DISC Universal Audio Apollo Classic FireWire Audio Interface

Full Description

The Gold Standard in 24-bit/192 kHz Sound Quality

Designed to play a central role in studios running original Mac Pro towers or Windows 7 machines, Apollo FireWire delivers an uncompromising approach to audio quality. Building upon decades of UA hardware heritage, it offers extremely high-resolution sound, with the lowest THD and highest dynamic range in its class. Apollo FireWire?s four premium mic preamps and converters translate into recordings with astounding accuracy and depth - whether you?re tracking and overdubbing, or mixing and mastering.

Realtime UAD Plug-In Processing for Tracking, Mixing, and Mastering

While Apollo FireWire?s ''natural'' sound is exceedingly open and transparent, it can quickly deliver a wide range of classic analog tones and color via its Realtime UAD Processing. Featuring powerful onboard QUAD processing, Apollo FireWire?s DSP Acceleration allows for recording through UAD Powered Plug-Ins - with sub-2ms latency, regardless of buffer settings - letting you monitor and ''print'' audio with classic analog emulations from Ampex, Lexicon, Manley, Neve, Roland, SSL, Studer, and more.

Four Mic Preamps with Unison™ Technology

Apollo FireWire comes equipped with four Unison-enabled mic preamps, letting you track with colorful mic preamp sounds from Neve, API, and Universal Audio. An Apollo breakthrough, Unison technology nails the tone of these sought-after tube and solid state mic preamps - including their impedance, gain stage ''sweet spots'', and component-level circuit behaviors.

The secret to Unison is its hardware-software integration between Apollo?s mic preamps and its onboard UAD-2 processing. Simply place a selected tube or solid state preamp plug-in on your desired mic input, and record in real time through stunning emulations like the bundled UA 610-B Tube Preamp plug-in, or the Neve 1073 and API 212L.

Elegant Hardware Design and Workflow

One key feature of Apollo FireWire isn?t really a ''feature'' at all. It?s the numerous design details that give you a fast, natural workflow - and better results. There are physical front panel controls for all the most commonly used features, including Preamp and Monitor level knobs, channel selection, mic pad and low cut, phantom power, and dual headphone outs with independent level control. Smart Hi-Z inputs on the front panel detect when you've connected your guitar or bass. Sonically, Apollo's Monitor outputs are digitally controlled analog, so you don't lose audio resolution when you adjust gain.

Realtime Analog Classics Plus Bundle

With the included Realtime Analog Classics Plus plug-in bundle, you get a whole host of professional-quality plug-ins, including legendary compressors such as the 1176SE/LN Limiting Amplifiers and Fairchild 670 Legacy, Softube's stunning Amp Room Half-Stack and Bass Amp Room 8x10 guitar and bass amp emulations, the flexible and natural-sounding RealVerb Pro reverb, UA's landmark 610-B Tube Preamp and EQ plug-in, and much more besides.

Features

Audio Interface

• 18 x 24 simultaneous input/output channels
• Sample rates up to 192 kHz at 24-bit word length
• Two FireWire 800 ports facilitate daisy-chaining other FireWire devices
• Upgradeable to Thunderbolt 2 via Option Card (not included)
• Four high-resolution, ultra-transparent, digitally-controlled analog mic preamps
• Unison™ technology for deep integration with UAD preamp and pedal plug-ins
• Switchable low cut filter, 48V phantom power, pad, polarity inversion, and stereo linking
• Digitally-controlled analog monitor outputs maintains highest fidelity
• Two stereo headphone outputs with independent mix buses
• Independent front panel volume controls for headphone outputs
• Front panel pre-fader metering of monitor bus levels
• S/PDIF outputs can be set to mirror the monitor outputs

UAD-2 Inside

• QUAD Core DSP with four SHARC® processors
• Realtime UAD Processing on all analog and digital inputs via Console application
• Console Recall plug-in saves Console configurations inside DAW sessions for easy recall
• Same features and functionality as other UAD-2 devices when used with DAW
• Can be combined with other UAD-2 devices for increased mixing DSP
• Includes UAD Powered Plug-Ins ''Realtime Analog Classics Plus'' bundle
• Complete UAD plug-ins library is available at the UA online store

System Requirements

• (Win) Windows 7 64-Bit Edition w/SP1
• (Mac) OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, 10.9.x Mavericks, or 10.10.x Yosemite
• Available FireWire 800 port (on Windows systems, a qualified PCIe-to-FireWire adapter card is required)
• 4 gigabytes available disk space
• Internet connection to download software and authorize UAD plug-ins
• Compatible VST, Audio Units, RTAS, or AAX 64 plug-in host DAW software

Specifications

I/O Complement

• Microphone Inputs: 4
• High-Impedence (Hi-Z) Instrument Inputs: 2
• Analog Line Inputs: 8
• Analog Line Outputs: 8 (ten including monitor outputs)
• Analog Monitor Outputs: 2 (one stereo pair)
• Headphone Outputs: 2 Stereo
• ADAT: Up to eight channels via dual I/O ports with S/MUX
• S/PDIF: One stereo input, one stereo output
• FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b): Dual ports
• Thunderbolt (via Option Card, not included): Dual Ports
• Word Clock: 1 input, 1 output

A/D - D/A Conversion

• Supported Sample Rates (kHz): 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192
• Bit Depth Per Sample: 24
• Simultaneous A/D conversion: 8 channels
• Simultaneous D/A conversion: 14 channels
• Analog Round-Trip Latency: 1.1 milliseconds @ 96 kHz sample rate
• Analog Round-Trip Latency with four serial UAD-2 plug-ins via Console application: 1.1 milliseconds @ 96 kHz sample rate

Electrical

• Power Supplies: External AC to DC Power Supply Brick, Internal DC to DC Power Supply
• AC Input Connector Type: IEC Male
• AC Requirements: 100V - 240V AC, 50 - 60 Hz
• DC Connector Type: XLR 4-Pin Locking Male (Neutrik P/N NC4MDM3-H)
• DC Requirements: 12 VDC, +/- 5
• Maximum Power Consumption: 6.5 amperes

Dimensions

• Width: 19''
• Height: 1.75'' (1U rack space)
• Depth, Chassis Only: 12.125''
• Depth, Including Knob & Jack Protrusions: 13.5''
• Shipping Box (Width x Depth x Height): 24'' x 17'' x 8''

Weight

• Shipping Weight (with box & accessories): 18 pounds (8.2 kg)
• Weight (bare unit): 9.1 pounds (4.1 kg)