User Manual

UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 13 - Chapter 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Welcome!
Congratulations, and welcome to the UA Family! You now own the best
sounding, most powerful sonic upgrade available for your DAW. The UAD-2
and version 5.0 software represents the culmination of a multi-year develop-
ment effort delivering the latest in state-of-the-art audio processing technology
and is the next evolution of the revolutionary, award-winning UAD-1 Powered
Plug-Ins & DSP Card Platform
For many years our customers have been asking for a UAD with more power
and the UAD-2 is all about putting more power in your hands – more power
to track, mix and master. The UAD-2 Quad offers, on average, an incredible
10 times the power of the UAD-1, while the UAD-2 Duo offers 5 times, and
UAD-2 Solo offers 2.5 times the power. The UAD-2 Quad supports an awe-
inspiring 128-channel Neve 88RS mixer at 44.1k. That’s a full console for the
largest of professional mixes on ONE incredibly priced UAD-2 card!
The UAD-2 of course, seamlessly works alongside up to 4 UAD-1’s or UAD-
1e’s but also allows any 4 UAD-2 cards to be mixed and matched to conve-
niently scale the DSP power you want at the price you can afford. Start with
a Nevana 32 and instantly run a 32 channel Neve 88RS console. Then, sim-
ply add more cards for additional outboard FX or more mix channels as your
needs grow. Pro power-users can now use up to four UAD-2 Quads for the
most demanding applications with equivalent potency to 40 UAD-1 cards!
Now inside-the-box mixing is as powerful as outside.
Once you’re settled in with your new UAD-2 select from our ever growing
Powered Plug-Ins Collection to custom build your own virtual mixing console,
mastering console, mix sidecar, or inboard dream-FX-rack from UA’s exclu-
sive collection of revered studio gear including classics from Neve®, Ro-
land/BOSS®, Helios®, Fairchild, Pultec, SPL®, Moog® and of course UA’s
own 1176LN, LA-2A, and LA-3A compressors, as well as our critically ac-
claimed line of Precision Mix Series and Mastering Series plug-ins. Digital
recreations of other seminal analog studio gems from legendary analog man-
ufacturers are on the way including the Empirical Labs® Fatso, the EQ from
the famed Harrison® 4032c “Thriller” console, the Little Labs® IBP, and select
Valley People® EQ’s, Compressors, and Gates.