Fantastic explanation of how the UA hardware and software work. Straight forward, easy to understand, and incredibly well presented. One of the best tutorials on ANYTHING I've seen in a long time. Thanks!
I have to say Fab is an amazing teacher🙌🏾. He has has such a great way of explaining things really well in a simplistic and easy to digest way. Thank you. This video has been a great help.
Fab is such a great teacher. Is there an in depth, step by step Luna course available? Long time Logic user here but I'm seriously interested in Luna. Oh and btw... Michelle is awesome. Love her music!!
@@oluwaseyigrey7683 Steve Kinney has some great videos here that show a lot of the how-to recording/mixing functions of UA and Luna, both basic and advanced. Start there. UAD also released a numbered series on Apollo & UAD devices. I started with #1 & kept watching until I could make some basic recordings. All available on youtube
@@kentdemonbreun6047 Thank you. 'Will do. I'm just super used to the Logic interface. Hence, when I open LUNA, I do seem pretty lost. I'll watch 'em videos though. Thanks again.
@@oluwaseyigrey7683 best of luck my friend. The interface is very different, and definitely a learning curve involved, but it is a very well thought out & really robust system. I have stopped using everything else but Luna for all my mixes going forward. Some days its a challenge, but I have gotten some really great mixes so far
Great music! I love my Apollo Twin X as a versatile interface, but I highly recommend adding a good external microphone pre (Neve, Great River, Daking, etc) if possible -- esp. for pop and rock recording. The difference is striking.
but how can you add external pre..the line inputs is a combo jack and it does not bybass the preamp in real terms..i have apollo twin mkii..and i am also looking to buy an external pre..please suggest how to do it..cant find the videos..
@@amonchhetri1053 The line input passes through the Apollo’s preamp, so while not a perfect straight wire, when set to zero (+10dB) the internal preamp’s affect on the signal is arguably minimal (input THD at -114dB). In practice, the sound and transient response of my external preamp are very much evident.
Amazing! I record my vocals with an Apollo Twin + SM7B Mic. Are you using something like a cloud lifter for this? I don't and have never had problems recording without it, but I am wondering if I could get more out of the pre-amp (I am mostly using the UAD Neve 1084) if I would use a cloud lifter or something similar?
Great video! What about singing live and monitoring through the studio monitors? Is there feedback or latency errors when hearing yourself live through them? Thank you 💪
Good morning ! I recently purchased an Apollo Twin x Duo, very nice. I wanted to ask if it is possible to record a stereo reverb from the console window to any DAW. if I put it in insert it records in mono, if I put it in aux it cannot be recorded. Am I doing something wrong? A thousand thanks . great !!!!!
So, if a guitarist wanted to use say Helix Native with low latency monitoring - would that go in console (or is that UA only) - or does it work in Luna - or does it matter for non UA plugins?
You guys are always life savers! I have my apollo twin hooked up to a great river preamp. All of the sudden when I set to LINE level (preamp connected to Apollo twin via 1/4 set to input) the PHANTOM POWER will not turn on. If I set it to MIC level - phantom turns on. What am I doing wrong ? :( thank you!
I've spent the last few hours trying register my Apollo x4 but when I switch it on, no lights come on the unit, the green light is on the power connection. Your support page doesn't have any answers and I can't find an online tutorial that addresses the issue. I know my thunderbolt cable is good because my Dread 65 & Ruby connect with it.
The issue will likely be the OS. In order to use Twin X, you need to be running at least UAD 9.10. The OS would need to be at least Sierra. But then you'd also be stuck with whatever older version of PT that will run on that. So it's a dicey setup for sure. Good luck!
@@UniversalAudio will i need an older thunderbolt cable or will the one that comes with the apollo twin x duo work fine with this mid 2011 imac? I'm running High Sierra os.
Could you help me out, I’m having problems with Luna . The Render is maxing out regardless of what i do. I tried to solve the problem but it cracks pops and stutters. Linked to the render amazing out. I read it was something to do with external screen resolution but as yet I’ve not solved the problem and luna is useless to me. I spent £500 on the api and summing and all i can do with it is open it and look at the pretty colours. Any idea what’s going on ? Thanks
Hey Camera Ramblings, get in touch with Customer Support, they'll walk you through some detailed troubleshooting steps. help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/210253543-Contact-Support
@@UniversalAudio Will do thanks, I really hope i can sort it as I love using it. So much potential. I’ll call them tomorrow, missed the boat today as they close at 1pm in the uk,
he says some are included with LUNA! total BS, nothing is included in LUNA! he said that console emulation it's built in, and is not it's like 300 bucks, waht a scam
Luna's console emulation works out of the box and you need not spend anything additional. Oxide tape and Shape are included. Of course you can spend a ton on the many great plugins UA makes (I have), but you really don't have to get started. Like any gear - it's what you do with it.
To have Luna you must have an apollo interface that comes with a number of plugins, Luna also has a few like the previous comment say. Be easy and weight your words, scam is a serious accusation.
Wait a minute when you say Luna Apollo and console are all one. What’s the benefit over logic? You’re making it sound like I shouldn’t use logic and now I gotta switch and use Luna which I don’t feel like switching daws learning and downloading and spending hours screwing around. I’m already in logic. Can logic be one with console and Apollo the way Luna can? I see it’s similar but still.
this video is long overdue. I eventually figured much of this out through a ton of different articles and videos. thanks UA. switching to the X4 was the most valuable upgrade for my projects.
So here is where I wonder about the whole spark native thing and all the buzz about using interfaces other than Apollo, how can the plugs compare without the hardware I’m good with my Apollo X and my new X6
If ones uses the plugins only for mixing, the spark thing can suffice, but if you love to record with unison, you will always need an apollo. What spark may make obsolete are the expansion dsp boxes.
I use rack Apollos, but there are lots of different interfaces up and down the food chain that are useful for different reasons. Maybe you want an interface with (arguably) better converters than Apollo, like a Lynx Aurora(n). Or maybe you already own a small portable unit like an M-Track for using soft synths with a laptop at gigs. Or you're sketching song ideas at a friends place without the larger gear. They're smaller and cheaper than an Apollo Twin-and they have MIDI. But without the UADx versions, no Apollo was a no-go in these situations. I'd happily use UADx in these settings because tracking a vocal with just a scooch of 1176 sounds better than nothing.
its mindboggeling that that thing is so great and expansive and they haver to use a headphone splitter audio adepter for the Twin. Put 2 fkn headphone aoutputs on there, recording someone is ass with an adapter cause it cuts the volume for both listeners in half.
Great tutorial video! And.... I love how the mic also picked up the very light sound of his fingers on the MIDI-keyboard, playing the synth parts... You can hear the rhythmical timbre very light in the recording 🙂
I love this. You two are terrific together. Fab is a great teacher, and Michelle you are amazing to listen to. UA...any word on LUNA for Windows Apollo TWIN USB yet?
