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Enter a World of Iconic Studios, Analog Gear, and Pro Instruments

Step up to professional sound with 56 UAD plug-ins curated for any genre of music production — no UA hardware required.

Get twelve new titles in Version 2 including Topline Vocal Suite, new UAD guitar amp plug-ins, SSL 4000 E Channel and G Bus Compressor, Verve Analog Machines, Ampex ATR-102, and more.

From the sound of legendary Sound City, Hitsville, and Capitol studios to iconic API compressors, rare mastering tools, and channel strips — over $9,000 in value if purchased separately — UAD Signature Edition gives you the best of Universal Audio's native plug-ins, in a single bundle.

No Hardware Required

No Hardware Required

UAD Signature Edition plug-ins run natively on Mac or PC and work with any compatible DAW including Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, LUNA, and more.

Included Versions

UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

Apollo Realtime & UAD‑2
Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD‑2 hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Elevate your vocals with Topline Vocal Suite, an all-in-one vocal chain combining our most popular analog tools with state-of-the-art pitch correction, so your vocals are perfectly in tune
  • Add rich analog sound to your recordings with channel strips from legendary brands like API, SSL, Avalon, and more
  • Sculpt your mixes with classic Pultec EQs and rare mastering tools from the legendary Hitsville U.S.A. studio
  • Inject tape warmth on any track element with our best emulations from Studer, Ampex, Verve Analog Machines, and more
  • Add ambience to your mixes with award-winning plate and digital reverbs, tape echos, and modulation effects
  • Stay inspired with album-ready guitar amplification, grand piano, electric piano, and organ sounds indistinguishable from the real thing

NEW! Topline Vocal Suite

Topline Vocal Suite is the only plug-in of its kind — perfectly marrying modern vocal tuning with best in class UAD analog studio effects. So you get everything you need to create perfect vocal mixes, effortlessly.

NEW! UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amplifier

The native UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amplifier plug-in gives you the essential American tube amp sounds used by artists and producers for more than 60 years, from Muddy Waters to The Beatles to Elvis Costello*.

NEW! UAD Lion '68 Super Lead Amp

The native UAD Lion '68 Super Lead Amp plug-in gives you the classic British amp sounds made famous by decades of legendary artists including Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and more*.

NEW! UAD Ruby '63 Top Boost Amplifier

The native UAD Ruby '63 Top Boost Amplifier plug-in gives you the quintessential British valve amp tones beloved by artists and producers for over 60 years, from Queen to U2 to Radiohead*.

NEW! SSL 4000 G Bus Compressor

Discover the rich sound of legendary British compression with the authentic SSL 4000 G Bus Compressor — now available as a UAD Native plug-in, no Apollo required! Integral to the hit-making SSL sound, the G Bus Compressor has been a secret weapon for artists like Michael Jackson on "Thriller" and modern stars like Adele on "25," making mixes bigger, more powerful, and punchy while enhancing cohesion and clarity.

NEW! SSL 4000 E Channel Strip

Unlock the iconic sound of the SSL 4000 console with the SSL 4000 E Channel Strip, now available as a UAD Native plug-in. This authentic British channel strip brings the warmth, punch, and unmistakable analog character that has shaped countless hit records from Nirvana’s “Nevermind” to Bruno Mars’ - "24K Magic". With precise EQ, dynamic control, and the classic VCA compressor, the SSL 4000 Channel Strip provides unparalleled versatility and sonic excellence.

NEW! Verve Analog Machines Essentials

Verve Analog Machines Essentials puts 4 playful vintage sounds right in your DAW. Give your recordings the colorful analog saturation and effects heard on countless hip-hop, lo-fi, electronic, rock, and experimental tracks.

NEW! Verve Analog Machines

Verve Analog Machines puts vintage sound at the ready with 10 colorful UA‑designed effects with settings that are super easy to dial in. Shape tones quickly with simple controls like drive, tone, and tape warble.

NEW! LA-6176 Signature Channel Strip

Experience Universal Audio’s 70+ year analog heritage with a supercharged plug-in version of our flagship tube channel strip, the 6176. The LA‑6176 Signature Channel Strip plug-in gives you three iconic UA products in one: the 610 mic preamp, the 1176 Limiting Amplifier, and the LA‑2A Leveling Amplifier.

NEW! Ampex ATR-102

The Ampex ATR-102 UAD plug-in and LUNA Extension provides the final “analog glue” for your music, turning your recordings into records. The only emulation that’s fully authenticated by the Ampex Corporation, and trusted by producers and engineers the world over, the Ampex ATR-102 puts the colorful saturation, warmth, and harmonics of this industry-standard tape machine at your command.

