I'm a big Slate fan, have all their plugins and his drum libraries, will be purchasing the VMS and possibly an MTi2, and although my only experience with UAD's plugs was with the first generation, I'd always reach for Slate first. Having said that, the Apollo Twin ticks all my boxes for a home recording interface and the preamp modelling is intriguing. With that said, modelling can only ever be an emulation of the hardware. You get the added bonus of consistency (no two hardware units will ever sound exactly the same), but it will only ever be 99% of the way there (as with the KPA).
Thank you, SamBro'.
As I'm going with MOTU's AVB system the Apollo won't be an option, so "native modelling" it'll have to be. I think I've reached the point where I'm done obsessing about this stuff; I'm thinking, "What the heck - it'll be better than what I had before (crap stuff in the '90s) and that can't be a bad thing".
Thanks again bro'.