Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo Heritage Ed.

Hello! I'm a music producer and guitarist and this is the love of my life . Of course you need to take one second and think :" is this the investment that I want to ?" This just change your sound from cheap to Professional . I'm not just talking about the amazing pre-amp but you have a good bundle of plugin for a Crazy price . If you are guitarist or bass player trust me this is your brother .
But now I'll tell you one sad point you don't have enough input but they are enough for an home studio . Otherwise I suggest to you to take the one with more inputs and outputs .
Have fun you will never forget it . It's like the first love or the first sex.

Once you get past the setup (which can be a headache if you're on M1), this interface performs exactly how you would expect.

The sound quality is great, with low noise levels and true sounding output when ignoring the unison preamps. The controls on the hardware are easy to use after the initial learning curve.

The onboard DSPs are super useful for zero latency tracking, you just have to be careful not to max them out. Certain UAD plugins hog the space quite a bit, so I recommend removing any tracking plugins after you're done with them to make room for others when you're mixing.

Overall great product, only con is the initial setup and slight learning curve for the UAD software. UAD plugins themselves are high quality and sound amazing. The included plugins are more than enough to get you started.

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.

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.

I was using Quad MKII and decide to buy this Thunderbold Duo and of course just problem with not enough DSP for producing or mixing tracks for me if you work not more than 20 channel this will be enough but when projects are getting more channels and you need to use good compressors or effects that DSP will be not enough and UAD plugins just works on DSP power. so im thinking to get satellite already. and also if you need more channel for send and return things externally go for more cause there is just 2 real input in the same time
you will need to buy another ADAT interface to expand it digitally if needed. But at the end of the day im very happy with my purchase you can do really good sound with this card and unison plugins most if you tracking your synth or sounds externally. this one is the best for startup