Anybody out there know anything about using an Apollol AD16-X ( or similar) with Sonar? Or are Apollo products too Pro Tools specific?
 And if so, what is a good upgrade from my Tascam 1641 to something in the Apollo price range?

Do we have windows drivers for the Apollo yet?

Get the RME UFX, you'll never look back.

RME is always on top of things driver wise.

T

I never heard of the Apollo AD16-X and bing has never hear dof it neither. As a search came up with nothing.

I would stick with what is proven to work good and not purchase somethnig that you have no idea if it has good drivers, good pre-amps, good converters and so on.

Focusrite, MOTU, & RMe are all proven to work good. Get one of those

Cj

Universal Audio is pretty well thought of.

The UAD products work well with computers I've used them on.

http://www.sweetwater.com.tore/search.php?s=apollo

Lot of money but I'd sure like one.

Have to get a thunderbolt port on your computer though, I think.

May be he's talking about something else...

http://www.uaudio.com/int...atures;scroll=features

* Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7; Windows 7 support coming 2012.

T

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Get the RME UFX, you'll never look back.

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Not sure if you are talking apogee etc or UAD Apollo.

The Apollo is new and few reviews - SOS had one in the last month or so.  It looks like a good unit, like many others, but includes the UAD card(s).  This lets you add UAD effects going in, as well as post recording.  Cool.  AS UAD has said, they were going for clean preamps/conversion and let the software add the girth.  As such, the UAD ought to be more than competent for a $1000+ interface (minus the card).  RME, TC etc. have good (read pro) conversion in that price/feature area.

One caveat for the PC crowd - the drivers aren't available yet (the last I heard).  If you are running SONAR on a PC you would want to wait to hear how well the software makes it out of vaporware. 

As a side note, I've talked w/ more than 1 pro who has switched to UAD effects over analog mixing because "it sounds good enough" and recall.  They lose too much time (ie. money) doing the required "fixes" in analog.  So the UAD ought to work for us who haven't moved millions of units.

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Hey OP,
You talking UAD Apollo? or Apogee 16X http://apogeedigital.com/products/x-series.php ?

Blues: the top unit is http://www.uaudio.com/apollo ..so far window,thunderbolt is not supported ...on a good note there are good thnderbolt boards on 1155 socket...http://ca.asus.com/en/Mot...P8Z77V_PROTHUNDERBOLT/ and .. the http://ca.gigabyte.com/pr...ge.aspx?pid=4280#ov... I would think they will want to support win 8 so it might be a bit delayd !!

I'm very familiar with the Universal Audio Apollo, and have been doing a Pro Review of it over at Harmony Central. It's currently Mac-only, and while it's compatible with FireWire 400, it needs FireWire 800 to reach full bandwidth.

The Thunderbolt interface is optional-at-extra-cost; my sense is that it will ship in September, and sooner rather than later.

Windows drivers are not yet available, and I haven't gotten a firm timeline on when they're expected. When they do, I'll have to buy a FireWire 800 card for my computer... 

My fave feature is that the preamps are totally colorless, so if you use some of UA's console or channel strip emulation plugs, they have a very obvious effect. Also, there's UA DSP built-in, and you can monitor through them with virtually no latency...makes vocalists very happy, and you can print with effects easily, as well as record a dry feed if you think you might want to change the settings later.

I've had very good luck using the UAD-2 Quad board with Sonar X1, so I suspect that when Apollo has drivers, it will work well with Sonar too. If not...they'll hear about it in the Pro Review.

One of the more relevant Sonar aspects regarding UA's plug-ins is that Sonar's plugs are more bread-and-butter processors, whereas UA tends to produce more specialized plugs. IOW if you want a decent reverb or delay, Sonar can give them to you. But if you want a Lexicon 224 or Echorec Tape delay emulation, that's where UA shines. They complement each other well.