User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- A Letter from Bill Putnam Jr.
- Introducing Apollo Solo USB
- Getting Started
- Hardware Controls & Connectors
- Apollo Solo USB System Overview
- Working With Apollo Solo USB
- Essential Apollo Solo USB Concepts
- Setting the DAW to use Apollo Solo USB I/O
- Accessing Apollo Solo USB’s I/O in the DAW
- Input Monitoring with the DAW
- Using Console with the DAW
- UAD Plug-Ins: Console versus DAW
- Virtual I/O
- Using Apollo Solo USB for System Sound I/O
- Using Apollo Solo USB Without Audio Software
- Console Overview
- What is Console?
- Console Functions
- Global Functions
- When To Use Console
- Interactions Between Console and Apollo Solo USB
- Accessing Console
- Console Layout
- Global Window Elements
- Meter Bridge Overview
- Info Bar Overview
- Current Bank Overview
- View Column Overview
- Monitor Column Overview
- Channel Strips Overview
- Console Plug-In Inserts Overview
- Insert Effects Overview
- Popover Windows
- HP Cue Overview
- Sends Overview
- Console Sessions Overview
- Console Settings Overview
- Multiple Undo/Redo
- Keyboard Focus & Control
- Adjusting Console Controls
- Controls Shortcuts
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Console Reference
- Console Plug-In Inserts
- Insert Types
- Inserts Signal Flow
- Inserting UAD Plug-Ins
- Removing UAD Plug-Ins
- Editing UAD Plug-Ins
- Insert Assign Popover
- Inserts Display
- Insert State Indicators
- Insert Hover Options
- Insert Options Menu
- Channel Insert Effects
- Plug-In Editor Window
- Channel Strips
- Presets Manager
- Presets Manager Popover
- Save Preset Popover
- Console Settings
- Unison
- Console Recall Plug-In
- UAD Meter & Control Panel
- Using UAD Plug-Ins
- Tempo Sync
- UA Account & Store
- Latency & Apollo Solo USB
- Device Drivers
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Hardware Block Diagram
- Universal Audio History
- Notices
- Technical Support
Apollo Solo USB Manual Unison 170
Controlling Unison Plug-Ins with Apollo Solo USB
When a Unison plug-in is inserted in Console’s Unison insert, Apollo Solo USB’s top
panel preamp controls and the Unison plug-in’s equivalent preamp controls are mirrored.
Adjusting Apollo Solo USB’s top panel preamp controls adjusts the Unison plug-in’s
preamp controls, and vice versa.
Plug-In Parameters
Unison plug-ins may contain parameters that are unavailable for hardware control via
Apollo Solo USB. For example, the UA 610-B has EQ settings, but there are no EQ
controls on Apollo Solo USB’s hardware. To adjust these extra parameters, the Unison
plug-in interface must be used.
Apollo Solo USB Top Panel Indication
Unison Active
When a Unison plug-in is inserted in a Console Unison insert and Apollo Solo USB’s top
panel channel select function is set to the same channel, the color of Apollo Solo USB’s
top panel level indicator (the LED ring around the knob) is orange instead of green.
Note: Apollo Solo USB’s top panel must be in PREAMP mode and the channel
selection indicator must match the Unison-enabled channel to see the top panel
Unison indication.
The orange-colored ring indicates that the currently selected preamp channel is using a
Unison plug-in within Console, and that Apollo Solo USB’s top panel knob is controlling
the first gain stage of the preamp plug-in (with pedal plug-ins, the knob is controlling the
primary effect parameter, e.g., distortion).
Apollo Solo USB’s top panel preamp knob during normal operation (left) and when a
Unison plug-in is in the Unison insert of Apollo Solo USB’s selected channel (right)
Additional Gain Stages
More than one gain parameter within the Unison plug-in can be adjusted using Apollo
Solo USB’s top panel knob by activating Gain Stage Mode. When Gain Stage Mode is
active, the color of Apollo Solo USB’s top panel level indicator, and the target parameter
within the Unison plug-in’s interface, changes depending on which parameter is currently
being controlled by the knob, and the parameter being controlled can be navigated
remotely by pushing the knob’s switch. See Gain Stage Mode for details.