Thanks a bunch Ben, I'm an artist and this is all I need to record my own vocals when it comes to my vocal chain. Glad I watched this, because I have the arrow and boy am I glad I didn't have to come out of pocket for the uad twin would've been a waste of money for myself.
If you have an Arrow and (for example) want to do some intense master bus processing within Console, you could just use one plugin within console at time and keep reprinting and processing more (while adjusting gain within the DAW post Console tracking). Doing this you'll be able to process with however much UAD plugins you want versus running out of DSP power with 2-3. Sure it may take longer but this way you'll still be able to process with as many UAD plugins you want. Problem solved.
How about running the interface through Logic, only using say the preamps and maybe another plugin. Then using your software plugins(Waves) in Logic on top of that? Will it allow you use a combination of the 2? Worth noting I'm on the new M1 Macbook, so processing isn't an issue really 😊
sure you could do this. you would set the inputs up in UAD console if you wanted to use unison preamps, then you would add the other plugins as required in Logic. Only thing is that native plugins will all add latency when tracking. That's one of the huge advantages of UAD stuff its latency free as the hardware takes care of it all. But yeah you can combine different manufacturers plugins no problem
It would be great if you could show how a Solo could work along with a UAD-2 Satellite USB ...when the Solo has an amp sim like the Friedman's that takes it all and all the FX have to go elsewhere.
thanks a lot ! exactly what I was looking for too :-) I have mostly 4 busses with comp, eq, reverb and my master chain. I think this will be a little to small for my needs. maybe I go for the quad :-)
Hi Ben, broad question if I may. How good is the UAD Solo or Twin at capturing quality, professional audio. With and without the plugins. Perhaps when compared to, say, a Focusrite Clarett. Very useful video, thanks!
Yeah no worries. All the UAD stuff is industry standard, top of the line stuff. The preamps and the A to D conversion are superb. In my opinion they are the best on the market. The best thing is that without a unison preamp they are a totally clean great sounding pre, but with a unison pre you can turn it in to a Neve or SSL or Helios.
Hi Ben, great content!! Very helpful, i am looking forward to get one of these, i have a fast track pro m-audio for a long time, so it will definetly be an improvement… i was wondering, since i am a very begginer in the mixing/recording universe, do you think the Twin Duo will be enough or the Quad is too much? How many plugins does the Twin Duo can run, i am planning, to use the plugins on maybe three guitars, bass, drum samples, vocals, overdubs, and so on, not at the same time tho… can i use the uad plugins, after the tracking, without using the Apollo Dsp, using the computer ram?
Thanks dude! Yeah the twin is great, if you can afford a quad definitely get one. The extra DSP is always worth it. You can use some of the new plugins that run native on the computer, but only a few different plugins are available.
Sorry if this is a silly question but just trying to understand how UAD stuff works. If you record vocals, with these plugins being ran on the Apollo interface, are the plugin effects printed into the audio? So could you then remove a plugin to regain DSP space for a new track, but still have the previous plugins retained within the previous audio track you recorded? Hope that makes sense!
yeah you can totally do that. If you are in Luna you can choose plugins you want to print and plugins you just want to monitor thru, all at near zero latency. Then when you disarm the track the DSP from those recorded plugins is available for something else. You can do pretty much the same with any DAW and the UAD console software too
Thank you! So helpfull! Can you use the universal audio plugins that came with the audio interface with the cpu processor? I have two quesitons, if you can answer me I’d be very gratefull… If the audio interface do not have midi ports, can you use midi by usb and the ports of the interface for instruments at the same time without problem in you daw? I’m between the Apollo Solo and Arturia audiofuse, which one you recommend? Is latency a big issue? Well, sorry if it is too much hahaha just answer if you can and want… Have a nice day!
Thanks dude. No you can't use UAD plugins with the CPU, only UAD hardware. Yeah I've used a small midi keyboard over USB in Luna no problems. As for which interface, it depends what you really need. If you need more inputs then maybe the Arturia, if you want to use UAD software and luna then maybe the Solo. Hope that helps
@@BenHartwellGuitar Thanks man! Yes, it helps! More than the software, my biggest issue is latency while using amp smulations and plugins, is a considerable difference? Thanks for taking the time of answering! Peace!
basically, anything that has complex things such as harmonic distortion, it tanks the DSP. But if you stick with regular EQs and compressors, you get an average of 4-5 plugins. Interesting and for the price. I am actually kind of disappointed. Also, I just found that UA has a page called 'UAD-2 DSP Chart' which mentions all the plugins and their average percentage usage.
