UAD V. 8.0 Released

I LOVE Friedman amps.  Baaaad ass.  The real ones that is, don't know about these.  Hope they're close.

you need tbolt card now for C2

in the fall C2 will run FW

sorry that's all she wrote, but thats much better than not at all ?

What's the word?

OK, now I'm pissed off. UAD sends me an email announcing UAD version 8.0, and I'm left out of it? I paid $2,000 for an Apollo when no one knew if this thing would float, and I'm repaid by being ignored. Essentially they're saying too bad if I can't afford a Thunderbolt card? Fine, if they weren't just giving it away to new customers. I can get a Twin for $699, and they still insist on asking their bread and butter customers $500, just for a card alone. I'm sorry, but something's just very wrong about this. The very very least they can do is offer those of us left out in the cold a hand back in. Like I said, either a one time only at cost Thunderbolt card, or a special offer 3 plugs for $399 with a T-Bolt card.

I'll really consider dumping UAD if I have to, and I've been a vocal supporter of them since day one. One customer may not matter, but a reputation does, and with the power of the internet, we have a voice that can be heard by thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Where are we at with our little Apollo thread over at the site which shouldn't be named? a million views. That ought to tell them something.. don't bite the hands that feed, they may start biting back.

Martin John Butler all apollo users will have console 2 functionality by the fall initially it has just been released over thunderbolt, not to slight anyone but probably because it was easier and less problematic. while as a fellow early adopter I understand your perspective, are you truly making the argument that UA or any company should without features until all can have them and yo ignore the advantages of a better comm protocol over the vulnerabilities of a lesser protocol ?

UA is in a highly competitive space where is its answer to the new apogee ensemble ?

I am personally grateful that ua has chosen to invest in adding significant new features to our existing interfaces, in effect renewing them and if a phased timing approach is required how is that so terrible ?

All our apollo's work as advertised and all will get these new features too: just not all at once.

C2 is nice to look at does it actually make my recordings sound better ? Not at all .

the best thing in your system my friend is whats not in your system at all: those great ears of yours and all that musical knowledge between them is a shitload more important than the eye candy and some workflow enhancements that you'll have soon enough anyway on FW in the fall: why its almost poetic what pathos

Aren't they doing a 3/$399 promo right now?

don't know either i thought they showed that in the namm videos but i can't seem to find it look for the lev video

its not in the pt 1-2 new videos in the ua youtube videos just checked

that's just for plugs no tbolt card but it does save you the price of the card so pick your poison

I was suggesting UAD create a buy in plug offer for non-Thunderbolt customers, hoping word gets back to UAD. I'll send UAD a formal letter when I can.

Here's my frustration: I have an Apollo quad and Satellite quad over tbolt...yet, the mem/pgm/dsp limit per console channel only allows me to run one instance of the Unison 1073 with very few other plugs in the signal chain (i.e., the fatso), regardless of sample rate...I'm only using about 15% of total DSP with the Unison 1073 at 96 kHz, so what gives with the seemingly arbitrary dsp limit per console channel? Why do I have all of this horsepower when their proprietary software ultimately restricts how/where/when I can put it to use? Grrr...

P.S. This idiosyncrancy remains unchanged in C2 from C1.

jk this was posted at ua forum

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