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Originally Posted by Max  Duet is designed to be an Apogee quality product at a never before seen price point. It's important to understand that there is no product out there that will compare sonically to Duet, short of spending thousands more (i.e. Ensemble).
To insure the headphone out achieved the quality we sought, we had to have the same signal path to both the headphone and D/A. To design in a separate D/A for the headphone out would have increased the cost significantly.
That being said, one of the coolest features of Core Audio is the ability to aggregate multiple devices into a single device. This includes built in audio I/O. So for cue mixes, aggregate Duet and the built in output on your Mac and you're good to go. |
In theory and in paper aggregating multiple devices seems like a no brainer. In reality though thats a different story, depending on the computer your using. For most people with G4 laptops this becomes a problem. Because you have a firewire audio interface (Duet) plus a firewire drive to playback your music and your live files. This in itself taxes out your laptop and through my experience aggregating multiple devices also taxes your cpu, not giving you good results. I"m telling you Max, a lot of people wouldn't mind you guys producing a different version of the Duet that comprimises the headphone out. Besides most people don't mix with their headphones. So I would love to have a four output version.
Again I think this product is leaving out the performing live musician and it's a shame.
Just my 2 cents.
