Universal Audio Apollo Solo USB Audio Interface
Product details
The Universal Audio Apollo Solo USB is a compact audio interface designed for musicians, producers, and audio engineers. It is part of the Apollo series of audio interfaces produced by Universal Audio, a renowned company in the audio industry known for its high-quality audio processing and analog modeling technology.
Key features of the Universal Audio Apollo Solo USB include:
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High-Quality Audio Conversion: The Apollo Solo USB is equipped with high-quality AD/DA converters, allowing for pristine audio capture and playback with up to 24-bit/192 kHz resolution. This ensures that your recordings maintain excellent sound quality.
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Real-time UAD Processing: One of the standout features of Universal Audio's Apollo interfaces is the real-time UAD processing. The Apollo Solo USB includes a built-in UAD-2 Solo DSP processor, which enables you to run Universal Audio's powerful UAD plugins without putting additional strain on your computer's CPU. This allows for low-latency, high-quality processing of audio effects during recording and mixing.
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Solo Core UAD Plug-ins: The interface comes with a bundle of UAD-2 Solo Core plugins, including emulations of classic analog hardware like compressors, EQs, and reverbs. These plugins are known for their accuracy and sound quality.
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Unison Preamp Technology: The Apollo Solo USB features Unison preamp technology, which emulates the impedance and gain staging of classic analog preamps. This allows you to use these preamps with compatible UAD plugins, creating a seamless integration of hardware and software processing.
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Compact and Portable: The Apollo Solo USB is a compact and portable audio interface, making it easy to take on the go or fit into smaller studio setups.
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Monitoring and Connectivity: It offers a headphone output for monitoring, along with a Hi-Z instrument input, a microphone preamp input, and line-level inputs and outputs. It connects to your computer via USB.
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Compatibility: The Apollo Solo USB is designed to work with both Windows and Mac computers, making it versatile for different setups.
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Included Software: With the Apollo Solo USB, you typically receive a bundle of software, including the Realtime Analog Classics plugin bundle, which includes some of Universal Audio's most popular plugin emulations.
Overall, the Universal Audio Apollo Solo USB is a high-quality and versatile audio interface with features tailored to musicians and producers who demand top-notch sound quality and the ability to use UAD plugins in their audio production workflow.
Shape your recordings into records.
Apollo Solo is the world’s finest Thunderbolt 3-powered desktop recording audio interface for Mac and Windows, giving you class-leading audio conversion, two mic preamps — so you can record through preamps from Neve, API, SSL, and more — and a suite of included UAD plug-ins for recording album-quality results, with near-zero latency.
Record Synths and Vocals through Iconic Preamps
With its two Unison™ preamps and front panel Hi‑Z instrument input, Apollo Solo lets you track in realtime through preamp and channel strip plug‑ins from Neve, Manley, API, and dozens more, giving you the same rich analog texture as the hardware used on decades of iconic music.
Get the Pro Sounds of Analog Hardware, Right on your Desktop
Out of the box, Apollo Solo's included plug-ins give you album-ready tones in realtime with professional tools like the UA 610-B Tube Preamp & EQ, Teletronix LA-2A tube compressor, amps from Marshall and Ampeg, and more. Plus, Apollo Solo lets you tap into the entire UAD plug-in library, giving you the proven hit-making sounds of Ocean Way Studios, Capitol Chambers, and hundreds more.
Best-in-Class Headphone Amplifier
Apollo Solo's onboard headphone output is louder and punchier, with lower noise and flatter frequency response versus any interface in its class. This means you can confidently track and mix using headphones, knowing you're hearing every sonic detail.
Record with a Fast, Natural Workflow using LUNA
Apollo Solo works with all major DAWs, but only LUNA Recording System gives you seamless integration with Apollo, for big analog studio sound — in realtime — using a host of built-in features and extensions from API console modeling to genuine Neve summing and integrated Studer tape.
Ready to Go
With its robust all-metal construction and bus-powered Thunderbolt 3 operation, Apollo Solo is the only "clutter-free" portable audio interface that truly delivers album-quality results. It’s like having a virtual analog studio that fits onto any desktop, and easily travels in your laptop bag.
UAD Plug-Ins vs. Analog Hardware
Watch Grammy-award winning producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon) put UAD plug‑ins to the test in a live session featuring electronic-soul artist Jamie Lidell.