NEW! Manley® Variable Mu Limiter Compressor

As Manley Labs' flagship compressor since 1994, the Vari Mu is a tube and transformer-driven classic that exudes handmade craftsmanship and is the gold standard among mixing and mastering engineers. The Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor plug-in gives your stereo buses or your entire mix the same clarity and cohesion as the high-end hardware.

NEW! Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection

Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection gives you the same fat midrange, assertive growl, and unmistakable attitude used to craft hundreds of iconic albums from Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and many more.*

UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In

Get the authentic sound of the world's most famous rock & roll studio, including its legendary rooms, mic collection, iconic British console, analog outboard gear, and reverb chamber.

Capitol Chambers

Record and mix with the world's only authentic plug-in emulation of Capitol Studios' prized underground echo chambers and add dense, natural reverberation to vocals or drums — far beyond plate, digital, or simple convolution reverb.

Capitol Mastering Compressor

Give your tracks the velvet touch of Capitol's handbuilt mastering compressor and easily increase perceived loudness, tighten low end, and expand your stereo width with the same compressor used on catalogs from Capitol, Blue Note, Motown, and more.

Hitsville EQ Collection

Get instant "Motown Sound" on vocals, drums, bass and more with the only EQ emulations officially licensed by the legendary Hitsville U.S.A. studio. Plus, produce fuller stereo mixes using Hitsville's rare mastering EQ and custom Motown filters.

Hitsville Reverb Chambers

Immerse yourself in the glorious sound of the attic reverb chambers that shaped the Motown Sound with easy-to-use controls, including distinct speaker and mic selections in each chamber, to make your vocals, drums, and hand claps soar.

API Vision Channel Strip Collection

Get the sound of API's flagship analog console, and add the same unmistakable punch, presence, and color used on everything from Stevie Wonder's Innervisions to Radiohead's In Rainbows.

API 2500 Bus Compressor

Create energy, movement, and tone for your stereo mixes and subgroups unlike any other compressor with an exacting emulation of the hardware that's a permanent fixture on the stereo bus of many of the world's top engineers and producers.

Manley Massive Passive EQ

Dial in punch, air, sizzle, and clarity without adding harshness using Manley’s ultra-boutique tube EQ, perfect for mixes or mastering.

Manley VOXBOX Channel Strip

Get luxurious vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, voiceovers, and more with Manley’s high-fidelity, flagship tube channel strip.

Avalon VT-737 Tube Channel Strip

Get consistently polished results full of radio-ready gloss and detail with Avalon's flagship VT-737 channel strip —the best-selling standalone channel strip ever made — and the dominant player in chart-topping pop, hip-hop, and R&B productions.

dbx 160 Compressor/Limiter

Whether you’re using it on synths, bass guitar, or a drum bus, the dbx 160 plug-in gives you the original hardware’s grabby, low-end glue and old-school character — a must-have for any engineer’s compressor toolkit.

Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor

Add the versatile, super-fast compressor that's the choice for modern producers looking to add creative colors to drums, vocals, and guitars.

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Get the same silky, warm compression heard on hundreds of hit records from The Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics with the most accurate emulations ever made of these rare tube limiters.*

Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb

Add the famously lush ambience that defined the sound of an entire era with a bit-for-bit emulation of the classic '80s studio hardware that remains one of the most popular digital reverb units of all time.

Manley Tube Preamp

Add instant life to vocals and bass, punch up acoustic guitars and drums, or push synths forward with the authentic sound of Manley tube hardware.

Studer A800 Tape Recorder

Add warmth, presence, cohesion, and low-end punch that only genuine tape can provide with the proven hit-making sound of a genuine Studer tape machine.

Teletronix LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler

Famous for pushing sounds right to the front of your speakers with a unique, aggressive character, get all the tone and dynamics control of this highly-coveted hardware — perfect for vocals, acoustic guitar, drums, and more.

UA 175B & 176 Tube Compressor Collection

Based on a pair of UA's 1960s golden units, this Collection gives your vocals, drums, and synths all the ultra-musical harmonics and colorful saturation of the original ultra-rare hardware.

Electra 88 Vintage Keyboard Studio

Get the album-ready sound of a 1974 Rhodes Eighty Eight Suitcase Mark 1 electric piano,* along with a fully stocked "vintage" studio of pro production tools — for in‑the‑box tones nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.

Moog Minimoog

Add the fat, musically expressive sounds of the most iconic synthesizer ever made — from Kraftwerk to Parliament-Funkadelic, Yes to Dr. Dre — with our industry‑leading expertise in circuit modeling, synthesis, and signal processing.**

Opal Morphing Synthesizer

An epic-sounding flagship synth that's perfect for producers, sound designers, and musicians, Opal is our analog-meets-wavetable synth that gives you huge-sounding morphing filters and powerful UA effects, for album-ready sounds, no matter how deep you explore.

