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First Look: Universal Audio Apollo Thunderbolt Audio Interface

2012-01-22
hey guys johnathan here with tlz here with Lev from Universal Audio we're going to take a look at the all new Apollo interface the reason I'm bringing you guys this here on TLT it's kind of over the next-generation technology as far as audio goes lives one of the masterminds behind it so he's going to tell you guys all about it yes we're here showing off Apollo Apollo is a high-resolution audio interface with the real-time unity processing and what that means in humans speak is you get the ability to run all of our real-time une plugins right through the input so you can literally track through a Neve console ass tutor tape machine any of the classic plugins that we make you actually get to record through them a sub to millisecond latency in addition to that the Box also runs our plugins inside of your recording applications so you know you get access to all that stuff when you're mixing and mastering one of the really great features about the product that people are really diggin is this the first thunderbolt audio interface that's going to be available it's got firewire 800 standard on the box you connect that to your Mac or PC but then there's a Thunderbolt option card it slides into the back then the box runs over PCIe over a thunderbolt and as an added bonus the box will actually let you use the firewire ports as a hub / Thunderbolt so it'll expand out to any legacy firewire equipment that you might have the back panels got tons of i/o it's got four mic preamps eight line inputs eight line outputs monitor outputs it's got 10 channels of digital i/o it's got word clock the front panel is chock full of control and great things that you want to get at to Heisey inputs you can plug-in guitars keyboards DJ equipment again the front panel is just chock-full of great visual feedback beautiful metering great knobs you can plug in two different headphone outputs on this thing setup mixers for two different performers so a very intuitive workflow very beautiful workflow and most importantly it's the best sounding audio interface in its class so you're going to get amazing results with this product all right thanks left for letting us check it out we're actually going to hop over to the gear gasm channel where most of the NAMM coverage is going to be is actually going to show us how to install the Thunderbolt card so if you guys want to check that go and click the video rights here you
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