AMSdigital delay on UA

Changed the RE-201 back to a green color.

Will Shanks said:
3 Hours Ago
Quote Originally Posted by DanButsu View Post
Hi Will,

Can you talk about the differences between the original HW and what the plugin offers? I am seeing a whole bottom section to the plugin that I don't recognize from the HW unit, and some LEDs changed/missing.

Thanks, Dan


Sure, no problem. First off, some may be wondering why I'm guesting for a product put out by a third party plugin, which I usually don't do. Like the the RMX-16, this project was a really fantastic collaboration between AMS and UA but ultimately the code is AMS's.

To be sure, there's a lot going on with this one. The bottom section is loosely based on the exceedingly rare auxillary keyboard and chorus controller that could be connected to the main unit. See the product page, the photo shows the controller clearly: www.uaudio.com/uad-plugins/d...h-shifter.html

This bottom section provides some early features from the somewhat large revision history of the DMX, such as a regeneration filter and and channel A phase inversion. These features were dropped from later revisions, but I have to say both are extremely useful to the processor's sound design capabilities. The lower panel also provides plugin-only continuous panning for the two channels, and dedicated pots for delay time and pitch that were not available on the hardware or aux controller. And of course there are chorus controls as they appeared on the OG hardware. it is interesting to note, the chorus controller was only compatible with certain later revisions of the DMX. I bought a controller unit and realized after the fact our unit was not compatible, so testing the plugin's chorus evaluation was relegated to one of our hardcore DMX fans and advisers, who had a compatible unit. (AMS of course also had their own chorus controller).

Other plugin only features include standard tempo sync and Dry/Wet Mix and Solo, all implemented exactly as done on internal UA plugins. Two plugin-only features for the VCO section are VCO2 which provides a pair of oscillators phase offset by 90 degrees, and VCO Set which allows setting and automating positive or negative waveform excursions from the zero crossing--useful for getting 100% repeatable mixes from the usually free-running VCO section. If you look at UA's plugin catalog, you'll see that these features are also lifted from previously shipped plugins, such as the Moog Multimode Filter XL. There's also a bit depth setting if you click the "D" keypad button. The default is 15 bits as with the hardware, but may be reduced to 14, 13 or 12. There's also "Off" with takes out the converter bit depth limitation.

Beyond that, there's also UA's usual hidden convenience buttons hidden in the labeling and graphics. There's also meaningful values in the scrollwheel tuning; When hovering the Pitch pots, they move in semitones up and down the one octave range. I also spent quite a bit of time helping with the manual, which I really recommend you check out to understand the full potential of this truly amazing design. Like I mentioned earlier the algo, apps and GUI are AMS with UA design, fit/finish, sonic and technical qualification.

The only features missing from the plugin are the "Lock In" parameters, which turned the DMX into a sampler and playback trigger. As I said in my previous post, this might have been the first meaningful multi-effects unit. This was a hugely innovative and popular feature at the time, but deemed of little use for modern workflows by our panel of users/advisers. Removing these features also made room for the modern convenience features.“

Send plugs, not sympathy!

Seriously, Will Shanks, UA Pm has dedicated Q&A thread so you can talk directly to him about the plug.

Understood, been there for years, only a few bad apples,everyone else very helpful.

I am not there so much since moving to Aurora but still use and value UA plugs for sure.

I wasn’t using Luna and my 2012 mbp is marooned at Catalina, so new UA releases were informative, but that’s all as I couldn’t update.

Yesterday bought a used m1 Mac mini and will restore with big sur (previous owner loaded Monterey: drag), but I already checked out some of the retina ready UA plugs in logic: nice.

UA is continuing to make progress on those.

I won’t pay full pop for ams delay, but will eventually get it as I do like that ams sound, used to have the reverb.

It's just a forum of 15 guys saying "I love you UAD" "No, I love UAD even more" "awww, so cute the new UAD release"

I mean, I'm fine with couples doing baby talk, but grown mans doing baby talk towards a company. Nah, I'll have to pass.

They should

I don't have anything to do with ads, but pitch me on it. What are the numbers? What are you offering metrics-wise? What sort of ROI will we see? Feel free to send me this info offline.