Ravel Grand Piano

Perfect for modern music productions from pop to rock, R&B to hip‑hop, get album-ready sonics and inspiring playability with our breathtaking emulation of a Steinway Model B grand piano* that goes far beyond other piano plug-ins and sample libraries with its unprecedented realism.

Waterfall B3 Organ

Explore the world's most thorough emulation of the classic Hammond B3 organ and its companion Leslie 147 rotary speaker cabinet,* giving your music the same rich tone and three‑dimensional sound heard on decades of legendary albums.

Waterfall Rotary Speaker

Immerse yourself in the jaw-dropping sounds of the classic Leslie 147 rotary speaker cabinet,* and envelope your guitars, vocals, keyboards, and more in chewy, three-dimensional modulation effects — far beyond chorus and flange — for classic textures heard on decades of legendary albums.

1176 Classic Limiter Collection

Give character and punch to vocals, guitars, bass, drums, and anything else with three distinct versions of this easy‑to‑use limiter, used on more records than any compressor ever made.

Studio D Chorus

An exacting emulation of a late-'70s Roland Dimension D,* add the same "secret sauce" analog widening effects used by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian Eno, M83, and more, for stunning analog modulation textures — with the push of a button.**

Brigade Chorus

Flatter your guitars, vocals, and synths with the luxuriant analog modulation effects of a vintage BOSS CE‑1 Chorus Ensemble* and enjoy three-dimensional movement and shimmer.

PolyMAX Synth

Our vintage-inspired synth gives producers, sound designers, and musicians fat analog tones from the golden age of polysynthesis with warm, analog-modeled oscillators and filters, professional UA effects, and curated presets that easily fit into any genre — for album‑ready sounds instantly.

Century Tube Channel Strip

Enhance your vocals, guitars, synths, and more with a vintage-style tube mic preamp, simple three-band EQ, and optical compressor designed to give you everything you need to capture "first take" magic.

Pultec Passive EQ Collection

Featuring three astonishingly accurate Pultec EQs that are indistinguishable from the original analog hardware, get the same silky curves used by the engineers of John Mayer, Daft Punk, and Mariah Carey, on your vocals, drums, keys and more.*

Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveler Collection

Get smooth, radio-ready vocals, guitars, and bass with three highly sought-after versions of the most famous optical tube compressor ever made — and the go-to for professional mixers worldwide.

Galaxy Tape Echo

Add subtle tape delay and colorful cacophony to drums, vocals, guitars, and synths with the definitive emulation of an iconic analog contraption used by everyone from Pink Floyd and David Bowie, to King Tubby, Scientist, and Lee “Scratch” Perry.*

Pure Plate Reverb

Experience UA's revolutionary plate reverb emulation in a simple, easy-to-use package — with all of the essential features. Revel in the sonic and mechanical nuances of the steel plate, transducers, and dampers, and give your vocals, guitars, strings, and synths lush, satisfying ambience.

Oxide Tape Recorder

Based on our award-winning Ampex and Studer tape machine emulations, Oxide Tape Recorder gives you the warmth, presence, and vibe of professional analog tape, with only the essential controls, so you can get sounds faster and make everything "sound like a record."

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FAQ

Is Universal Audio hardware required to use these plug-ins?

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware required.

Can I try native UAD plug-ins before I buy?

Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins ›

If I purchase a UAD plug-in, do I get a license for native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions?

Yes, for every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both.

I own an Apollo or UAD-2 hardware, is this for me?

Yes, absolutely, our new bundles provide tremendous value on some of our most popular collections of plug-ins, and native versions are included for the best of both worlds. Native UAD plug-ins also allow you to record and mix on-the-go without attaching UAD hardware.

*All trademarks are property of their respective owners, and used only to represent the instruments modeled as part of UAD plug-ins.

Customer Reviews

UAD Signature Edition 2

Overall Rating

4.8/5
(18436)

C. M

November 20, 2024

68 Super Lead Amp Plugin.

Very nice overall, but didn't get a choice for Apollo hardware plugins.
heavy on the CPU in native DAW mode!

i. copeland

November 19, 2024

If your here , You know what’s up

“Apollo Dual , Quad ,
Heritage Edition , and A Nuemann
103 or 87 mic / Beyer Dynamic Cans
/an Akai MPC live 2 / Mac Book Pro
Logic & Luna
Abelton

“Don’t play around”

IndioPoet

O. Ramos

November 19, 2024

Fabulosos

Me encanta estos productos me han sido de mucha utilidad.

A. Marshall

November 18, 2024

Mr A

So many options to sound professional

S. Dolby

November 17, 2024

Sounds fantastic on my guitar sounds

It has a unique sound that make my guitar sounds even better, simple plugin but powerful .

