Post by Martin John Butler on Nov 16, 2014 16:36:28 GMT -6
Last Thursday, UAD and Gannon Kashiwa hosted a wonderful UAD demonstration at the lovely Studio D in Greenpoint Brooklyn. It was a cold rainy night, and Greenpoint is kind of the middle of nowhere, but it's really cool there, and it was great to see so many of the real hardware pieces some of our favorite plugs are modeled after sitting in the wall racks.
There's a lot more to the Apollo system than I've uncovered, one surprise was there are ways to manipulate headphone mixes, not that I understand it all yet. There were two fantastic singer/songwriters performing through the Apollo Twin and an Octo satellite and the SSL board there. Gannon was so welcoming, and the entire event was fun and highly informative.
They were demonstrating how the Unison technology works, and I absolutely LOVED the 1073 preamp with Unison technology
I mentioned how frustrating it's been when instantiating a plug to have to look through the entire let of plugs trying to find the one you want, and Gannon was clearly aware of it, and I suspect UAD will fix this little annoyance at some point. I mentioned that it would be a real help to be able to put the plugins in a list, in any order we like, or at least highlight the ones we own and use. It's a small thing of course, but one I suspect bugs most of us a little.
I'm excited about the Apollo system again, and can't wait to try the satellite with the Ocean Ways and a few plugs I've never used properly because I run out of DSP power. Now, all I need is to find a couple grand somewhere ;-)
There's a lot more to the Apollo system than I've uncovered, one surprise was there are ways to manipulate headphone mixes, not that I understand it all yet. There were two fantastic singer/songwriters performing through the Apollo Twin and an Octo satellite and the SSL board there. Gannon was so welcoming, and the entire event was fun and highly informative.
They were demonstrating how the Unison technology works, and I absolutely LOVED the 1073 preamp with Unison technology
I mentioned how frustrating it's been when instantiating a plug to have to look through the entire let of plugs trying to find the one you want, and Gannon was clearly aware of it, and I suspect UAD will fix this little annoyance at some point. I mentioned that it would be a real help to be able to put the plugins in a list, in any order we like, or at least highlight the ones we own and use. It's a small thing of course, but one I suspect bugs most of us a little.
I'm excited about the Apollo system again, and can't wait to try the satellite with the Ocean Ways and a few plugs I've never used properly because I run out of DSP power. Now, all I need is to find a couple grand somewhere ;-)
