Solid State Logic Duality 82S6DUA20C - Manual (Page 13)

Duality Operator’s Manual
Overview
Duality is an evolutionary combination of analogue console and DAW controller from Solid State Logic. It draws
on years of design experience, and incorporates industry standard features from SSL’s range of large format
music consoles.
Duality combines technology from SSL’s acclaimed music console, the XL 9000 K Series with new design
concepts which faithfully recreate the overload characteristics of valve circuitry. It retains all of the sonic benefits
of SuperAnalogue™ capacitorless servo coupled circuitry, then adds variable harmonic colouration on a channel
by channel basis, contained within 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
audio editing, 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 has been carefully designed with these requirements in mind. It addresses all the needs of current DAW
production techniques in an integrated, high quality and robust design, coupled with all of the sonic benefits
expected from a Solid State Logic console.
SSL’s extensive design experience has been utilised to create the ultimate capture path for up to 96
simultaneous inputs into the DAW, where recorded signals can be edited, processed and mixed via Duality’s
control surface. The signal paths can then be either summed internally within the DAW or returned to the
analogue domain for further processing via Duality’s channel path EQ and dynamics processors, before final
summing via the console’s balanced analogue mix bus architecture. 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
control any DAW that supports the HUI or Mackie Control protocols, while retaining control of the analogue
signal path. The faders and their associated channel-based rotary encoders (D-pots) provide direct control of
DAW faders, pans, sends, plus input and output routing. The Master Control Panel and Duality’s centre section
screen give paged control of all plug-in parameters.
In summary, Duality is a Complete Studio Solution for modern DAW based production environments.
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