INTERVIEWER: This is Gearwire.Com, and we're here at the Apogee booth in Musikmesse 2007, and we're here with Lucas van der Mee, the senior design engineer for Apogee. Welcome, Lucas.

LUCAS VAN DER MEE: Welcome to our booth.

INTERVIEWER: We'd like to hear a little bit about Symphony. Symphony, I understand, is a PCI backplane, an interface for your existing converters. Tell us a little bit.

LUCAS VAN DER MEE: That's correct. Yeah, so what we offer with Symphony is a way to get in and out of your Macintosh Tower or Mac Book Pro with a high number of channels, but I'm holding here for instance is the Symphony Mobile. It's the card that goes into the Mac Book Pro, and this small card will give you 32 channels of digital I/O to your Mac Book Pro. What this does, it will connect to -- you put this in your Mac Book Pro, and on the other end of our converters -- those are the converters that are compatible with this -- have a similar connector and you'll be able to fill up the 32 channels with our converters. So what you gain with this is a very high channel count, very low latency, it runs 24-bit up to 192 kHz without any channel loss, and the latency is down to 1.6 ms at 96 kHz, so it's a really professional format.

INTERVIEWER: An observer might observe that Apogee lately has been interested in expansion as a design principle. Would that be fair to say?

LUCAS VAN DER MEE: Expansion? Yeah. I mean we understand that the native world has really professional, and that there was a lack of I/O, proper I/O, so with this we -- with our devices, we give the user a lot of options how to get in and out of the computer. Is that the question?

INTERVIEWER: Absolutely.

LUCAS VAN DER MEE: Okay.

INTERVIEWER: Well thank you so much, Lucas. We appreciate your time.

LUCAS VAN DER MEE: Okay.