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| | Features | Single channel input using one of the following three options:Internal condenser microphoneBalanced XLR microphone preamp input with +10 to 63dB of gainUnbalanced ¼" high impedance instrument input, 0 to 45 dB of gain
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| | Description | ONE is powered by a USB connection to your Mac and offers 24 bit audio at sample rates of 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz for pristine sound quality. With a footprint slightly larger than an iPhone, ONE's compact size is travel friendly, allowing you to rec... | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 4.72 inches | | Product Width: | 2.17 inches | | Product Height: | 1.06 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.32 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.2 inches | | Package Height: | 2.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Overpriced. Poor interface. Oh--and it stopped working. Jul 31, 2010
Don't let the rave reviews fool you. It's a flimsy purchase for the money and now, despite careful coddling of the fragile li'l device, the headphone jack plays nothing back other than buzzing and humming. Overall, a real bummer.
 (actually 3 1/2) Great Sound, But A Few Caveats May 20, 2010
+ Fantastic sound via the external preamp. To noticeably step up in sound quality in your interface, you're really going to need to buy discrete (and far pricier per channel) converters and preamps.
Very portable, about the size of a large smartphone. Having something with this sound quality that's easy to pack into a standard laptop bag or painlessly carry to any room of the house (with a laptop rig) really puts it in a league of it's own.
The internal mic is useable and would be fine for podcasts, demos, scratch tracks and occasional background instrument tracks. On a mixed note, it is a pretty sensitive condensor. If you use it with the (overly short) included cable and your computer makes any fan noise, it will be recorded!
- The biggest negative has been that the USB port and included cable don't latch very tightly. Since the body of the unit is very light, this makes it very easy to disconnect from your computer. This has caused a lot of headaches and in the end, I've just had to make do with being very careful about touching/moving it or anything connected to it. This is the main reason I docked it a star and a half.
The included cable is too short to use the ONE as a microphone (unless you're working with a whisper-quiet system and have your computer in exactly the spot you want to record at).
The ONE is light and plasticky. I trust it enough to carry in a laptop bag, but I think it warrants a little bit of caution.
It's Mac only, but you already knew that. I'm locked into OSX since I've settled on Logic as my weapon of choice (and have been incredibly happy with the rock solid audio stability of OSX), but it's worth thinking about when you're buying hardware.
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All in all, I'm happy with my purchase. I don't know of any other products that are this portable offer sound this good.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Enjoyed it... but watch out for the noise May 01, 2010
After hearing raving reviews I thought I'd give it a try and here's my two cents. I've been recording from my home studio for years and it's certainly not the first audio interface I've ever seen. The first ONE that I got caused me some grief. It was noisy. By that I mean that when recording it had such a high white noise floor that was practically unusable. After searching the net (only to find out that many customers seem to experience noise problems with ONE) and exchanging a couple of emails with Apogee tech support (don't you love writing a two page long cry for help and three days later receiving a one-line response?) I took the unit back to the Apple store and exchanged it for another one (no pun intended). The new unit is as quiet as a church mouse, works like a charm, is immediately recognized by both Logic and Garageband and is everything they say it is. Built-in mic is very convenient and produces clean sound (to my liking anyway), although I found it being almost "too" sensitive - when I was recording vocals it was catching background tracks from my headphones!
Having said that, I'll probably take it back - not because of quality but because it is Mac only and I use both PC and Mac in my work - so I'd like to have a more versatile gadget that works on both (plus ONE is certainly not the cheapest guy on the market). But if you're a Mac-only user - and do not require more than one input at a time - you might love it!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Usability Issue Mar 27, 2010
OK, so the sound is great, but I've got a problem with the usability of this thing.
I record using both the instrument input and external microphone input. There is only one button on the ONE, which controls volume. Whenever I want to change the input, i have to open their genuinely retarded Maestro software, and select the input I want. A minor gripe in itself, but what's worse is that almost every time i select a different input, it DOESN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE on the first try. It says it changed, but the audio coming in is still from the previously selected input. It takes two to three tries to actually change the input with their software. This gets frustrating after a while; i'm just trying to write some music.
So if you will only ever use one type of input, by all means, get this thing - you'll only have to deal with their software once. However, if you're like me and you want to switch between inputs often, best look elsewhere.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 overpriced, overhyped Mar 07, 2010
Apogee may have good quality digital to analog converters but they have ruined the output quality on this device by providing only unbalanced output. Unless you are using it with headphones you will notice a disturbingly high level of background noise in the form of a high-pitched whine. I have owned several different "pro" audio interfaces and none of them are as bad as the ONE.
The ONE also has significant problems with the hardware and software (I am using Mac OSX 10.5). Several times after using ONE my computer becomes slow and the fan kicks in high, an inspection of the task list shows that "ONE Daemon" is using up 100% CPU and I have to force-quit the process to make it go away. Also sometimes when plugging or unplugging the device, it goes into an error state where it makes a very loud buzzing noise that only goes away by resetting the power (replugging the device).
Finally, there is the issue of the software control panel. It is shockingly unresponsive, if you perform an action such as clicking on a slider to adjust a level, the spinning-wheel icon comes up and it takes about 10 seconds to respond to your click.
The Duet does not have balanced outputs either and if its software is at all similar, then I'd stay clear of that product also.
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