The Universal Audio Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition audio interface is an ideal system for carrying out audio recording, editing, and production with high sound quality, offering the authentic UA conversion, a complete set with classic mixing tools and the LUNA recording system.

The Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition is a special edition that includes 5 award-winning UAD plug-in titles, with collections from Teletronix, Pultec, and UA.

“Universal Audio Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition: Excellence in Audio Recording and Production”

The Universal Audio Apollo interfaces have been built on the experience accumulated during the more than 60 years UA has been working in the audio and music industry, a legacy of decades of innovation, superlative quality, and technical passion that takes advantage of the high quality and extensive background of Universal Audio's classic analog products to integrate them within the countless possibilities offered by the digital universe and new technologies.

Real-time UAD plug-in processing to record with near-zero latency

Derived from Universal Audio's award-winning Apollo interfaces, the Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition opens up a range of classic analog colors through its real-time UAD processing. With an integrated UAD-2 Duo Core processor, the Apollo Twin MkII allows you to monitor and record through the entire UAD Powered plug-in library, with latency close to zero, regardless of the audio software's buffer setting.

Going one step further, Universal Audio offers you the Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition with 5 premium plug-ins worth over €1,300.00, including the complete compressor package from Teletronix and UA's 1176, all Pultec equalizers, UA 610 Unison microphone preamps, and Pure Plate Reverb. These Heritage Edition premium titles are added to the included “Realtime Analog Classics” package of the Apollo Twin MkII, giving you the most accurate library of classic analog emulations included with any professional audio interface.

The complete UAD plug-in library features more than 100 iconic names offering all types of processors, from classic Moog filters to Ampex tape and Lexicon reverbs, to name just a few. These are exactly the same plug-ins used on the hit records of Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Foo Fighters, and many more.

Unison Technology to achieve impressive microphone and guitar preamp emulations

The Apollo Twin MkII's Unison technology offers you the tone, feel, and “character” of the most coveted microphone preamps and tube and transistor guitar amplifiers in the world. It includes the UA 610-B Tube Preamp, Marshall Plexi Classic Amplifier, and Ampeg SVT-VR Classic Bass Amp plug-ins – and can be expanded with exclusive titles from Neve, Avalon, SSL, Fender, and many more.

The Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition features two Unison-enabled microphone preamps, allowing you to track through exact microphone preamp emulations from Neve, API, Manley, SSL, Avalon, Helios, and Universal Audio. Unison, an exclusive Universal Audio technology, makes software / hardware integration possible to capture the tone of these coveted solid-state and tube microphone preamps, including their input impedance, the gain stage “sweet spots,” and circuit behaviors at the component level.

Unison technology is also found in the Apollo Twin MkII's front panel Hi-Z instrument input, providing the absolute impedance and gain matching of several guitar and bass amplifier models from Fender, Marshall, Ampeg, among others.

Created for recording, with practical monitoring features for a dynamic workflow

The Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition offers enhanced monitoring functionality, adding ALT, Mute, DIM, and Mono speaker switching. It also includes monitor remote controls and a built-in talkback microphone for easy communication with the artist or to carry out cue recordings.

LUNA recording system, with accelerated real-time monitoring

The Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition works with the leading DAWs on the market, including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, and more. However, with LUNA, a powerful free recording application for Mac from Universal Audio, the interface transforms into a fully integrated recording system.

The LUNA software, enhanced by Accelerated Realtime Monitoring, allows you to record and mix in an intuitive single-window workflow, with unlimited tracks, full AU support, and access to a suite of exclusive LUNA instruments and extensions.

LUNA transforms the Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition into an incredibly inspiring music creation platform that includes everything from Studer multitrack tape and Neve Summing to Moog instruments and much more.

Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition: Created for musicians, electronic producers, and composers

The Apollo Twin MkII Heritage Edition's bus-powered Thunderbolt 2 design, along with the robust all-metal construction, the best headphone amplifier in its class , and superior audio conversion, make up a perfect feature package for musicians, composers, and electronic music producers who need UA quality in a compact package.

The Apollo Twin MkII can be combined with Universal Audio's Apollo Thunderbolt audio interface line (up to 4 units) and UAD-2 DSP accelerators to increase the number of I/O channels and UAD DSP processing as your system's needs grow.