Do you mean like 4-5 plugins per audio track or 4-5 plugins total for the entire song file? 4-5 per audio track will work fine for me, but if thats all I can use for the entire project, no way lol
@@smithtrial9065 Depending on the plugin, it's 4-5 plugins in total. But there are some more lightweight EQs and compressors which means that you can stack them up to 15 times. Antelope Audio has an interface with their own recreations and they can handle much more per project than UAD Solo can.
3 times the channel strip and its game over?!?! Aud want you to buy 100 dsp cards to handle a bigger session with only uad plugins or what?!?! What a mess🙈🤢 Where it the reason to spend 1200 euro and load 3 plugins?!?!
Uad is so fucked, honestly, they sell interfaces with no cable and how is possible that you can run only a couple of plugins, I have the opportunity to work with an internal card on a pc in the past and it wasn’t like that.
@@wyldkard4461 yeah of course. You can just use it as an interface and use the preamps and converters. But you should definitely check out the plugins ;)
Thanks a bunch Ben, I'm an artist and this is all I need to record my own vocals when it comes to my vocal chain. Glad I watched this, because I have the arrow and boy am I glad I didn't have to come out of pocket for the uad twin would've been a waste of money for myself.
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot, Ben.
If you have an Arrow and (for example) want to do some intense master bus processing within Console, you could just use one plugin within console at time and keep reprinting and processing more (while adjusting gain within the DAW post Console tracking). Doing this you'll be able to process with however much UAD plugins you want versus running out of DSP power with 2-3. Sure it may take longer but this way you'll still be able to process with as many UAD plugins you want. Problem solved.
Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. Greetings from Colombia
Wow thank you so much! I was trying to find if it can run capitol chambers! Thanks man!
Thanks Personal Superhero!!!
How about running the interface through Logic, only using say the preamps and maybe another plugin. Then using your software plugins(Waves) in Logic on top of that?
Will it allow you use a combination of the 2? Worth noting I'm on the new M1 Macbook, so processing isn't an issue really 😊
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sure you could do this. you would set the inputs up in UAD console if you wanted to use unison preamps, then you would add the other plugins as required in Logic. Only thing is that native plugins will all add latency when tracking. That's one of the huge advantages of UAD stuff its latency free as the hardware takes care of it all. But yeah you can combine different manufacturers plugins no problem
Wow , thanks ! It’s helpful🤙🏻
Thanks bro, these videos are amazing!
thanks dude!
Great Video! Needed this! Good work!
Thanks!
It would be great if you could show how a Solo could work along with a UAD-2 Satellite USB ...when the Solo has an amp sim like the Friedman's that takes it all and all the FX have to go elsewhere.
yeah, defo need to do this in a future vid
Great informative video
A very informative video 🙏
thanks a lot ! exactly what I was looking for too :-) I have mostly 4 busses with comp, eq, reverb and my master chain. I think this will be a little to small for my needs. maybe I go for the quad :-)
yeah go quad, you always need more cores!
Thanks for the video
Can you try ssl compression and Antares. 🎉 and tell me results as reply thanks. 😅
How did you get that screen layout ? You don't use the unison slot? And does it make a difference? And I agree the DISSTRESSOR is the shit!
which screen layout do you mean? for recording yeah I use the unison slots all the time, love them. Yeah its amazing!
Hi Ben, broad question if I may. How good is the UAD Solo or Twin at capturing quality, professional audio. With and without the plugins. Perhaps when compared to, say, a Focusrite Clarett. Very useful video, thanks!
Yeah no worries. All the UAD stuff is industry standard, top of the line stuff. The preamps and the A to D conversion are superb. In my opinion they are the best on the market. The best thing is that without a unison preamp they are a totally clean great sounding pre, but with a unison pre you can turn it in to a Neve or SSL or Helios.
@@BenHartwellGuitar Got it, thanks!
Hello, how do you use the apollo plugins on ableton ?
Can you run other non uad plugins on these things, id run a stock eq, and a 1176, la2a then if i can get a 4th alot of people i record need auto tune.
Can it run a 1073, Cl1B and auto tune!
Hi Ben, great content!! Very helpful, i am looking forward to get one of these, i have a fast track pro m-audio for a long time, so it will definetly be an improvement… i was wondering, since i am a very begginer in the mixing/recording universe, do you think the Twin Duo will be enough or the Quad is too much? How many plugins does the Twin Duo can run, i am planning, to use the plugins on maybe three guitars, bass, drum samples, vocals, overdubs, and so on, not at the same time tho… can i use the uad plugins, after the tracking, without using the Apollo Dsp, using the computer ram?
