complements any digital audio workstation.

Symphony Connection

Either with the Symphony PCIe card and the extremely powerful Mac Pro or the Symphony Mobile card with the portable yet powerful Mac Book Pro, the Rosetta Series will make a great front end for your Symphony system when only a few channels of I/O are needed.The great thing is that you can expand later by adding another Rosetta, or by adding from the AD-16X and DA-16X series converters.

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Pro Tools HD or Native FireWire connection

Like the all new generation Apogee hardware, the Rosetta Series has an expansion card slot that accommodates all Apogee X-Series cards. This gives the Rosetta Series outstanding connection capability to Pro Tools HD with the “X-HD” card, or connect to any native DAW using the “X-FireWire" card.

Intelliclock: Dual Stage Jitter Reduction

Another essential for outstanding digital recording is maintaining an ultra-low-jitter clock signal. To accomplish this, Rosetta Series utilizes Apogee’s Intelliclock. Intelliclock is really two clocks in one. A fast-responding ´read´ clock with a wide locking range fills a dedicated FIFO buffer while an ultra-low-jitter ´write´ clock writes the data out of the buffer, and is used to clock the converters.

SoftLimit: Maximize Levels, Minimize Overs

One of the greatest difficulties in digital recording is getting an adequate level without clipping and unwanted distortion. With Apogee’s SoftLimit, you can maximize digital output levels without overs.

UV22HR: Dither Down with 24-bit Detail

Apogee, Apple and Euphonix have been working together to provide a range of powerful integrated music creation tools that take the process of composing, recording, editing and mixing to a whole new level.

Apogee Rosetta 800 192k 8-Channel 24-bit/192kHz AD/DA Converter Features

• 8 channels of premium 24-bit AD/DA conversion
• Sample rates up to 192kHz upgrade standard
• 8 channels of AES, ADAT I/O
• Optional FireWire expansion card for compatibility with OS X, and Windows XP (X-FireWire card)
• Optional expansion card for direct connection to Pro Tools HD (X-HD card)
• Optional expansion card for direct connection to Pro Tools Mix (X-Digi-Mix card)
• “Soft Limit” for maximum digital level without overs
• “UV22HR” for superior dither of high-resolution digital signal to 16 bits for the Internet and CD mastering

INPUTS

• Analog in 1-8 Balanced, DSUB 25pin connector
• Optical: toslink x 2, supporting ADAT and SMUX protocol
• AES-EBU in x8, transformer balanced, DSUB 25pin connector (192k single wide compatible)
• WC in: BNC 75 ohm

OUTPUTS

• Analog out 1-8 Balanced, DSUB 25pin connector
• Optical: toslink x 2, supporting ADAT and SMUX protocol
• AES-EBU out x8, transformer balanced, DSUB 25pin connector (192k single wide compatible)
• WC in: BNC 75 ohm

• Sample rates: 44.1 - 48k, 88.2 - 96k, 176.4 - 192k (+/-10%);
• Frequency response: 10 - 20k (+/- 0.2 dB) at 44.1k
• Analog max levels are adjustable between +2 dBu and +26 dBu
• Dynamic range: 114 dB A weighted (AD + DA)
• THD+N: -105 dB (AD), -103 dB (DA)
• Power: 90-250 VAC, 50-60Hz, 45Watt