UAD-2 PCIe DSP Accelerator Cards
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UAD-2 PCIe Cards
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M. Arias
Since 2004
I'm using (UAD) since 2004 and have never failed to excellent ....
The robust and reliable equipment to 100%
The sound quality is spectacular.
Very good work boys
thanks
S. Grush
Best choice I've made.
Well, I've been rocking my small bundle of a competitor plugin manufacturer that I had to get for my school work. This UAD has been an amazing upgrade. I'm 4 mixes in and everything just rocks. It's like everything I was doing right got amplified.
My favorite part is the relief that this card has given my MacPro. Checking the DSP my computer system usage was hovering around 10% and I reached about 41% on the Octo (10GB Ram in a 2009 Mac Pro) while mixing. I mean, I had a good amount of plugins on the mix and not one PT crash. This purchase is exactly what I needed.
I would and have recommended this product to others. Especially if you plan to mix in the box on the regular.
M. Karnalyuk
UAD-2 PCIe DSP Accelerator
Perfect DSP aid but would be nice to have to increase the number of processors in the DSP card.
S. Karyshev
UAD-2 OCTO
I sell my UAD-2 QUAD and bought UAD-2 OCTO. This card makes me have double power in one slot! Thats very good!
B. Lochschmidt
A must have!
Thank you UA for this peace of software and hardware. Since i used UA-Plugs my Studio sounds so different! Better, Warmer.... !
H. James
Lots of torque
Started running out of processing power with a quad at 96k .
Added the octo and now it looks like there is dsp forever.
J. Jacobsen
This thing rocketh
I'm so thrilled to now have the power to run dozens of tracks with Studer, several instances of Massive Passive, multiple Shadow Hills compressors, pretty much whatever I need/want. Just makes mixing a joyful process.
R. Schwabe
Enough power
I try to use a few plugins as possible when mixing, but this system offers me more than I need. Sounds pretty damn great too.
S. Renius
UAD Octo Power & the download Session
Hey Guys,
the Octo Card is very powerful and makes me happy ;-).
Only I had problems with the downloads Version 7.0. I need a lot of downloads til the right result. And now I can not select a demo-mode in the Software for test new UAD PlugIns....
At present I combine the octo in my workflow with built in my Mac Pro and on the road with my Book i use a sonnet chassis. A new Satelite Octo would be the best . My Wish for the future...
So sorry for my english...
Best regards to America ;-)
Thank you for your cool development. You all are doing a good job.
I am a very big fan!
Your
Stephan
PS: In this time I have often Problems with my Satelite Quad _ Firewire 800 to my Mac Pro.If I don't working some minutes ist the fw- stream interrupted
H. Engstrom
uad octo
I honestly didn't think it would be this good, but hands up, it's a fantastic piece of gear! Totally changed the way I mix and I now very rarely reach for my hardware stuff. To have that many instances available open up so many possibilities. +++++
R. Klebs
no more track freezing within logic
I use Apple Logic with UAD plugs. As an upgrade from my UAD SOLO card I am really happy to now just mix songs without the need for freezing tracks running UAD plugs. It is so cool to just tweek any UAD plug whenever I want without having trouble to un-freeze tracks. Love it.
René
A. Robert
Extra horsepower w pcie!!
I've gone from uad solo laptop, to uad quad satellite, and now I'm flying hyperspeed with via thunderbolt & pcie! Feels like a whole new beast in the studio :)
W. Wei
Very magical dsp card
This is really an exciting product, the sound is surprisingly good, the sound of analog hardware is very good! Worthy of the hardware simulation model!
The same time, this product is in pro Tools 10 where can actually use the 200 plug-in, the the DSP utilization rate is 93%!
Amazing!
B. Lederer
Octo Rules!
I installed the card - registered it and went on with the Pluggz! The Power of the card is outstanding. So far I never had an issue on my Cubase7-Win64 Engine. Thanx UA - Great Work!!!
J. Orr
From UAD 1 to The Octo!!!
I started using UAD plug ins the moment they were available. Unlike some of you rich kids that were able to buy them all at once, I took my time and purchased them on an as needed bases. I now own practically all of the plug ins, the Apollo and the Octo Card. Thanks UAD for helping me create the sound in my studio and recordings.
D. Pyle
New Octo plusses/minusses
It's hard to give a star rating cuz I can't tell exactly what factors are contributing to my current issues. On Mac, Octo card requires OS 10.8 so I had to update that first.
The card itself is fantastic. I love being able to have my own channel strip setup on every channel without having to strategize which tracks deserve limited CPU available. Using multiple instances of real power hog plugs (Lexicon, Manley Massive Passive...) is a relief. I can use whatever I want where I want without second thought.
...or can I? I experience regular freezes that result in force-quit, and constant lag from drives having gone to sleep. Despite having a very powerful computer, there is a data jam somewhere that may or may not be due to Octo card.
M. Mallett
Worth it, but...
The UAD plugins are excellent, and truly do craft the sound according to their analog counterparts. I purchased a UAD Solo and UAD Duo Satellite. Unfortunately, this is still not enough horsepower to fully treat a mix, unless you are willing to bounce tracks all day. The bottom line is that you have to be prepared to invest at least $4000 to really transform your DAW into an analog mixer. But when one considers that a single piece of analog gear could be several thousand dollars, then the investment is put back into perspective. Is it worth it? Absolutely. I wouldn't mix digitally without UAD's software. And customer support is top notch. The biggest downside is trying to figure out which plugins you want since there's so many choices!
P. Talbot
Great!
I badly needed something to lower the load of my PC for hungry VST, and found out about UAD PCI cards.
Not only does it help tremendously, but it gave me access to an amazing library of some of the best sounding VSTs I ever listened to! I love the warm analog sound and quality of these plugins.
With a bigger budget I'd be buying the whole lot!
C. Van
Warp speed!
Give me warp speed Scotty! It's a well known sentence from Captain Kirk's Enterprise.....But this is actually what happened with my HP Z400 after installing the UAD-2 PCI-e Octo. For many years i have been using plug ins on my DAW-system; (HP Z400) from other suppliers. They used a lot of CPU power and i just had to find a solution to get rid of this problem. Many times i just didn't get enough CPU power to finish projects properly. With this UAD-2 Octo, it is a story from the past. This DSP accelerator card gives you warp speed without taking memory from it! I can recommend the UAD-2 Octo to everyone.Without using one single bit of RAM memory from your computer, you'll be able to use better plug ins than you have ever used before!
A. Boiko
UAD 2 Octo core
Superpowerful device! Fast working, my mixes get a new life with that DSP! I think to buy the same octo to my second computer! Thanx UA!)