What is the opinion of the pre in the Voicemaster Pro? I know this is a channel strip w/ other processing, but I'm interested in pros and cons of the pre section. Does it even touch what the Great Rivers and Universal Audio pres can do? I don't mind spending $1K for a single channel of pre, but if I can get close to that quality for half of that (and get comp.

Univeral Audio (and Mackie!) have released version 3.0 of their Powered Plug-ins. Support for multiple cards, the new Oxford EQ (demo only until you pay!), and other features.

I have not installed yet (I'm gonna wait a week or 2 to be safe!), but you can get it here:

Hi All,
I just wander if you have any experience with UAD-1 powered plugins card made by Univesal Audio and distributed by Mackie? I am mixing almost entirely (except that sometimes i reamp or use external reverb) in Logic Audio 5.10, and I'm a bit tired with the sound quality of software plugins. I heard that UAD-1 sounds really great.

I finally picked up a UAD-1
I am using it with FXspansion's 4.2 beta VST adapter
Using it under wavelab using the wrapper, no problem works great
Using it in sound forge i get some weird problems.
Mainly when I load a second plug, it will say something like "this plugin could not load, expected buffer size is 512 buffer is 2408"

Question for the masters. .Should i keep the dbx Quantum for the better clock/compression/eq/limiter or do you think it wiser to buy a UAD 1 card for the plugs for recording and mastering? Is the clock mucho importante or what? thanks mark

hi,

wonder if someone can help me with this:

i recently updated drivers for the UAD card in my XP pro DAW.
the card was working nicely with v2.1 drivers, but at some point after the driver update (v2.2.6) i got this "device cannot start (code 10)" message in Device ManagerUAD-1 Powered pluginsdriver; and the pluginsare there in Nuendo but don't work.

Universal Audio has just released their latest upgrade to their Powered pluginsthat run on the UAD-1 DSP card, version 2.2. This version includes the long awaited Pultec EQ! (Yeah!)

I haven't tried it, I just downloaded it...I'll let you know how it goes (and sounds!).

Has anyone been using the UAD-1 card with LAP
and the new Mac drivers?
Any comments?

Universal Audio has finally released their 2.10 upgrade to their Powered Plugins that run on the UAD-1 card. This release includes the long-awaited Nigel guitar processor (I would guess it is similar to the Amp Farm for Pro Tools and Warp from Steinberg).

They are also due to release their emulation of the Pultec EQ within the month! Way kewl!

Universal Audio has posted new drivers for the UAD-1 card. Version 2.0 (actually 2.01) of the drivers (dated March 2, 2002) are now available. (Nigel guitar amp sI'm nor the Pultec EQ are released yet, but promised soon)

http://www.uaudio.com/PPI/downloads/quickwin.html

FYI