Anyone using the Express Card UAD? I'm interesting in getting one for my MacBook Pro cause I'm mostly writing and recording demos on it now. I'd be interested to hear anyone's experience with it, other than what I've read on the UAD and Frontend website.
Dave.
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by Sheer Noise » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:50 pm
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by heathen » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:22 am
From what I've heard they are great plugins in a severely underpowered card for todays processing requirements, I think some people are only able to load 1 instance of some plugs and the thing just runs out of grunt.
I don't own one, this is what I have read on other forums. Supposed to be outstanding plugs though.
I don't own one, this is what I have read on other forums. Supposed to be outstanding plugs though.
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by OzDrum » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:17 am
this won't answer your question about running one on a macbook but thought I'd clear up the last post by heathen..
as damien stated we have a pcie UAD-1e card in our MacPro running a HD2Accel protools system. there are some great plugins we have on this (Neve etc). there are 2 versions of most of the plugins that run on the card - there are extended versions and SE versions - I really can't tell the difference sonically myself but you can get a lot more SE versions running on your system - see image below. we've found the plugins to be better sonically to a lot of the digidesign plugins and plugins that run directly on protools as TDM and RTAS. the UAD-1 on our system runs on an RTAS Wrapper which doesn't use much RTAS power at all. We can easily run a number of Neve 1083 EQs, Neve 33609 buss compressors, 1176's and Pultec EQ's without running out of steam.
as damien stated we have a pcie UAD-1e card in our MacPro running a HD2Accel protools system. there are some great plugins we have on this (Neve etc). there are 2 versions of most of the plugins that run on the card - there are extended versions and SE versions - I really can't tell the difference sonically myself but you can get a lot more SE versions running on your system - see image below. we've found the plugins to be better sonically to a lot of the digidesign plugins and plugins that run directly on protools as TDM and RTAS. the UAD-1 on our system runs on an RTAS Wrapper which doesn't use much RTAS power at all. We can easily run a number of Neve 1083 EQs, Neve 33609 buss compressors, 1176's and Pultec EQ's without running out of steam.
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by Sheer Noise » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:32 pm
yeah - cool. ta.
I'm keen to try one out on the macbook pro, but it's a lot of money if my machine (and the card) doesn't have the grunt. A few friends have the desktop versions, so I'm familiar with the quality of the plugs themselves and sonically, I love them.
I've actually never used ANY PCI Express cards of any sort in this laptop, although I did have an old PCMCIA (or whatever it is) firewire card on the old powerbook that was GREAT!
Let me know if anyone's used oe in their laptop.
Dave
I'm keen to try one out on the macbook pro, but it's a lot of money if my machine (and the card) doesn't have the grunt. A few friends have the desktop versions, so I'm familiar with the quality of the plugs themselves and sonically, I love them.
I've actually never used ANY PCI Express cards of any sort in this laptop, although I did have an old PCMCIA (or whatever it is) firewire card on the old powerbook that was GREAT!
Let me know if anyone's used oe in their laptop.
Dave
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by electricsound » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:54 pm
I've never quite understood the whinging about the card being 'underpowered'. i have two cards and am never left wanting for processing power (admittedly i don't work above 48k).
the 'only runs one plug' thing all comes down to the full version of the Neve 33609 plug, which i don't own. seems to be a hell of a lot of noise for one plugin.
the 'only runs one plug' thing all comes down to the full version of the Neve 33609 plug, which i don't own. seems to be a hell of a lot of noise for one plugin.
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by Sheer Noise » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:30 am
Hi Kris,
Simply - yes - I think so - or something similar.
I have a few nice plugs, and the Logic suite is very nice, but I'd like some more to offer a bit of variety and flexibility in mixdown.
It's not just for demo's no... I do a lot of other stuff as well, but I've been selling a few of my tracks, and the quality of the demo is VERY important to me when I'm pushing songs on artists.
Dave
Simply - yes - I think so - or something similar.
I have a few nice plugs, and the Logic suite is very nice, but I'd like some more to offer a bit of variety and flexibility in mixdown.
It's not just for demo's no... I do a lot of other stuff as well, but I've been selling a few of my tracks, and the quality of the demo is VERY important to me when I'm pushing songs on artists.
Dave
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