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
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Apollo Solo USB Manual Working With Apollo Solo USB 51
How To Disable Hardware Input Monitoring
To prevent doubled signals at Apollo Solo USB’s outputs when software input monitoring
via the DAW, Apollo Solo USB’s hardware input monitoring feature via Console must be
disabled. Note that Console input monitoring is enabled by default.
1. Open Console.
2. Mute input channels within Console by clicking the MUTE buttons so they are red.
Tip: In Console, option-click any input MUTE switch to quickly toggle the mute
state of all input channels.
Console: Mute inputs when software monitoring via DAW
Input Monitoring Tips
• Use Console for front-end hardware input monitoring to eliminate I/O buffering
latency caused by DAW software monitoring — regardless of the DAW’s buffer size
setting.
• Prevent signal doubling at Apollo Solo USB’s outputs by allowing only Console’s
hardware input monitoring or the DAW’s software input monitoring feature — not
both at the same time. Signal doubling can make input signals sound “thin” due
to phase cancellations and/or comb filtering that occurs when two identical signals
are mixed together and they are not phase-aligned.
• Route the DAW’s main outputs into Console’s virtual inputs via Virtual I/O when
overdubbing so you can balance the levels of the DAW’s pre-recorded tracks with
Apollo Solo USB’s live inputs — all within the Console mixer.
• If monitoring/recording a virtual software instrument in the DAW and you want
to process the instrument with UAD plug-ins, route the output of the software
instrument channel into Console’s virtual input(s) and apply the UAD plug-ins
in Console instead of the DAW. This technique reduces latencies caused by I/O
buffering.
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