Thanks dude! Yeah the twin is great, if you can afford a quad definitely get one. The extra DSP is always worth it. You can use some of the new plugins that run native on the computer, but only a few different plugins are available.
All I want it for is to run Neve 1073 in uninson and CL1B as one of the inserts. You think I'll be jus fine?
just tried it and it used 61.7% on my arrow, so should work fine.
Sorry if this is a silly question but just trying to understand how UAD stuff works.
If you record vocals, with these plugins being ran on the Apollo interface, are the plugin effects printed into the audio? So could you then remove a plugin to regain DSP space for a new track, but still have the previous plugins retained within the previous audio track you recorded? Hope that makes sense!
yeah you can totally do that. If you are in Luna you can choose plugins you want to print and plugins you just want to monitor thru, all at near zero latency. Then when you disarm the track the DSP from those recorded plugins is available for something else. You can do pretty much the same with any DAW and the UAD console software too
@@BenHartwellGuitar Ah great, thanks very much for your time!
Thank you! So helpfull! Can you use the universal audio plugins that came with the audio interface with the cpu processor? I have two quesitons, if you can answer me I’d be very gratefull… If the audio interface do not have midi ports, can you use midi by usb and the ports of the interface for instruments at the same time without problem in you daw? I’m between the Apollo Solo and Arturia audiofuse, which one you recommend? Is latency a big issue? Well, sorry if it is too much hahaha just answer if you can and want… Have a nice day!
Thanks dude. No you can't use UAD plugins with the CPU, only UAD hardware. Yeah I've used a small midi keyboard over USB in Luna no problems. As for which interface, it depends what you really need. If you need more inputs then maybe the Arturia, if you want to use UAD software and luna then maybe the Solo. Hope that helps
@@BenHartwellGuitar Thanks man! Yes, it helps! More than the software, my biggest issue is latency while using amp smulations and plugins, is a considerable difference? Thanks for taking the time of answering! Peace!
Hi...so one need to print the tracks as you go along to be able to use these UAD plugins?
You don’t need to but it would definitely help if you’re low on DSP
Thanks
How many Uad plugins I can use in logic while mixing ??
2 years late but whatever Mac or MacBook you have if you’re doing it in logic I’m pretty sure it goes off the core on your computer
would the apollo solo do wave tune?
Waves Tune Vocal Pitch Correction? that just runs on the cpu so you could use pretty much any interface
Have you ever experienced your arrow or solo powering on and off randomly, if so what is the fix?
Thanks for your time!
yeah I have had this. only when its plugged in to my MacBook though
@@BenHartwellGuitar thank you!
I've read somewhere that you have to unplug it everytime you're done because your mac keeps sending juice to the the apollo solo continuously :)
basically, anything that has complex things such as harmonic distortion, it tanks the DSP.
But if you stick with regular EQs and compressors, you get an average of 4-5 plugins. Interesting and for the price. I am actually kind of disappointed.
Also, I just found that UA has a page called 'UAD-2 DSP Chart' which mentions all the plugins and their average percentage usage.
Do you mean like 4-5 plugins per audio track or 4-5 plugins total for the entire song file? 4-5 per audio track will work fine for me, but if thats all I can use for the entire project, no way lol
@@smithtrial9065 Depending on the plugin, it's 4-5 plugins in total. But there are some more lightweight EQs and compressors which means that you can stack them up to 15 times.
Antelope Audio has an interface with their own recreations and they can handle much more per project than UAD Solo can.
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These chips are ridiculously weak.
3 times the channel strip and its game over?!?!
Aud want you to buy 100 dsp cards to handle a bigger session with only uad plugins or what?!?!
What a mess🙈🤢
Where it the reason to spend 1200 euro and load 3 plugins?!?!
To be honest it's pretty disgusting considering the premium for the interface and plugin.
Uad is so fucked, honestly, they sell interfaces with no cable and how is possible that you can run only a couple of plugins, I have the opportunity to work with an internal card on a pc in the past and it wasn’t like that.
buffer size ???
Luna does it all automatically, no need to set a buffer size.
Wooooooooah dude. What a garbage product
What’s the point of having this in ltertace then smh
It makes it easier on the CPU in the computer as the interface does all the hard work
I make beat will that interface suit my need ?
Definitely. It’s a great way to get into UAD plugins
Can i use Just the interface without use the pluggins ?
@@wyldkard4461 yeah of course. You can just use it as an interface and use the preamps and converters. But you should definitely check out the plugins ;)