What new for dsp has UA got cooking

That is a screen grab taken from GS. It was a discussion about the very thing you've been taking issue with (bundles/upgrades/pricing). So it sounds like UA is working on something related to bundle upgrade options to appease DSP owners like yourself.

Go to the GS page: New UAD Plug-In Bundles Now Available Natively When you buy product

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Did you actually go read the conversation in that thread? Drew seems to be pretty clearly saying that something is coming in response to complaints like the ones you've been making.

Relax fellas.

Firstly I had the same impression as kcat. I thought Drew was talking about something new coming DSP wise. (And I still kind of think that).

But reading Drew's post in context, he does looks like he's talking about a special binder for DSP user. Which seems kind of boring to allude like that, but anyway.

I don't think UA is going to release UAD3 or even change the Sharcs. What I think they will do is release a new Apollo line with more power than what we have. Like 12 cores or something like that.

It does sound like some kind of "deal" is coming for previous DSP owners (of which I am one). So I certainly won't turn down any offer that may come from UA. I've got nearly most all I would want from UA, so the new bundles don't appeal to me all that much, but we'll see.

As for Apollos, yeah, I think some kind of Apollo with more DSP (maybe even an arm processor) may be coming. One of the complaints about the Apollo in the past has been it's limited routing, so a new fpga, or whatever, may help with that. I think they've probably pushed the sonics as far as they can go in this price bracket and, frankly, the x series sound great, as is, so any improvements are likely to come on the processing side or some other nifty feature we're not thinking of. UA has surprised us before. Who saw Unison coming?

I'm livid! I have already punched my satellite 2 times!

One thing that may indicate we won't get much or any improvements in the onboard Apollo DSP is that, with native being offered now, you won't need as much DSP. When everything had to run on the Apollo DSP, that was one thing, but now with native UADx, and more importantly now with DSP/native switching taking place automatically (for Luna users, of which I am one), there is not as much need for DSP. The six Sharcs in my x16 can totally carry the load of whatever tracks I may have armed at any given moment, and the computer will take care of the rest. So I'm not near as enticed by the idea of feeling like I'll want to upgrade to whatever the next Apollo is if the only real improvement is just extra DSP.

I’m sure they’ll throw something in it that I immediately feel like I can’t live without.

I was thinking you’re going to get a coupon for x off your next plugin purchase. You know the coupon you were going to get next month anyway but; a little more off, a nice letter thanking you for your loyalty and a tease of what’s coming, it won’t say coupon it will be called a “loyalty reward “.

Nah I’m not Jaded at all.

...and I'll be sitting here waiting for the announcement and hoping people decide they need to get into a new interface and out of their perfectly good in-use ApolloX (hell, even a blackface Apollo 16).

I just don't care about the UAD processing much...but it's been a rock solid interface for me after doing all of my own troubleshooting and tech support and research (no thanks to UA for putting their hands up and saying "we don't know but it's someone else's fault probably").

If anyone wants to get rid of their Apollo, I'm looking for anything blackfaced or newer with 8 or more channels at a decent price!

I'd love for UA to do a standalone DSP box with no conversion or analog I/o, similar to an HDX card, but with thunderbolt, and then we could use whatever converters we wanted via AES, adat, or whatever.

Isn't that exactly the idea behind the Satellite line?