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Universal Audio Apollo interface hands-on

2012-01-20
Apollo is a high resolution audio interface for mac and pc with real-time UAD processing and what that means in humans speak is the interface can run all of the UAT two powered plugins library on input with no latency this is a mixing console that represents what Apollo actually does inside and here you've got these plugins running so these are classic vintage plugins emulating exactly what these pieces of hardware did but now they can run on the input right into your dog or your reporting software so that's a pretty cool thing the next cool thing that's really neat about it is this product also you is used to run plugins inside of any recording software like pro tools logic live garage band etc you can run our plugins right off this box as well so what we're seeing here is the ability to run our plugins on the input or run them on the background while you're mixing and again you have access to the best-sounding plugin is on the market today some of the other things that are cool about the product it's the first Thunderbolt audio interface available in the market an option cards locks right into the bag and you can connect it to the latest Macintosh computers there's also some new pcs have been announced with the latest technology of Thunderbolt this product will be compatible with those computers which is really really exciting it's got firewire 800 standard which can connect to any laptop imac but it also has Thunderbolt so for the lace computers from an apple that don't have firewire like the macbook air specifically you can actually hook up Apollo right to your computer and it's got all of the DSP processing built in so you don't need to worry about how powerful your computer is this box has all the power the product is available in two different SKUs a duo and a quad and what that means is one has to shark DSPs one has four all that means is you can do more plug-in processing on the front end and the back end when you're using using it in that way Flo the product will be shipping in March and again you can find out more information on our website at wwu audio com
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