UAD-1 Question

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I'm thinking about a UAD-1 card, but I have a question.

If I buy one card now - say the lowest bundle. Then later down the road purchase the high end card with all the good plugs, will the new plugs run on both cards, or just the one that they came with?
 
I've been thinking about getting myself a UAD-1 card too but I read somewhere on here you need to put a UAD delay compensation plug on every track in your mix you don't have a UAD plug on.

Can anyone confirm this and is the delay comp cpu friendly?
 
LemonTree said:
I've been thinking about getting myself a UAD-1 card too but I read somewhere on here you need to put a UAD delay compensation plug on every track in your mix you don't have a UAD plug on.

Can anyone confirm this and is the delay comp cpu friendly?
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That depends on your DAW. Some automatically compensate and don't need the comp at all.
 
Hey tree de lemon - Some programs have no latency compensation, some have it partially implimented, and some have it fully implimented. For instance, it may be implimented for inserts, but not for aux sends. I have a TC Powercore card, and the same latency issue exists. It's not the cards latency, it's the two trips over the PCI buss. I use Samplitude Professional, which I believe was the first program to offer full automatic latency compensation, and I can put TC plugs anywhere without latency issues. But when I first got the Powercore nobody had latency comp. So what you did is to create a stereo sub buss, insert a latency compensator on it, and route all the tracks not going to the DSP card to that sub buss. The sub buss then went to the stereo buss, as did all the tracks with DSP card plugins. This way, everything hits the stereo buss delayed by the same amount. It sounds like a bigger hassle than it was, but I sure was glad to upgrade Samplitude when they added auto-latency compensation. Anyway, check that both inserts AND auxs are compensated on your SW of choice.
 
ok I hear you guys. I use Cubase SX2 and I route every track out to a 24 track analog mixer
 
Yup, Cubase SX2 has automatic delay compensation. Easy as pie. SX3 can use outboard hardware effects like plugins with delay compensation and such, which is something I need to get one of these days.

NL5 - the cheap card is the same as the expensive UAD card, it just has more plug-in licenses included. With some of the deals they have been throwing in lately with even the Project pak, you may want to weigh the costs of just buying the ProjectPak for now and the fancy plugins separately as you go, and then buying another ProjectPak card when you feel you could use more processing (the cards can use any of your already licensed plugins). Of course, you may as well get the Ultra pak from the start, because they are all rad. :cool:
 
I've just bought a UAD-1 Flexi Pak. It's like the Studio Pak with another $500 of plugs. The delay compensation works works in GT3 so it will work in Sonar.

I have had some issues with the card. The latest VST version of the plugs have some kind of incompatability with the Cakewalk VST wrapper (apparantly) causing the card do drop out under load. I'm going to try the DXi version which is supposed to be OK.

They are great plugs though. The LA2A and the Pultec are fabulous
 
I use Sonar and have no difficulties whatsoever.I bought the Studiopak and I'm considering a Flexipak. :cool:
 
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