Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo Heritage Ed. Reviews

Battle tested and brilliant

The interface has solid build quality. The converters are top notch and the sound quality is also excellent. Personally i don't care that much about DSP since my laptop has more than enought juice, but it is nice to have. Now to the juice and, most probably the reason you want to get the Apollo, the plugins. There is a wide variety of high quality plugins that cater to a plethora of music genres and different needs. They will not make you a professional, but they will give your sound that extra mile that it needs. Overall, I am very very satisfied with the Apollo Twin X Duo. I am sure it will serve me for many years to come.

Great product, but be aware..

Sounds great, very good preamps, quality in both hardware and software. But be aware, when I bought it I was impressed by its functions with using effects direct in recordings with no latency. What they don't tell you, is that this interface can't handle many effects before it says stop, and you get the message that it can't handle more plugins. My frustration made me buy a satellite octacore 3 at the same price as this one to get used it as I would, and that's a big cost. But that said, my recordings sounds better than ever, and I'm very pleased with the quality of UA software, but I've spend much more money than I've thought I would. Two advices; you don't have to spend extra for software boundless, you'll get lots of offers from universal audio. Number two; arturia audiofuse rev2 is an excellent interface at a lower price, and arturia has lots of good software. You have also the possibility to subscribe to UA spark for about 150$ yearly, and that means you'll get access to much of UA's software with any interface you have, and that's also a very good alternative. If I would say anything negative about the hardware, I miss more than one headphone out, something the arturia audiofuse has 4 of so that's said. In summon, UA is much like Apple, many good products, but with a high pricetag. And one more thing, universal audio has their daw Luna, very good interface to use with their software.

huge difference

I'm new enough to recording. I have this running into a Mac mini 2 on Logic. The difference in sound recording quality and absolute ease of use is worth all of the cost. Even with the basic set of UA plugins the sound is amazing.

Worth every penny

As the headline says, this was worth every penny! The Apollo is a wonderful audio interface, and the suite of plug-ins only make it that much more enjoyable and exciting to use.

A great buy for anyone looking to upgrade his/her studio setup!

One of the best

The quality of this is top notch. I wish plugins would be less expensive but you get few of them included which would cover most of the needs.

Worth buying

Believe it or not, I definitely feel it was a worthy purchase as the bundled software I got with these are pretty amazing and the interface itself is an upgrade to my space.

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The best

I think this really is one of the best Interfaxes out there. If you can afford it, don’t hesitate.

Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo

Very cool sound card, the quality is just excellent

Great product if you are a mac owner

Love the zero latency, UAD console and all the plugins. My favourites are the ENGL Savage 120 amp and C-Suite C-VOX. The latter is a great noise suppressor for microphones. Amps sound great. It takes a bit of time to try out all the cab options etc to get the right sound.. But eventually you'll get there. The build quality of the device is superb and it's pretty intuitive to work with those buttons on the device.

On the bad side, Windows drivers just suck. I've had lots of problems with them and eventually just bought a mac. I've got a motherboard with TB3-4 support and everything from getting it to even connect to the PC has been a pain. I managed to get everything working but still got ~3 times a week total freeze of audio drivers & sometimes there were 1s hiccups... I probably messed ~3 months on Windows. I even upgraded to Windows 11 and reinstalled everything. Eventually I gave up and bought a Mac.

Great Interface!

Package came in a very good shape and the quality of interface is great.

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Hi! I've been recording music for 15 years and I've had a lot of interfaces. And even the old version of apollo doesn't sound like this new one! The upper frequencies are more transparent and detailed and there is no cloudy bottom and have become more detailed. I don't see a competitor on the market for this device at this price! Buy it and you won't regret it!

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The best of its kind!

The best sound card in the world

In my opinion, the best preamps in the world are installed in this sound card. Perfect sound. 2 DSP, more than enough for me personally. I still don't understand how Universal Audio could create such a masterpiece. I like it more than x6 or x4 because it is compact.

Good build quality but it has a lot of flaws

TLDR: It's a good audio interface, but my SSL2, which costs five times less, sounds about the same! I didn't feel any quality difference.

Pros:

- DSP;

- Excellent build quality;

- Free DAW included (LUNA);

- UA plugins;

- Unison preamps (ability to switch input impedance, etc.);

Cons:

- Limited Windows compatibility;

- For the price, Universal Audio should have given us better mic preamps;

- If you need DSP processing, you can use Rogue Ameba Loopback and your favorite VST/AU plugins; No need to pay ~ 1000 euros for the DSP;

- The console app doesn't allow to add more than four plugins to the insert; there is a workaround, but come on: this sound card costs 1000 euros; I don't want to deal with such issues in this price range;

- Why does it have to install a new macOS kernel extension? I don't get it;

Maybe it's just me, but a simple quality USB interface like SSL 2 suits my needs better. Sometimes less is more.

I am happy with the interface

It’s powerful and gave me quality in my recordings. Would recommend to everyone

She is simply the best!

Very cool thing! The only thing is that 2 DSPs are missing. If you have money, then it is better to take X Quad

Love it! Surprised!

I was familiar enough with the Universal Audio products through their hardware compressors and preamps. Love it! They are so clever and quality! Then, I blindly decided to try their audio interfaces, and yeap, I didn't regret it at all! For this price, it is one of the better solutions (I switched from Apogee systems). Only minuses - not easy to install with Mac OS system compare to Apogee.

The sound quality is perfect, way better if I compare it with Scarlett, RME, Audio Kontrol, and others in a range of this price even with Apogee (Apogee is great but in their expensive versions). Definitely, this is a great solution to have the best Audio Interface for its price.

Apollo twin X

Had to upgrade my iMac to be able to use this TB3 but I’ve been working with Apollo Interface for a while now and I’ve never fall in love with any interface like I do with Apollo now. Just has great features, sounds good and doesn’t use your system cpu. Love it !!!

Everything I wanted and more.

Out of the box, a beautiful piece of kit. I pair this with my SM7B and it is perfect for what I do. I had my eye on this for a while and was juggling between the this and the SOLO, but thankfully I went with this one to take advantage of more DSP. Nothing bad to say apart from not incl. a thunderbolt cable but I knew about this prior, just would be nice for the price point.