UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt 3 Reviews

I have once octo and it Runs out of recources so I Must run a second in chain.

The First Two devices where an Apollo x8p and a satelite octo and in combo this is real a Beast

Why i combine this two … means three devices (apollo and satelite)?

It give me the power to record live with Plugins and do the rest of mastering within the (now two octos).

To get the Most out of your hardware you Must take care on both ends (live and Playback).

For the mastering i need more Plugins than for live playing … so this Plugin chains Need more DSP Cores

Mostly not more than 3-4 plugins but keep hands on drums you need more Playback power for the plugins

Means 3 toms , snare , hihat, 3 crash and basedrum need each a seperated Channel and this Need in Playback for 2 Guitars , bass and vocals to record a Bunch of Cores … so and this is where the apollo comes to Play ground … the bass and Guitars can in one step recorded and in a second step the vocals … and let the mastered drums in Playback for the rest of recording session run from Track.

And also the bass and the guitars from the past step bevor record the vocals to bring the full ambience to the singers fully mastered … so in this case i need a setup in 3 different rooms and let the streams Walk thruth Dante to reach all rooms in case my Mac Stands as the main machine to let record and Playback all this sources … but once is very bad: this plugins you buy with each hardware the same and you cannot Exchange this Double licenses to any one…

As much as I love and use the Spark plug in offerings, the plug in's that I use day to day require the dedicated DSP that only the satellites offer. I often create mixes that evoke the era of large format mixing consoles and racks of digital reverb-all at 96K! There is no other way I know of to create that other than having a pile of UAD plugs.

If you don’t know already, Apollo plug-ins use a lot of DSP. I’m new to recording so I bought a Twin X and it really didn’t have enough DSP for me and I don’t use a lot of tracks. Anyway, a friend turned me onto this and now I’m rocking! Lots of power and I can record and mix without worrying about running out gas. I now have ten cards instead of two and it’s cheaper than upgrading to a bigger interface. Highly recommended!