Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo Gen 2

The Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Duo Gen 2 is a 10x6 desktop Thunderbolt audio interface featuring two Unison™ mic preamps, elite-class 24-bit / 192 kHz audio conversion, DUO Core DSP processing, Auto-Gain, Apollo Monitor Correction, Bass Management, and a premium suite of UAD plug-ins, designed for professional audio production on both Mac and Windows platforms.

Key Features and Benefits

The Apollo Twin X offers the widest dynamic range and lowest distortion among Apollo interfaces, ensuring that every detail in your recordings is captured with absolute clarity. The dual Unison™ mic preamps provide authentic emulations of iconic hardware from brands like Neve, API, Avalon, and Manley. Record with genuine analogue warmth and character, perfect for any genre or sound design project. You can tap into a comprehensive library of more than 200 UAD plug-ins, including award-winning processors like the Capitol Chambers reverb and the EL8 Distressor. This extensive collection offers unmatched versatility for mixing and mastering.

With the integrated Apollo Monitor Correction, users can mix confidently in any environment or with headphones, ensuring consistent sound across all playback systems. The Auto-Gain feature automatically adjusts input levels across multiple sources, saving time and ensuring that no take is missed during recording sessions. Bass management allows you to add a subwoofer to your setup and hear low-end detail in your mixes with precision, improving your monitoring capabilities. The UAD Console app enables quick configuration of low-latency cue mixes, plug-in routing, and immersive audio monitoring, while features like Auto-Gain, Bass Management, and Plug-In Scenes help streamline any production workflow.

The Apollo Twin X includes thousands of pounds' worth of UAD plug-ins, giving users access to iconic processors from Fairchild, Teletronix, and more with the choice of Essentials+ or Studio+ editions.

The Ultimate Desktop Audio Interface

Engineered for modern music producers, the Apollo Twin X Duo Gen 2 offers a powerful combination of high-end audio conversion, Duo Core DSP, and real-time processing, ensuring that professional-grade sound is accessible from any desktop.

Record with Legendary Preamps

The Apollo Twin X includes two Unison™ mic preamps and a Hi‑Z instrument input on the front panel, allowing for real-time recording with vintage emulations of classic gear. These authentic analogue sounds, used on countless hit records, add richness and texture to any recording.

Mix Like the Pros

Whether you're working in a small project studio or a professional setting, the Apollo Twin X provides access to world-class mixing tools. With built-in Teletronix LA-2A compressors, Pultec EQs, and Marshall amps, users can shape their sound with industry-standard plug-ins right out of the box.

High-Resolution Playback for Detailed Listening

Now featuring UA’s highest-resolution digital-to-analogue converters, the Apollo Twin X ensures pristine audio playback, whether you're monitoring through speakers or headphones. With Apollo Monitor Correction, your mixes will translate accurately across any system.

Streamlined Workflow with UAD Console App

The UAD Console app replicates the heart of an analogue studio in a digital format, making it easy to control plug-in routing, monitoring, and mixing. Features like Auto-Gain, Bass Management, and Plug-In Scenes enhance efficiency, ensuring you stay in creative flow.

Hybrid Processing for Large Projects

Utilise the DUO Core DSP and native processing from your computer to handle large sessions with complex plug-in chains. This hybrid system delivers performance that far exceeds native-only setups, providing flexibility for demanding production environments.

Scalable for Expanding Studios

As your studio grows, the Apollo Twin X can expand with you. Connect up to four Thunderbolt Apollo interfaces, offering up to 128 channels of premium input/output, all controlled from a single desktop unit. This makes it the ideal solution for producers at any stage of their career.

Included Plug-Ins in Studio+ Edition

Channel Strips & Preamps

• Avalon VT-737sp Channel Strip
• Century Tube Channel Strip
• CS-1 Channel Strip
• Helios Type 69 Preamp & EQ
• Manley Reference Microphone Preamp
• Precision Channel Strip
• UA 610-A Preamp & EQ
• UA 610-B Preamp & EQ
• V76 Preamplifier

Compressors / Limiters

• dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter 
• Empirical Labs Distressor
• Fairchild 670 Legacy
• Fairchild 660 Compressor
• Fairchild 670 Compressor
• Teletronix LA-2 Classic Leveler
• Teletronix LA-2A Gray Classic Leveler
• Teletronix LA-2A Silver Classic Leveler
• Teletronix LA-2A Legacy Leveling Amplifier
• Teletronix LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler
• UA 1176 Rev A Classic Limiter
• UA 1176AE Classic Limiter
• UA 1176LN Rev E Classic Limiter
• UA 1176LN Legacy
• UA 1176SE Legacy
• UA 175B Classic Limiter
• UA 176 Classic Limiter

Equalisers

• Helios Type 69 Legacy EQ
• Pultec EQP-1A Legacy EQ
• Pultec EQP-1A Passive EQ
• Pultec HLF-3C Passive EQ
• Pultec MEQ-5 Passive EQ
• Pultec Pro Legacy EQ

Special Processing

• Auto-Tune Realtime Access
  
• Auto-Tune Realtime Advanced
• Auto-Tune Realtime X
• Oxide Tape Recorder
• Precision Enhancer Hz
• Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder
• Verve Analog Machines Essentials

Instruments

• Electra 88 Vintage Keyboard Studio
• Moog Minimoog
• Opal Morphing Synth
• PolyMAX Polyphonic Synth
• Ravel Grand Piano
• Waterfall B3 Organ

Delay & Modulation

• Brigade Chorus Pedal
• Galaxy Tape Echo
• Precision Delay Mod
• Precision Delay Mod L
• Studio D Chorus
• Waterfall Rotary Speaker

Reverbs & Rooms

• Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb
• Precision Reflection Engine
• Pure Plate Reverb
• RealVerb Pro Custom Room Modeler

Guitar & Bass

• Ampeg SVT-VR Classic Bass Amplifier
• Marshall Plexi Classic Amplifier
• Raw Distortion