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Universal Audio Apollo x16D TB3 Audio Interface with Dante From UA

18-in/20-out, 24-bit/192kHz, Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface with 16-in/16-out Dante I/O, Immersive Audio Support, LUNA Compatibility, and 28 Plug-ins - Mac/PC AAX 64, VST, AU, RTAS

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Take UAD plug-ins Elite-Class Apollo X Sound from Studio to Stage.

Perfect for live sound venues or networked recording studios, Apollo x16D gives you elite-class Apollo X sound and realtime UAD plug-in processing over Thunderbolt and Dante. With Apollo x16D, you can mix and record live performances with over 200 UAD plug-ins from Neve, SSL, and Auto-Tune, plus classic LA-2A and 1176 compressors, and more.

Understanding Apollo x16D

It’s our most powerful Apollo for mixing live sound with UAD plug-ins or building out a networked recording studio. Learn what it is, what it does, and why you need it from UA experts and fanatics.

Work Fast & Never Lose Your Settings

With its powerful digital mixing engine giving you control over inputs, outputs, and plug-in routing — Apollo x16D makes it easy to build your mix and control entire effects chains in realtime. Then quickly recall your plug-in settings over MIDI, all without interrupting the performance.

Hundreds of Effects, One Rack Space

Apollo x16D comes in two editions, both delivering a generous suite of UAD plug-ins right out of the box. Build your mix with classic Teletronix LA-2A and 1176 compressors, Pultec EQs, and Neve channel strips along with modern favorites from Auto-Tune, Avalon, and more.

Expand Your Studio Over Dante

Link up to four x16Ds to build a 64-channel Dante system with network redundancy. Or expand your current Thunderbolt Apollo studio over Dante — the most low-latency and scalable audio network available. This means that if you’ve been considering making the switch to a networked recording studio, or you simply want to grow to a multi-room setup, you don’t have to start from scratch.

Mix Down to Surround

After the show, bring Apollo x16D back to the studio, where it becomes your all‑in‑one monitoring hub for mixing formats up to 9.1.6. This allows you to easily create 16‑channel immersive audio mixes of live sets or studio recordings for Dolby Atmos, Auro‑3D, Sony 360 Reality Audio, and others.

Features:

Mix studio and live performances using award-winning UAD plug-ins in realtime over Dante
Link up to four x16Ds for a 64-channel Dante system with network redundancy
Use Plug-In Scenes to recall settings instantly, even in the middle of a performance
Bring your best UAD plug-ins like Auto-Tune, Neve, and Lexicon from studio to stage
Turn any space with ethernet into a multi-room Apollo recording studio
Choose between Essentials+ and Ultimate+ editions, adding up to 100+ UAD plug-ins worth thousands of dollars
18 x 20 audio interface featuring Dante I/O (supports AES67 mode @ 48 kHz)
24-bit/192 kHz elite-class Apollo X D/A conversion
Stereo AES I/O for connection to professional digital outboard hardware
Includes up to 100+ UAD plug-ins with Ultimate+ or Essentials+ editions
Recall plug-in settings over MIDI, even in the middle of a performance
Onboard HEXA Core Processing for mixing with UAD plug-ins at near-zero latency
Compatible with Thunderbolt Apollo interfaces to expand systems over Dante
Create 16-channel immersive audio mixes for Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D, Sony 360 Reality Audio, and others
ALT monitoring support in all monitor modes (2 x ALT mon for stereo, 1 x ALT mon for all)
Free industry-leading technical support from knowledgeable audio engineers

About Manufacturer

Universal Audio Inc. was re-founded in 1999 by Bill's sons, James Putnam and Bill Putnam Jr., with two main goals: to faithfully reproduce classic analog recording equipment in the tradition of their father, and to design new digital recording tools with the sound and spirit of vintage analog technology. However, as Bill Jr. recounts, the genesis of "UA, part 2" is actually a bit more serendipitous.

Having grown up in the music industry, Bill Jr. and James ("Jim") Putnam naturally assumed that the music business is where they'd eventually end up. Jim, a touring musician and recording engineer, and their older brother Scott, a studio designer in Southern California, were the first to follow in Bill Sr.'s path. However, Bill Jr. took a more circuitous direction, working for a number of engineering companies before undertaking a doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. It was at Stanford that Bill Jr. became closely involved in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), specializing in signal processing. It was also at Stanford that Bill Jr. began to assemble a team of the best and brightest minds in the field — who continue to steer many of Universal Audio's engineering efforts to this day.

However, the precise event that led Bill and Jim to start (or "reinvent") Universal Audio in 1999 was unexpected. As Bill Jr. tells it, when Bill Sr. passed away in 1989, he and Jim were faced with the Herculean task of cleaning out their dad's workshop and storage areas. While going through Bill Sr.'s old test equipment, boxes of parts, bits and pieces of consoles, and half-cannibalized 1176 compressors, Jim came across their father’s old design notebook. The two spent the evening poring over his notes, realizing that this was the map to every technical problem their father had ever solved. It was at that moment that they decided to bring back Universal Audio and its classic products.

Fast forward a decade. Now with nearly 80 employees and legions of new customers worldwide, UA is headquartered near the Silicon Valley, in Scotts Valley, California — where our classic analog gear is still hand-built, one unit at a time. The lengths we go to deliver the exact sound and performance of classic analog audio gear is unparalleled; in fact, the goal is for UA's modern units to perform identically to well-maintained units built decades ago.

Of course, analog is only half the story. At Universal Audio, we employ the world's brightest DSP engineers and digital modeling authorities to develop our award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform, featuring the most authentic analog emulation plug-ins in the industry. Our DSP gurus work with the original hardware manufacturers — using their exact schematics, golden units, and experienced ears — to give UAD plug-ins warmth and harmonics in all the right places, just like analog.