UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In
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UAD Sound City Studios Plug-In
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Z. Toman
Native only
As always, the plugin sounds good, but the native-only option is disappointing. It seems that UA is slowly abandoning the hardware, and professional users in general, for the cash cow that is the casual home user. I don't mean that as a disparaging to casual users. Rather, both groups have different needs. I need to have the ability to run plugins on the way in, on the Apollo, as part of my workflow.
And with the constant sales and price drops, what is a UA plugin truly worth in late 2023/early 2024? I never minded the price, as long as I got the absolutely best plugins money could buy. But is that what we're getting? Is Sound City up to the standard of the classic Ocean Way? I'm not sure.
J. Castro
UA what's going on? No Native?
I spent a lot of money to have DSP power now, this is Native only? come on guys what's happening? also your Customer Service/Technical Support is terrible nowdays. If you continue like this, you're going to lose a lot of your fan/customer base and become just like an regular low quality plugin company
A. Skage
Turns your little village into sound city
Flexibility for days, sweet sounding ambiences and reverb . Highly tweekable room solution for pop rock productions . Love it.
D. Lawrence
People need to stop
For years everyone complained about UAD not being Native. Now they finally did it and people are one starring a pristine plugin. What is wrong with people? THIS PLUGIN IS PERFECT. Do your self a favor and disregard the stars. The low overall rating is due to people angry that they missed a sale or that the plugin does not run on UA DSP.
c. chamberlain
SoundCity
As a longtime OceanWay user I felt I knew what to expect. As much as I dig OW, SC is a major surprise. Really well done. Great room, with certainly more obvious character than OW which is a wonderful purpose built room that is way more subtle. With SoundCity that sound is there on default. Great tweak ability to shape any sound source. I love drums in there. Ditto acoustic piano (so far). Very nice on acoustic guitar/electric guitar. Really good on multi voice harmonies. It’s OK on lead vocals but that might be my problem getting there and not the plugin. Thanks Team UA… I will be using it a lot going forward.
E. Montoya
Fantastic reverb
This makes my acoustic track sound professional. Thanks UA for creating another wonderful plugin, thanks also for the sale. Great job!
S. Batten
Be careful. The stereo imaging is really weird.
Initially was very impressed……then after playing with it on a parallel drum buss it does weird stuff, and the snare disappears……and it does something really wrong in the stereo imaging…..hit the mono button and see how much phase it kills. Use very very sparingly. It also adds an ugly low end boom to everything.
H. Yong
Apollo Version?
Great plug in.
Will there be a version that works with Apollo ?
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Sound City / Scam City
Bought this plugin at my “discounted” offer. Then UA dropped the two for 99 offer. When I contacted them to see if there was a way to maybe take advantage of the new offer, they have ghosted me for over a week. A no is fine, but maybe rolling me in to the two plug-in deal would be way cooler. But you’d have to respond to emails in a timely manner for that to be an option. Great plugs. Terrible Customer Service.
P. Carbonaro
ripoff
charged me full price and a day later put plugins on sale. not happy
K. Kelley
Nice!
Very Kool!
C. Allen
First use: Wow! Just Wow!
I've been a long-time user and appreciator of Ocean Way Studio's room plugin. But this Sound City Studios plugin is NEXT LEVEL! I initially brought in some pro-mixed drums (from purchased studio multi-tracks). A few tweaks and the improvement was near instantaneous. With familiarity with OWS, I found it quite intuitive to make adjustments. The dynamics section is a nice bonus! Making it unnecessary to add additional plugins. This is truly one-stop shopping for room drums optimization!
G. Hudson
Didn't bother!!
I was going to buy this and another in the last offer, until I realised it's native only.
I have a new I9 12core with 64gb of ddr5 ram so no issues running this plugin, but I also have an apollo quad and octo and quad pcie cards .
Why did I buy these UA, if I can't use my expensive hardware on new released. plugins .
Another really annoyed loyal customer, who feels let down because you're now chasing the native subscription market.
E. ARRUDA
Sound City gives a slight flavor of Dolby Atmos scenery.
I already owned Ocean Way Studios. There has been progress in some different features included in Sound City. Judging by Sound City's beautiful sound, I think UAD missed the chance to develop a plugin in this category to operate in a Dolby Atmos scenario. Btw, UAD is owing other tools for the Dolby Atmos scenario.
j. jorquera
Complemento Nativo
Me decepciona que no se puede utilizar con el satélite o con el DSP de un interfaz de Universal Audio. Ya no hay diferencia entre waves y UAD
E. LOPES DE OLIVEIRA
Great sound.
Got UAD complete....This plugin is amazing!
p. coultrup
blah plugin. cute ui, but does not sound good
i expect more from UAD i got this in a bundle and its just not good. The compressor in it is unique enough to use, but the room and mic emulations are no bueno. You can get better room tones with just random IR's from reddit. The eq and reverb are also not good. Eq is brittle in the top end, harsh and not musical. The lows lack impact and depth. Mids are just gross. Chamber reverb is 3/5 at best. If this is the way UAD is heading.... well, we'll see. im also a little disappointed in UAD in general right now because of their upgrade pricing / lack of customer loyalty, but oh well.
B. Lovette
Pretty heavy CPU usage.
Pretty heavy CPU usage. Added one instance to a reasonable size session, maybe 18 tracks and two other reverbs. Immediately killed my 2018 Mac mini intel i7. Even at the highest buffer setting. Maybe I’ll try freezing some tracks or getting rid of other plug-ins. Was really looking forward to experimenting with this plug-in. May have to look at a newer M2 now.
J. Keen
An addendum
I'm running this on a 2015 Mac Book Po with 16GB RAM and two instances applied to subgroups. Not a hiccup. Print the desired effects to new tracks, then remove the plugin and move on. Simple DAW workflow working with what you have.
B. jacques
NON APOLLO
Je viens d'acheter ce plugins ! grande déception.
Il ne fonctionne uniquement en vst ou natif. Je reconnais qu'il est de bonne qualité, mais pour un tiers du prix il y a plein de plugins vst beaucoup moins cheret aussi bon..
Pourquoi il n'est pas compatible Apollo? Je pensais que tout les plugins UAD etait par defaut
Apollo compatible. Comment faire pour l’échanger car je n'ai pas d’utilité en natif ?