@@KassmeierAudio The Legend will always live on in my channel!

@@leolopes4692 something I never ever once do - but yeah - pretty sure it has midi out.

@@wildbilldurkin1493 I’m still to this day blown away with this neve plugin. As far as plugins go - this is one of the best of all time.

@@wildbilldurkin1493 also - the who rocks!!

@@13randoK yessir. Completes the product. It’s still beta so it’s a bit buggy. But yeah.

@@TheSteveKinney Honestly I just started messing with daws trying to get back into playing, Luna is a little crazy at first but damn once you figure it out things sound amazing.

@@13randoK 💯

@@ACOMPA no media bay. Tracks listing in the left hand window. Importing is as easy as clicking and dragging.

@@ChristianYri it’s a setting in within Luna itself, I believe it’s in one of the file menus at the very top. Just cycle through them all and you will find it.

@@TheSteveKinney thank you!

@@MrGreekBlade well… you must have missed the point of SSL 360 software and all of SSL’s new plugins. That’s what they have done. VST3 is sort of the answer here. Plus, watch my latest video on the UF platform. On Mac, im able to add keyboard shortcuts for anything I want - so long as it’s a menu item. Then via ssl 360, I can do any sort of macro or shortcut I want via the keyboard shortcut. Genuinely, I’m not far off from feeling like I’m 100% on a console.

@@MELOPSMUSIC the gain on the hi-z preamp should be all the way down for starters. Your pedals might be hitting hotter into the Apollo, back your final gain stage off. Finally, almost every UAD plugins headroom is lower by default to get to “the sweet spot” earlier. Turn the plugins input gain way down and start there.

@@TheSteveKinney Thx Steve ! I'm gonna try to lower my input gain as i can !

Eeeeehhhhhhhhh. I mean, for jazz, I’d recommend amplitube 5 max. Their clean tones are wayyyy better than the UAD amp sim clean tones. Just being honest. Now the Apollo interface is an amazing interface still. But just saying.

@@TheSteveKinney my biggest concern is recording with latency. I got a scalert 2i2 4th gen. I returned it the next day because I can’t take the smallest latency when playing. If I use the apollo solo with amplitube 5 will I get any latency? Or would you think is better to record and add the amplitude plugin after , just to solve the latency? I really like the idea of the apollo solo to avoid the latency. Thank you so much for your channel man!

@@lekinguitarrista8445 a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand where latency comes from. It’s entirely from your cpu at this point. The interfaces were only the problem about 10-12 years ago. The Apollo also hasn’t had a significant redesign in about that amount of time. The reason it has no latency is because - when you use their plugins, you are sending your signal into the interface - the onboard processors compute your signal and split it. One signal goes into your daw The second signal is immediately sent straight back out of the Apollo - now if you throw on a UAD-2 plugin, this is also where it’s processed, by the interface and then sent out. So - the latency of a round trip from your mic or guitar into the daw and then processed by your CPU and then spit back out to your interface hasn’t change. That’s physics. You are bottled necked by your computer. Unless you have a way around it. The only ways around it is some sort of DSP or FPGA system or go entirely analogue. So. The Apollo. Antelope. Or pro tools HDX. Both the limitation of the Apollo and Antelope is that they will only run THEIR plugins in real time. There are a few others - but. Yeah. That’s the gist of it.

I will never. Ever. Go back to logic. I hate it in almost every regard. Only feature I miss is the external hardware / I/O plugin support, I’m sure that’s coming to Luna, but when is the bigger question. Logic is just soooo hard to work in, IMHO. Id buy a full license of pro tools HDX and an accel card ($6000 investment 😂 ) before I consider going back to logic.

@@TheSteveKinney 😂 I feel u. I’m very disappointed in Logic Pro 11. I thought it would be a major update fixing so many things but it didn’t. After using Luna logic feels archaic and kind of clunky. Luna feels so fresh and full of life with the constant updates it gets.

@@iamvelour my ONLY downside is that it’s SUPER clear at this point that UA is almost exclusively focused on trying to pigeon hole everyone into their software ecosystem - which is why the hardware insert thing is so painful to me. The ironic part is that it’s almost making their own hardware (1176, La2a) pointless to buy… you can tie them into their OWN recording system lol 🤦🏻‍♂️ … are they telling us we don’t need to buy their hardware? I get it, things take time… but aye.

@@TheSteveKinney I thought about that too. Seems like being that they do hardware emulation they don’t see the need to use hardware inserts in Luna. I’m sure it’s gotta be coming though especially if they ever want Luna to really compete with protools. It’s been like 4 years though and I know things take time but I feel like that should have been a day one feature. I would also like logic comping and protools playlisting.