P. Lobos

November 17, 2024

Useful tool to enhance a mix

Although this plugin cannot save a bad mix, it can help you add that crucial 5-10% that makes the difference between a good mix and a truly interesting one. It has now become one of my go-to plugins on my mix bus.

S. WHITE

November 17, 2024

A bit better than the cubase one.

This is an easy to use plugin which will work on almost any sound, it is working fine natively on my windows 10 pc. I did get very similar results with the magneto 2 which came with cubase. However the UA one is a touch more rounded and refined, so it takes my preference. I gave it 4 because I got this on offer and the very next day UA released a better offer whereby i could have got another plugin for free. This hacked me off no end and totally puts me off trying and using plugins from this company again. I know others feel the same and so Ua you need to uniform your prices instead of constantly playing games.

A. Lee

November 16, 2024

Best of the UNISON Pre's

I was surprised that I preferred this over all the other UNISON preamps & channelstrips I have - it was a very nice surprise indeed. Thanks UA, another winner.

D. Pascucci

November 16, 2024

Great Plugins But Awful Upgrade Pricing Moves

I've bought version 1 and upgraded for 2 for in total of 500$, now they discount to new costumers at 300$ all the plugin, that's not how you treat loyal costumers.

E. Yeung

November 16, 2024

Quality, but could be better

This plugin sounds pretty good, especially on clean tones. I haven't been able to get any good edge-of-breakup tones (yet); not sure if it's because I'm not tweaking right or because of the plug, but we'll see. It could be better, though. The gain structure is a bit weird with the Boost and the Volume knobs, and it's definitely un-intuitive to a producer. Also, it could be really awesome if we could mix and match the cabs and the mics - this is something that would have been so easy to do and is done by a lot of other amp sim makers, but is noticeably missing from this plugin. Last thing - I read a couple of review here that say that the plugin is very CPU-heavy; I didn't have that experience - maybe UA fixed it up by the time I downloaded. All-in-all, I'm happy with it. Finally, there's a (pretty) decent amp sim for clean tones.

J. Mora Sánchez

November 15, 2024

Excelente

En mi cadena de vocales trabajo la compresión en serie, siendo el 1176 el primero de dicha serie. (El segundo es el Teletronix LA-2A). Utilizo el modo "Bluey" por su excelente desempeño.

J. Mora Sánchez

November 15, 2024

Excelente

El Teletronix LA-2A es mi segundo en serie en la cadena de vocales (El primero es el 1176). Utilizo el modo "Silver" porque me brinda una calidez increíble y combinado con el 1176 me permite controlar los picos mientras suavizo la dinámica general.

Tanto el 1176 como este LA-2A, los utilizo de como plugins nativos. Estoy ansioso de que saquen pronto los EQs API en versión nativa, porque de momento debo usar los de otra compañía.

B. Wardwell

November 15, 2024

UAD Lion 68 Marshall

Thousands of dollars worth of virtual Marshall amps for a fraction of the cost. Software Engineers at UAD executed superior work performance to create Lion 68. Phenomenal tone.

J. Mora Sánchez

November 15, 2024

Excelente

El Teletronix LA-2A es mi segundo en serie en la cadena de vocales (El primero es el 1176). Utilizo el modo "Silver" porque me brida una calidez increíble y combinado con el 1176 me permite controlar los picos mientras suavizo la dinámica general.

Tanto el 1176 como este LA-2A, los utilizo de como plugins nativos. Estoy ansioso de que saquen pronto los equalizadores API en versión nativa, porque de momento debo usar los de otra compañía.

J. Erato

November 15, 2024

Studio D Chorus

Amazing chorus effects

J. Mora S.

November 15, 2024

Excelente

En mi cadena de vocales trabajo la compresión en serie, siendo el 1176 el primero de dicha serie. (El segundo es el Teletronix LA-2A). Utilizo el modo "Bluey" por su excelente desempeño.

a. subasi

November 15, 2024

Great

Great

J. Mora S.

November 15, 2024

Excelente


El Teletronix LA-2A es mi segundo en serie en la cadena de vocales (El primero es el 1176). Utilizo el modo "Silver" porque me brida una calidez increíble y combinado con el 1176 me permite controlar los picos mientras suavizo la dinámica general.

Tanto el 1176 como este LA-2A, los utilizo de como plugins nativos. Estoy ansioso de poder adquirir los falta en su versión nativa del los equalizadores API, porque me toca usar de otra compañía.

J. Mora S.

November 15, 2024

Excelente

En mi cadena de vocales trabajo la compresión en serie, siendo el 1176 el primero de dicha serie. (El segundo es el Teletronix LA-2A). Utilizo el modo "Bluey" por su excelente desempeño.

A. Burroughs

November 15, 2024

Dream is the right name

Ran some of my previously recorded guitar tracks through the dream plugin and it TOTALLY gave me the sound I’d been looking for. Definitely worth the money!