New UAD2 software update - Warning for old UAD1 users.

UNLESS YOU ARE A UAD1 USER OR A MIXED UAD2 AND UAD1 USER...THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU ARE READY TO HAVE YOUR UAD1 HARDWARE DISABLED.

THERE IS A GENEROUS TRADE IN PROGRAM BUT ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THIS UPGRADE YOUR UAD1 WILL NO LONGER FUNCTION.

Just a word to the wise.

Good add. I just sold my two UAD1 cards last week. If I have know the promo was coming I would have traded them in.

Yea...I guess here's another coupla c notes I gotta come up with. I still have one UAD1 in my DAW box.  Can a trade in be far away??

Well, not exactly. $150 and $135 for PCIe and PCI versions. I'm good moving away from plugins and going to hardware right now. I will keep the UAD2 solo just to stay in the game.

Ghengis - Get the Studer A800. Thank me later.

I've got one UAD-1 left and am trading it for a Solo.

 
 
 
I now have a compelling reason to finally ditch my last remaining UAD-1e card once and for all! I had a (4) UAD-1 card system back in the day (2008), but quickly sold (3) of the cards on ebay soon after the UAD-2 was released when I got my QUAD. I sold the three cards separately and actually made $750 total on ebay. Used those funds to offset the cost of the new QUAD card. Made out like a bandit! I kept my last UAD-1 card installed for those times when I needed extra DSP, but I rarely used it. In fact, it has been years since I have even needed to use it for anything.
 
These cards are typically going for $80-$100 on ebay, so UA giving me $200 is a no-brainer. I'll trade up my last UAD-1e for a UAD-2 SOLO (about $140 after trade-in) and turn around and sell it on ebay and more than double my money! I'll use those proceeds to pay towards the forthcoming Thunderbolt card for my brand new Apollo!
 
As for the new 1176 Limiter Collection, I have been wanting UA to update some 
of their older plug-ins for years. They always seemed disinterested in the past. So this has taken me totally by surprise. I am hoping that UA updates several other plug-ins as well (LA-2A, Pultec, Fairchild, LA-3A). I suppose they may wait until they see how successful these are, before they take the time and investment to go back and do other plug-ins.
 
These new plug-ins do sound awesome and very hardware like (with modeled transformers, FET and bipolar transistor amplifiers, input/output distortion, etc.). I really like the choice of the three modeled 1176's as well. I am really digging UA 's own "AE" version with it's hot rod mods (2:1 ratio & "SLO" attack modes) I'll be getting these for sure. I can't wait to hear how these babies sound tracking live through my Apollo QUAD once it arrives (currently on backorder)!

Cheers,

Billy Buck

So I can just take my UAD1e to Guitar Center and trade??

Thankee kindly Mesh, ol pal.  Say...are you still interested in gettin a Korg PadKontrol?  I'm fixin to put mine on Ebay.

I just checked the instance chart at UAD support to see how many instances of the new 1176 UAD2 plugins a card will run.  WOW.  These new plugins are hogs.

They are CPU hogs but they sound stellar. I would suggest printing the track once you get it dialed in, archive the original pre compression track and move along.

cecelius2

Middleman

They are CPU hogs but they sound stellar. I would suggest printing the track once you get it dialed in, archive the original pre compression track and move along.

I am glad to hear the new 1176 plugins sound steller.  What supprised me was that the newly released 1176 Rev A will run only 8 instances of mono and 6 of stereo on a Solo card; whereas the previous 1176 version (that comes stock with the UAD2 cards) will run 22 mono instances and 20 stereo on a Solo.  This is a major drain on that DSP and the number of UAD plugins one can run.  This means that not much else can run simultaneously, but the trick will be to freeze or print a track once it is dialed in, and then free up the UAD DSP to do other tasks.

Freeing up resources by freezing has never been a turn off to me since I still remember when I started recording only having a limited number of compressors, period.   And freezing gives you plenty of room to make a change if you need to come back to it.

yorolpal


Yup...it is my ol humble opinion that all succeeding UAD2 plugs will be "CPU" or card hoggers which, while possibly offering much more accurate modeling, will also demand that everyone buy more and bigger cards to run them.  Not saying I'm giving up on UAD...but ol FabFilter has the right idea and, at least in my estimation, "has their mind right".

Yup, I couldn't agree more with that sentiment, it's those types of vendors that will rise to the top by getting past the short term goals to make a quick return and actually looking at what's required and supplying it with that right mind.

Also if it's good now it's still gonna be good in 5 years time and the use I get out of what I currently have ain't gonna diminish.

What comes next therefore has to be stellar and it can only get better from here on out because I'm already good to go.