These software components provide intuitive control over the interfaces’ settings, routing, and DSP processing. The Apollo Twin X Quad Heritage Edition features two high quality Unison preamps, a single guitar/bass DI, four line outputs and a headphone output. You can also add eight more inputs by connecting a channel strip via ADAT. The controls feel great too, with a precise gain/volume knob and features like monitor mute, mono, low-cut, phase inversion and more. This thing thrives at the heart of a recording setup! These enhancements result in more accurate and transparent audio reproduction, capturing the subtleties of the original sound source with precision. Apollo Twin X USB improves upon the original Apollo Twin’s gold-standard audio quality with completely redesigned A/D and D/A conversion, giving you increased dynamic range and ultra-low THD. This elite-class conversion gives you a spacious, organic sound that easily rivals dedicated high-end converters. The DUO Core Processor delivers 127 dB of dynamic range with almost zero latency. Users of the Apollo Twin X can combine up to four Thunderbolt Apollos and six total UAD-2 devices - so you can add I/O and DSP as your studio gets bigger.

However, the Apollo Twin X may offer slightly improved latency performance due to its enhanced DSP capabilities. Software and Compatibility The Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Thunderbolt 3 includes the Realtime Analog Classic suite which gives you sounds from guitar and bass amps such as Marshall Plexi Guitar Amp, Ampeg SVT-VR, and more.The DSP processing capabilities of these interfaces allow users to run complex audio effects and virtual instruments without taxing the computer’s CPU. On the other hand, the Apollo Twin X provides increased flexibility with four analog inputs (mic/line) and six analog outputs (line), allowing for more extensive routing and connectivity possibilities.

UAD Powered Plug-ins have earned their reputation for being some of the most accurate emulations of analog audio equipment ever created. The astonishing processing power of the UAD platform is what makes these plug-ins sound so great. You simply can’t get the depth, color, and character these plug-ins have without devoting huge CPU resources to them. Best of all, Apollo Twin X QUAD lets you record your audio through UAD plug-ins in real time with sub-2ms latency. When you buy the Apollo Twin X QUAD Heritage Edition, you’ll receive a premium suite of five award-winning plug-in titles: Playing some classic test songs like Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ and Dr Dre’s ‘What’s The Difference’ gives us a revealing sound on the former with its complex instrumentation and a punchy, lively timbre from the latter. We’re already impressed even with just a cursory listen and the Apollo’s dynamic range on output is immediately obvious. It sounds glorious. These updates can include new features, enhanced performance, and added compatibility with the latest operating systems and DAW versions.The Apollo Twin X Quad Heritage Edition from Universal Audio is an outstanding Thunderbolt 3 audio interface with some interesting features. While designed in a lovely desktop format, it features a host of inputs and outputs with the option to expand via ADAT. The components are all studio quality, resulting in high fidelity recordings. There are plenty of handy controls on-board and a Both the Apollo Twin and Apollo Twin X are compatible with Universal Audio’s comprehensive software ecosystem, including the UA Console application and the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform.

Both interfaces feature a combination of analog inputs and outputs. The Apollo Twin typically offers two analog inputs (mic/line) and four analog outputs (line). One of the key differences between native and DSP-based systems is that the processing resources available in the latter are fixed. A DSP chip has a certain amount of memory and can perform a certain number of calculations in a given time frame, and each plug-in you load grabs a fixed share of these resources when you load it. This arrangement has the advantage of being inherently stable: because these DSP resources aren't shared with non-music tasks, the system can tell in advance whether there's enough juice left to run the plug-in you want to run, and it will continue to run reliably even as the DSP load approaches 100 percent. On the down side, however, it's also inherently inflexible. Not only is it not possible for a single plug-in to span multiple DSP chips, but in previous versions of UA's Console utility, this was also true of plug-in chains. So, to use a series of plug-ins on the same channel, they all had to run on the same DSP chip, and you could only have one chip's worth of processing per channel. However, the Apollo Twin X offers an advantage with its dual ADAT ports, doubling the potential input and output channels when compared to the Apollo Twin.Uncompromising analog design, superior components, and premium build quality Free, industry-leading technical support — on the phone and online — from knowledgeable audio engineers If you're after Universal Audio quality with the ability to run their UAD plugins across a full mix, plus have option to add additional inputs when you need to, this is the interface for you Features We Love: UAD Plug-ins