Control 2 Summer Update

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New Functionalities, More Power!

What's up Apogee users! We're very excited to share with you our newest Control 2 update! This will apply to the following products:

Current Products:

BOOM

Duet 3

Symphony Desktop

Legacy Products

Quartet

Duet for iOS, Mac, and PC

One V2

Take a tour of the new updates with George from Apogee.

Unleash The Power of Talkback

Users now have talkback at their fingertips. What's talkback? This feature allows engineers to speak to performers via their playback system (headphones etc).

Imagine you're working with a vocalist in a vocal booth, rather than having the performer come into the control room to give notes, you can have a 2 sided dialog with the performer all while keeping them in their zone and not disrupting the session. The update also cleverly does not use one of your interfaces' Mic inputs, instead, it utilizes the built-in mic in your computer or any USB mic connected to the computer. A great choice to step up from the internal mic is the Apogee Mic Plus.

To engage talkback, just press the mic icon in the toolbar:

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Options For Routing

By default talkback is set to output through playback channels 1 and 2, which is a nice

starting point. This is likely the same signal your performer is listening to in their

headphones and also what your main playback monitors are fed by default.

Let's say you have an interface such as the Symphony Desktop which sports multiple

headphone outputs, you may care to choose where audio goes from and to. For

example, if you're using one set of headphones to monitor while your performer uses

the other headphone output for their headphone mix you might decide to route to an

alternate set of outputs such as 3 and 4.

Whatever the creative application, you'll create these routings via a new feature in the

sidebar of Control 2 which is labeled Talkback Settings. This is also where you choose

what mic acts as a talkback source.

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Control Remote Compatibility

For those looking to put talkback within arms reach, you'll be pleased to hear about our

next feature; Apogee's Control hardware Remote now works with USB interfaces!

This makes a great fit for those who would rather have a button than move between

their DAW and the Control 2 software.

What does it do? Simply put, it puts any of the functions inside of the Control 2 software

at your fingertips.

While the buttons start with defaults, the really cool thing about the control remote is

that it can be easily customized to do whatever functions best suit your workflow. To

customize, make sure the remote is connected to the same computer as your interface

and click the Remote Assign icon in the Toolbar, you'll see a whole plethora of options

come up:

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Essentially the encoder knob can be used to change headphone or monitor volume,

while the above buttons 1-4 and A-D can be assigned to whichever functions best serve

your purpose.

8 buttons not enough? No worries, we got you covered. You can now save

presets for the control remote functions. These allow you to recall different sets of

features and assignments.

Oh! Did we mention you can use up to 4 remotes all with independent presets? The possibilities are endless.

Wrapping Up

We're stoked about the new Control 2 update and want to send a special shoutout to

our loyal customers for requesting this functionality and imagining the utility of these

features outside of our Flagship Symphony MKII interfaces.

We're always happy to hear from you.

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