LUNA Pro Bundle Reviews

At $99 this is the bargain of the millenium. The API emulations, the tape emulations and the outboard is about all the software you need to create very musical and punchy pro level old school recordings and mixes. And you need an Apollo hardware unit and a Mac (16GB Ram and up). Real Pro level, you say? Add 2 or more Apollo 8P. The built-in preamps are great, and with the Unison pres like this API 212, it is beyond great.

The emulations run on the internal ressources, where as the plug-ins like the outboard run on the external DSP of the Apollo. You can add that, so the cheapest Apollo twin Duo is more than enough as long as you have the Ram.

I have recorded on real Neve, Trident, SSL, Fairchild and Studer A80 + A800 and just to clarify that - This will not sound exactly like a console with great tape machine, but since they never sounded the same, this will give you nearly all the sound and fidelity without the limitations of the physical number of channels, tracks and outboard.

If you have the Mac and the UA hardware, you need LUNA with this bundle now. At 699 it was a great deal, at 99 it is a steal.

Many great things can be said about UA and Luna. I consider myself a big fan; always providing feedback, bug report and all so far.

Most companies sell plugins in bundles in a way that owned plugins counts towards discounts. There are also other strategies to spare costumers from buying the same plugin twice. Worst of all, once you buy an UA plugin twice it's even ignored by UA connect, so I suppose it can't even be sold or donated to a friend...

However, one thing that deeply annoys me is the fact that bundles do not offer discounts based on how many plugins you already own. That way, purchasing plugins gets really expensive, specially from a third world country perspective (devaluated currency). I'd love to have the console extensions but it seems almost impossible for me to buy them since this is the only bundle with it and I already own mostly all other plugins in Luna Pro.