Has anyone seen this yet? Anyway, this looks like a pretty sweet sollution, albeit a pricey one! However, this looks like the future of high end to my eyes...


http://www.musicradar.com...s/apollo-551650/review

This has been out for quite awhile. Seeing quite a few of them being sold over on Gearslutz.

If you need a new interface and UAD effects it is a very good deal.  I'm not so sure about recording w/ those effects, which it can do, tho I use analog effects.  Interesting idea, tho.  It is fairly cheap to make a nice, clean sounding interface and add the color later.  Now you can add a little going in and save the UAD cpu for the big stuff mixing.

On a side note, I was just talking w/ a major producer who has switched over to UAD and gotten rid of most of his analog outboard.  He said the UAD sound was close enough, and time spent on recall was costing him too much money when the label ect. asked for changes.  This was in a rant about how hard it was too make money in music these days.  Of course, that is like a millionaire going broke - I wish I was so broke w/ the house and pocket change they still have.

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Yeah, I know it's been out for a while but haven't actually read any reviews of it yet. It's interesting though and I wonder how it will perform with the Thunderbolt connection on Windows (when it'll be available).

@ he he, yeah. there are tough times for the studio folks. UAD is sounding pretty good to me, although I don't have much hands on experience with their plugs. I've been working in studios where they have had them installed and they're as good as anything.

What I like about this idea is that besides having the UAD DSP and all their well modeled plugs, you can insert what you want and use it as a pre amp. I know with my self, I hate going straight into and audio interface when doing vocals especially. I prefer some reverb, a tad compression, perhaps an exciter and if this can provide several versions of this, at least for monitoring purpouses, of top shelf hardware emulations, then that sounds pretty good to me.

And then you have all the cool stuff available for mix.

And you can connect it to a lap top - no more computer surgery.

And you get Universal Audio pre-amps

Yep, I've been intrigued since is was announced but waiting patiently for the PC version.

Now if you're talking strictly about the plugs, I've been using them almost exclusively since 2004. I've quit searching for holy grails as the UAD stuff works very well in my commercial environment. My 2¢.

The reviews on the ADDA for this unit are just OK. The features and plugins of course stellar. The routing is exactly what most small studios need. I listened to some of the tracks and comparisons for this unit over at Gearlslutz and have to say, I was not impressed with the sound. I hope they focus on improving the ADDA results in the next version which is why I am going to wait awhile before I buy one.

If they could get the quality up to, say the standards of the 2192 or Lynx converters, I would be all in.

ProjectM


Has anyone seen this yet? Anyway, this looks like a pretty sweet sollution, albeit a pricey one! However, this looks like the future of high end to my eyes...


http://www.musicradar.com/gear/all/computers-software/peripherals/input-devices/audio-interfaces/apollo-551650/review

Apollo has the worst routing ever... just forget it!
You can't connect any own gear to the setup? How stupid isn't that?
 
For that cash get the new RME HDSPe MADI  or HDSPe RayDAT and hook it up to SSL converters or else...
Great and fast drivers and flexible routing + better converters then Apollo.
 
My two cents..

there is a review in electronic musician this month.

Middleman


The reviews on the ADDA for this unit are just OK. The features and plugins of course stellar. The routing is exactly what most small studios need. I listened to some of the tracks and comparisons for this unit over at Gearlslutz and have to say, I was not impressed with the sound. I hope they focus on improving the ADDA results in the next version which is why I am going to wait awhile before I buy one.

If they could get the quality up to, say the standards of the 2192 or Lynx converters, I would be all in.

So I guess my RME Fireface UFX and my existing two Quad cards beats that unit hands down?