Hi Jiffyslot, I wanted to know if you had latency with Apollo and Hackintosh ...
I'm about to buy an apollo twin x4 with a titan ridge pcie to connect it to my MB aorus pro wifi z390... Any suggestion?
Have you already bought into the UAD ecosystem? What's your DAW setup?
The Twin x4 isn't very expensive for what it is, so it should work fine, and the included plugins are killer.
But it's a complex question that requires some considerations:
When tracking with the Apollo 8 Quad (TB2) with Pro Tools or Logic (I almost never use Logic) I only run plugins from the
UAD Console app. I don't run plugins in Pro Tools or Logic during tracking. All "comfort effects" are on Aux or Virtual busses on the UAD.
The only problems that seem to recur with the latest few months of Mojave is an occasional, gradual deterioration of the clock or the sample rate that necessitates a restart. IDK if this is a Pro Tools problem or a UAD driver problem or something else.
As much as I love the sound of UAD gear, if I were purchasing again, I'd avoid all things Thunderbolt. If you can find a USB 3 or USB C interface that gives you a real-world i/o latency of less than 3ms at 48 KHz using a buffer of 128 samples, I'd go for it.
Most manufacturers "cheat the spec" by using high sample rates for measuring round-trip latency.
It'd be interesting to have an extra machine to have a shootout between the new SSL, Steinberg, and UAD interfaces.
I wish I'd had more time to demo the UAD plugins, because I would have pared-down the ones I bought from a dozen to about 3 that don't already come with the UAD unit. LMK what you think.