@@iamvelour hmmmmm. Pro tools playlisting on a track is basically versions in Luna. Now I personally don’t like logics comping. It locks me into looking rather than listening. But that’s just me. And yeah - hardware inserts HAS to be there… should have been day 1. But I’m starting to think there is some sort of limitation with the Apollos as they are to integrate hardware inserts… or again, they are purposefully not including it, so people buy their plugins. Which IMO is a bullshit business practice lol The plugins are good enough that they don’t need any sort of forced buying mechanic… which leads me to believe that their leadership has hired the wrong people who don’t know their own customers. It’s been a strange few years for UA. that’s for sure.

Not yet. I’m sure it’s coming very soon. I find clicking and typing for your plugin is a thousand times faster though.

Metric a/b should be able to load into Luna. It’s just a plugin, yeah? Anyways, all you’d have to do - is create a new bus or track and route it to monitor L&R. That would still go out your main speaker outs - but would be outside of your mix bus.

Ha ha I thought it was a nice touch.

It's a massive advantage to having these reverb plugins be native. They take a bunch of DSP on the Apollo - and who needs time based effects to be in realtime? you always pre delay them anyways ... lol. but .. ya.. this is one of the best plugins UA has made IMHO.

there are truly two ways of doing that - so firstly - the duplicated session file saves in the original files same enclosing folder. Which you should always be defining upon session creation. Secondly, inside of the luna's project folder - they have a thing called "versions" which allow you to create completely separate iteration of the project without having to double the project files themselves on your hard drive. either way works. but just food for thought.

@@TheSteveKinney yes I've been using versions but sometimes I just want a complete back up file when things get messy and something gets screwed up as I'm learning. I did notice that all media files are contained within a session file so that's awesome , I can duplicate that and send it to a different computer too

@@PTFWWDB yup! Certainly could be beneficial to duplicate the whole project file for sure. Just wanted to through out that other option though - as it's a great way to do alternative mixes without messing with the original version but not blowing up your hard drive space from duplicating all files etc.

Reload the session from the versions menu.

Their hardware will give you the "ARM" function, which is the real-time monitoring function. You can still create cue mixes, and utilize luna like a daw with another interface - However, you'd still be open to latency, just like any other daw at that point. UA's marketing team needs to either have a come to Jesus meeting or be fired at this point lol there are so many asterisks and fine print that is misunderstood due to the marketing team. lol Now you mention gig performer... 1. define that.. 2. what about it? that's so vague that I'm not sure where you might be going with the question. Cheers Mate!

Legacy is only available on UAD-2 DSP accelerated.

Cheers mate !!

Guitar or amp modeler > hi-z jack > out of Apollo line out > into mic pre 2 Ideally going into mic pre 2 with a di box to convert the signal to line or mic level. But not totally necessary. - just gotta watch the signal levels. Start low and work your way up. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya! lol

Cheers mate!

They are kidding themselves. Live drums just isn’t what anyone has heard on the radio since the 70’s. It’s all been augmented with samples for a loooong time.

Thanks for the kind words and for sharing! They both have their perks! Ableton is the live event standard. There’s a reason it’s called ableton live. Luna is shaping up to be a more efficient pro tools.

Heck yeah! Thanks mate!

🥲 thank you 🙏🏻

The feature set of the Apollo really is amazing for the money. Especially for home studios. Commercial studios could never rock a full Apollo system. But larger home studios and smaller home studios are perfect for them.

Totally! They gotta feel special, but also comfortable to mess up and explore and try to sing outside their comfort zone.

@@TheSteveKinney exactly. Sometimes the errors turn out to be little unplanned miracles.

Cheers mate

🤐 no one tell him.

lol ok

A lot of people keep their superior drummer libraries on drives like this. I had some buffer underruns when I kept ezdrummer on one of my drives. But truly, I think it just depends on how the VSTi loads and recalls samples. You’ll likely get different results from different instrument plugins. What I CAN say is that all project files should absolutely be on a different drive.

I don’t have a profile for cubase. I don’t have a license for cubase. Haven’t used it in a minute.

TikTok happened hahah All my full videos are still up, but currently very busy. Gotta make some more!

Cheers mate!

They both sound great. Generally, speaking - oxide is a set and forget, that’s easy, and subtle, and sells the tape sound. Also generally, that’s my approach with all of the tape stuff. You shouldn’t “hear it”. The studer is wayyy more detailed overall, you can calibrated it, you can fuss with it, and also, sounds a lot more pleasant when you do wanna dial it up over the top.

@@TheSteveKinney cool, thanks! I ended up buying both. Perhaps I can use them on different tracks in the same song. Its about the experiment right?!?! Great video man

@@WinItReigns totally. I like the studer on drum busses, acoustic guitars. I like the oxide on electric guitars, basses

Thanks mate!! We are over the moon, a great new journey for sure!

Heck yeah cheers brother… You should check out the Luna series where I make a song from start to finish… That song actually got released, music video was filmed for it… It ended up hitting number one on CMT Australia

Thanks mate! Happy I can help in some small way.

Thanks mate!