There's not much benefit to this Solo interface given the severely restricted DSP power AND given its reliance on a laptop if you're using it as a standalone preamp. So my overall opinion is I would not buy this and instead just rely on in-the-box plugins. Welcome to UA Support How can we help UA Connect Manuals Native UAD Plug-In Manuals UAFX Manuals Volt Manuals Apollo & UAD-2 Manuals UA Microphone. My mistake for not understanding that before buying. But nope! Gotta have the laptop providing Thunderbolt power (not simply USB-C PD). The idea was to use it as a versatile mic preamp (SM58 > UAD Apollo Solo > 1/4' line level stereo). I figured I could power it off a newer USB-C PD PSU, and that the Solo would just use its last config. The Apollo Solo doesn't have enough computing power.Īlso it MUST be powered by your laptop which I didn't realize. Like I'll add VOXBOX to Unison, and then I can't add a 2nd plugin (e.g.
