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 Universal Audio History 238
Universal Audio History
Pioneering audio recording for more than 50 years.
Founded in 1958 by Bill Putnam Sr., Universal Audio has been synonymous with
innovative recording products since its inception. A favorite engineer of Frank Sinatra,
Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and more, the late Bill Putnam Sr. was a passionate
innovator who is widely regarded as the father of modern recording — with many of his
legendary studio and equipment designs still in use today.
Specifically, Putnam was the inventor of the modern recording console, the multi-band
audio equalizer, and the vocal booth, and he was the first engineer to use artificial
reverberation in commercial recording. Alongside his friend Les Paul, Putnam was also
involved in the early development of stereophonic recording.
Putnam, a natural entrepreneur, started three audio product companies during his
long career: Universal Audio, Studio Electronics, and UREI. All three companies built
equipment that remains widely used decades after their introduction, including the
ubiquitous LA-2A and 1176 compressors, and the 610 tube recording console. The 610
console in particular stands as one of the most beloved designs in audio history, used to
record everyone from Sinatra to the Beach Boys to Van Halen’s eponymous debut.