I sure do hope UAD doesn’t do something stupid like Waves with the Waves WUP policy to make me so mad that I will never give them another dime! I bought the Wave’s plugins from Sweetwater and I can’t seem to take those guys seriously anymore either.
UAD CONSOLE MAC
Glad you posted - yeah I miss read that and completely unaware of Mac and hoping to stay that way. But if you’re serious, there is a difference between UA and AU. It’s hard to tell if you’re making a joke or not. PT users might feel different as the key commands used in Luna are essentially the same as in PT. I do like the idea of having the UAD console integrated into the program as the back and forth can get a bit tiresome but considering the enormous tradeoff between that and the feature-rich environment within Cubase, I can’t see switching to Luna anytime soon. That’s exactly how I use my Apollo with Cubase - I gave Luna a shot for about a week and was pretty disappointed by the hype especially the nonsense about it not being a DAW - that tagline got old fast at this year’s NAMM show. (FWIW, I’ve also taken to using Superior Drummer 3’s mixer so as to have a separate drum mixer for the 20+ drum mics, mixed down to a small handful of channels into the Cubase mixer) I sometimes have to bop over to Console to tweak the monitor mix for tracking, but for me, anyway, having UAD Console as the monitor mix and tracking preamps (via UAD Unison, e.g., Neve 1073), and Cubase for the playback mixer works great. I pretty much use Cubase like I used to use multi-track tape: I set up UAD Console to “monitor mix” all my inputs - synths, Kemper, mics, etc, and just record-enable (but NOT monitor enable) tracks in Cubase to record them.
UAD CONSOLE PC
Best of all though is that it is now available for Windows, and on behalf of all the PC users out there, thank you UA.Anybody looked deeply at UAD Luna yet and have any kind of head-to-head comparison? I’m a heavy UAD user (I tried to quit, but just can’t but I don’t see moving to Luna, as I work solo, so I don’t have the same kind of “live” recording workflow needs, so I don’t have to switch back and forth between Cubase and UAD Console like I might in tracking a band, which is what Luna is aiming for. However, remember that this is still a Duo, not a Quad or Octo, so you may be running out of DSP pretty soon.Īt this price the Apollo Twin is the cleanest and one of the best-sounding desktop interfaces available, in part thanks to the 24-bit/192 kHz resolution and Unison technology, which imitates the characteristics of tube and solid-state hardware.
UAD CONSOLE WINDOWS 10
Both UA and Softube have released far better emulations in the last couple of years.Īt the time of writing UA state that Windows 7 or 8.1 is required to run the plug-ins, but we tested it on Windows 10 with no issues.Īpollo's Console 2 software means you are still able to get the same near zero-latency as the Thunderbolt edition.
UAD CONSOLE FREE
For instance, the bundled free Softube amp emulation plug-ins are okay, but not the most characterful.
There's plenty of dynamic processing here to keep you sated for a while, but it won't take long before you are wanting more from the huge, tempting catalogue of plug-ins on offer. The Apollo comes with the hugely improved Console 2 software, which allows you to track and monitor with real-time plug-in processing with near-zero latency, access Apollo's features and settings remotely and set up routing with your DAW.Īlso included is the Realtime Analog Classics plug-in bundle and, although it's not filled with the latest plug-ins available on the UAD-2 platform, there are some real classics in the form of the 1176LN and SE models and you will use them, a lot. If you're in the market for just a two-input interface, you know that is all you'll need having the option of the optical input for eight extra channels is just pure bonus. Not being able to chain several units together isn't a game changer here that's not what the Twin is all about. It seems USB 3 protocol does not allow for this, but is that really much of a problem? The original version does have one up on this edition and that is the ability to chain up to four Apollo units together. The USB cable is included in the box! How many of you out there have purchased a Thunderbolt product only to find that the Thunderbolt cable isn't included? So far and there is very little to separate the USB and its Thunderbolted cousin, bar one seemingly insignificant and yet extremely welcome thing. Inside the unit and the only discernible difference is that only the Duo (two SHARC processing chips) is on offer, with no Solo version available.