Apollo Twin by Universal Audio

music production hardware

If you want to upgrade your sound and overall recording as heard on hundreds of famous songs and records, Apollo Twin is the leading class of realtime UAD processing. It’s the perfect match for music recording with near-zero latency, designed especially for desktop music production. Specifically, it’s a 2×6 USB 3 interface for Windows users. In short, it allows you to record ingeniously classic analog tones with modern features. In addition, it has two Unison mic preamps that you can emulate from SSL, API, Neve, and Universal Audio. Plus, it includes the great gain stage sweet spots.

Apollo Twin: Features

The special mix between both Apollo Twin’s mic preamps and UAD 2 DUO Core DSP is simply great. Its interface reconfigures impedance. As a result, getting close to the classic sound of the worlds most recorded preamps is around the corner.

All About the Plugins

Right out of the box, the device provides a suite of unimaginable analog imitating plugins in the world. For example, think of Teletronix LA-2A, 1176LN, Pultec EQs, and the Unison-enabled UA 610-B Tube Preamp. UA’s famous group of profesional engineers created these Realtime Analogue Classic plugins—and they set the standard by which all other hardware imitating plugins came into being. From the tube warmth of the Pultec EQ on guitars to the delicate restricting of the LA-2A on vocals, your recordings will take a mammoth jump forward in rich and sonically complex analog sound.

Past the included Realtime Analog Classics plugins, with Apollo Twin USB you tap into a complete library of award-winning plugins. For instance, there are vintage EQs, compressors, reverbs, tape machines, and more. With its near-zero idleness, your sound software’s buffer measure doesn’t compromise your computer’s CPU. Plus, with select imitations from Neve, Studer, Manley, API, Ampex, Dictionary, Bumper, and more, it’s like having a perpetual analog studio right on your desktop.

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