From serious home recordists to multi-platinum mix engineers, UAD Powered Plug-Ins have won over audio pros for over a decade. The reasoning is straightforward. No other plug-ins accurately reproduce the sound and behaviour of antique analogue equipment, including uncommon compressors and equalisers, reverb processors, and tape recorders. Over 90 plug-ins are available in the UAD collection, which was created in collaboration with the industry’s leading audio companies. These plug-ins are available in packaged bundles with UAD-2 hardware from merchants, or individually via UA’s Online Store.

Expandable processing power, from QUAD to OCTO.

UAD-2 Satellite USB is available in QUAD or OCTO configurations, with four or eight SHARC processors, respectively. It may also be used with UAD-2 PCIe DSP Accelerator cards, UAD-2 Satellite FireWire, and the Apollo Twin USB desktop interface to provide genuinely scalable mixing power.

UAD Plug-In Craftsmanship: The Science behind the Scenes

When creating UAD plug-ins, UA’s engineering team does a rigorous physical modelling of historic audio hardware, “rebuilding” ancient analogue gear in the digital realm, component by component. That is how UAD plug-ins emulate the precise, often peculiar, behaviour of analogue gear, delivering its rich, three-dimensional sound and harmonics “in the box.”