I'd still give the edge to Antelope when directly comparing the pres and conversion, with no processing. In my use of the Apollo the sound quality is great. You get the advantage of the Unison stuff (still rather have a ton of outboard, but that's often not an option), and a lot of the guitar stuff supports that too. On the other hand, UA has been around forever, has a known track record of great support, and an arsenal of plugs with more coming all the time. They're just a few steps short of it, and I worry the commitment isn't there to get it there.
#ORION SOUND STUDIO PRO#
It's a product, much like Pro Tools 12, that I want to love desperately, cause nothing else out there gives you that many great sounding pres and ADDA for that price, and they do sound great. We still don't know if anything else is coming, or if development has been superseded by the Orion Studio, even though they have the same FPGA. It took a year and a half for the reverb to come out for the Zen.
#ORION SOUND STUDIO DRIVERS#
The drivers haven't been updated in a rather long time, they're low latency performance is nothing to right home about (in fact, despite the claims of using a proprietary USB controller, they seem to have the same round trip latencies as a couple of other USB interfaces), and it doesn't seem that Antelope is working towards improving the devices after release. The most frustrating part of this was the amount of time spent with Antelope with no one having any idea what to do to fix it, and then seeing multiple multiple posts talking about this issue. This means that while I now have Pro Tools working relatively normally, I can't listen to any audio source except for Pro Tools. This is not purely an Antelope issue (happens with Focusrite devices too, comes from the way PT implements ASIO), and doesn't occur in Studio One, yet other devices don't have the problem in Pro Tools, so it's a little bit of both. This current unit works fine, except when using it with Pro Tools in Windows, if there are any audio devices (doesn't matter if it's the Zen, anything selected at all) it's a crapfest getting Pro Tools to open and playback correctly, and God help you if you want to switch sample rates. First Zen Studio failed during an update, necessitating Antelope completely replacing it. Decided I was better served having built in pres for live recordings, so I sold that Orion and got a Zen Studio to replace it. They sent me out a loaner, got it fixed, they shipped mine back. My first issue was an Orion's USB port died completely right before it was to be used for its first session. I've had some reliability concerns as well as support concerns regarding Antelope stuff. I would go for the Apollo for a couple of reasons. So I've now owned an Orion 32 and two Zen Studios, and I use UAD process cards and have set up many clients with Apollos. $300 more for that is worth it in my book. But orion studio has the 16 analog outs, 4 more preamps. Between ensemble and apollo I would have gone ensemble.
#ORION SOUND STUDIO SOFTWARE#
But there will be software and firmware updates. Just like having the ability to rename presets etc.
The control software panel could probably be improved in slight ways regarding workflow not sound.
If i were to step up I would seperate convertors, preamps, monitoring etc. In terms of all-in-one box I would say the orion studio is were it's at. I don't have tons of experience with studio style preamps as Ive been mostly a live sound engineer but to me the pres sound extremely clean with lots of gain. Im using Studio One but will also be using Pro Tools. Thank you!Well, the orion studio has more preamps than the others for starters. What ultimately swayed you away from the other two? Do you use logic? What are some of the quirks you've encountered? If you use the stock preamps do they sound warm or just clean? What do you consider a step up from the Orion Studio?
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