Any unit in this price range will sound just as good. In my opinion at this level the sound is trivial. I kept the Apollo because of the work flow, connectivity and plugin integration. Compared to the Pure 2 and Prism is just a different flavor of the same good sound quality. Just like the Manlu Mu you just cant make this plugin to sound bad… maybe this is where the two resemble.
It glues everything together without effort. I would recommend this plugin to everyone. However the plugin itself adds a very nice warm character to the mix or track. I had this unit for good amount of time and I believe that the plugin is way off. They do sound good but there are not close to their real counterparts. The Neve and Api unison plugins in my opinion are not good impersonations of the real thing.
UAD APOLLO 8 SOFTWARE
I could not tell the difference between the hardware and the software one. The 610 unison is probably the best emulated plugin. Outstanding integration with the UA plugins. It is not that quiet especially on the headphones output, this is in respect with Pure 2 and Prism, otherwise I would not consider this as an issue. They say the unit is transparent I would say it is on the warm side. Motu does a better job.Īpollo- beautiful hardware and software, quite heavy and big, good connectivity, nice materials on the main knobs, easy to work with. True in fact is you that you can write to the support team and then in the next 24 to 48 h you can get a response. Antelope knowledge base is non existent, and so you have came here to ask questions. Other times the USB port would not recognize the unit. And then from time to time the unit was not shutting down properly, just staying in some limbo mode. Main volume know had a click sound that I didn’t like, latency issues, especially if you run VI.
I had different sessions a different with different recorded freq and so the unit would just freeze. The bad ? There are little annoying things that makes you think about the price you paid like: change the recording frequency you would have to restart the unit. Very nice interface software, beautiful design, all around. You can overload the converters and have a very pleasant recording almost like a tube saturation. Pure 2 – most beautiful converter/audio interface.
One thing worth mentioning is that as expensive as it was the main volume knob was cheap plastic and the front LEDs were just some lights for indication of music, nothing that you can rely on. Of course you can color with outboard gear and that is fine. To me the sound was top notch, but not to my taste. Lyra Prism – outstanding sound in-out, dead quiet but also with a very unintuitive mix software, a real pain to use. I bought the following: Lyra Prism One, Antelope Pure 2 and Apollo 8 Quad blackface.
UAD APOLLO 8 UPGRADE
They were not the best in terms of conversion or preamps but definitely they where musically very close to what I want and very very stable with an outstanding customer service.įor last 2 years or so I made some money out of music (yea I know I was surprised too) and I wanted to upgrade my audio interface. My sound was my main concern starting with the microphone and ending up with the converters. I want to post some impressions about the Apollo.
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