Uad 2

[NuEra]

http://www.uaudio.com/uad-2/

[admin]

Hmmm, all that stuff about the dsp chip was a bit wanky and not anything really of substance. I had the original UAD at 10am on the Monday it came out so I'm pretty familiar with them. At the time they were deff cream of the crop of vintage emus. I've bought and resold a UAD card a few times always going back to Native ones as they got better and better. The one thing that disapointed me about the UAD stuff was there is no input saturation on any of the plugs. Once I used a real Pultec and saw how half the sound was driving the inputs, something their plugs don't do I was put off. Granted no native ones really do this either. In the end the new uad plugs were taking some much power you needed a few cards just to run a decent session which seems counter productive against just buying a faster computer in the first place.

They do make a few cool plugs you don't find elsewhere though.

[NuEra]

I have a couple pci cards myself. Sometimes I feel as if I'm using as much processor power for delay compensation as I would just using plugins natively. haha. Overall I'm pretty happy with my UAD experience, a cheap effective way to get some more processing power and some nice sounding plugins...until I can afford otherwise...Plus they have great sales and vouchers!

[admin]

I do miss having the Roland stuff since it seems UAD are the only company Roland has allowed licensing to.

[blackwatchstudio]

I do miss having the Roland stuff since it seems UAD are the only company Roland has allowed licensing to.

UAD cards are worth their weight in gold just for the Roland Space Echo alone

[admin]

But how close is it? I always liked how my space echo had a fuck up at the slice so you always had to worry if the stuff in the breakdown was going to sound weird depending on the timing of the loop.