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API Vision Channel Strip Collection
API Vision Channel Strip Collection

API Vision Channel Strip Collection

4.5 (1303)

Explore the iconic color of API’s flagship analog console.

  • Track and mix through a stunning emulation of API’s flagship analog console channel
  • Sculpt with expanded 10-band graphic EQ module and beloved 550L parametric EQs
  • Punch up signals through the 212L preamp with API’s famed 2520 op-amp and custom transformers
  • Reshape ambience and create dynamic effects with the 235L Gate/Expander
  • Tame transients and craft bold textures with API’s legendary 225L compression circuit
  • Mix with artist presets from Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Morrissey), Ann Mincieli (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey), David Isaac (Marcus Miller, Eric Clapton) & more

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

API Vision Channel Strip Collection

$299

$299

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Explore the Iconic Color of API’s Flagship Console

From Stevie Wonder's Innervisions to Radiohead's In Rainbows, API desks have shaped hit albums for over 50 years. UA's API Vision Channel Strip plug-in artfully captures API's flagship analog console, giving you classic API tone with switchable EQ modules, expertly modeled output section, plus API’s iconic compression, gating, and filter modules.

Sculpt with Parametric and Graphic EQs

The API Vision Channel Strip Collection lets you choose between the revered 550L 4-band parametric EQ and API's famous 560L series 10-band graphic EQ, so you can quickly shape guitars, add aggression to drums, and push vocals forward with analog punch.

Shape Dynamics with the 225L Compressor

From single tracks to your entire mix, the 225L thrives on any instrument in any genre. And with selectable “New” and “Old” functions, you can get two delicious brands of compression from mild to severe.

Get Creative with API Gate/Expander and Filters

The ultra-fast 235L Noise Gate/Expander lets you easily shape ambience and attack on individual sources like kick drums or bass synth, or clamp down on noisy drum kit rattles and gnarly guitar amp noise. Plus, you can expertly craft your source material while preserving its original tone with Hi and Lo pass filters.

Add Instant Magic with the 212L Preamp with Unison

The API Vision Channel Strip Collection gets even better when you use an Apollo interface. With Unison mic preamp technology, you get all the crucial impedance characteristics and gain stage “sweet spots” of API's iconic 212L preamp. Plus, you get the same features found in API's flagship Vision Console with a Mic/Line switch, dedicated cut filter, and ‑6 dB line pad.

What They Say

I’m using the API Vision Console Emulation across all my channels in LUNA and it sounds phenomenal. The dynamics section is amazing, and the ability to toggle between the 550 and 560 EQs is so good!

Butch Walker

Green Day, Weezer, Taylor Swift

The API Vision is a great hybrid of that vintage API sound, plus all the air and quick transient response you want in a modern console. It captures that unique API flavor and tone, plus dynamics, in a single plug‑in.

Joe Chiccarelli

Jason Mraz, Beck, The Strokes, Morrissey

The API Summing Extension for LUNA really brings your mix forward, giving you that tight and punchy bottom end that we’re all looking for.

Jeff Balding

Taylor Swift, The Eagles, Florida Georgia Line

Reviews

4.5
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
Based on 1,303 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 1.1k Total 4 star reviews: 95 Total 3 star reviews: 20 Total 2 star reviews: 7 Total 1 star reviews: 110
89%would recommend this product
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  • PD
    Piotr D.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 hours ago
    Perfect!

    I’m happy with the plugin, sounds much more clear and controled at many levels

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  • JK
    Juneyoung K.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    6 days ago
    Pro-quality API sound at a fraction of the cost

    I’m really impressed with how I can get the classic API channel strip sound for less than 1/10 the price of the hardware. It’s even better that I can use it alongside SSL channel strips for more flexible tone shaping. Great value and great sound – highly satisfied!

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  • BB
    Bakrodeyute B.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    API Vision report

    I have really enjoyed using this plugin since buying it !

    I intend to crank it up to test the extremes in the month ahead...

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  • DB
    David B.
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 2 out of 5 stars
    3 weeks ago
    Lousy UI

    The API Vision plug-in is a good sounding channel strip, but the slavish clinging to the original Desk Strip format makes it practically unusable in a DAW environment. I will never know how good the EQ sounds or how well the dynamics processing works because the user interface is so uninformitive that I refuse to waste my time on it. I have a great set of tools that are effective & easy to use, why bother with yet another EQ. This plug-in subscribes to the 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag philosophy. I will only use it for its subtle improvement of the sound by the analog circuit modeling. UAD, get into the 90s & design a UI that is worthy of the sound.

    -David Brown

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  • MD
    Myron D.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    4 weeks ago
    perfect

    great sound

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Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.

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