Bummm ! What an anouncement

[Deleted-2746]

http://www.uaudio.com/

ok,
on the +side: definetly the price
on the -side: same power as before.....

 

[The Beatsmith]

How much is it man?

Can't believe it's the same freakin 10 year old dsp chip, when duende and the focusrite is giving you 32 mono channels of any plug.

Sigh... they got me by the balls though. As underpowered as it is, i still want one.

If i got one and they brought out a new more powerful version (ie if this is a stopgap card), i'd be pretty pissed off..

 

[Radia]

But.... can you mix and match PCI and PCI-e?

 

[secretworld]

from the UA website:

Use any combination of cards (PCI or PCIe)

 

[lordnielson]

It's a major fukkin disappointment and I think they need to be told. It's like equipping a modern day army with clubs.

Every single competitor they have is miles ahead on technology already and they come up with this ?!!

It's tremendous how they can make such fine plugins for a loyal crowd, yet show no loyalty towards their customers' future technological needs. They've clearly taken the very easiest (most profitable) way out.

Why fuck with something when it ain't broke. Keep the card underpowered and sell more (never mind the upcoming neve plug that's gonna require half a nuclear plant to run).

I officially stand appalled, dismayed, etc.

 

[Ninja]

I don't want to be the one who said I told you so, but I don't understand why this is such a suprise to everyone.

UA does not have the expertise to design a new UAD chip and if they were to introduce one they would have to outsource it which would make a huge impact on their total plus not mentioning redesigning all the plugins.

I don't see this happening for years to come. More likely UA will somewhere down the road hopefuly do a card with 4 uad-1 chips on it.

Be thankful they found a way to introudce a PCIe card.

 

[xist2005]

One word: disappointment

 

[StefanAjax]

A bit turned off

I was waiting for the PCIe version before starting with the whole UAD business. But after this I am not so sure. Are you certain they haven´t increased the card´s power? Where does it say it is the same? Maybe UAD should have paid greater attention to the words at the end of their PCIe video: \"Don´t just survive, evolve!\"

 

[xist2005]

Here you can find everything you need (I think its contents should be a sticky):
http://uaudio.com/products/digital/expertpak/FAQ.html

 

[Tony Ostinato]

Unless something slipped past me the uad-1 still uses the newest dsp chip, the competitors metioned in this thread are using the older dsps's, just lots of them.

feel free to nail me with elightening specs.

You can tell the pci is using one of the dsp chips by the picture, hence same power.

it is something of note that ua was never able to get the larger uad-1 plugins like fairchild to work in the segmented architecture of tdm and have now totally discontinued tdm.

i'm still hopeful for some big powerful firewire based rackmount, one that could work as a standalone fx box as well.

 

[xist2005]

Unless something slipped past me the uad-1 still uses the newest dsp chip

Well, if you call new something that's 6 years old...

i'm still hopeful for some big powerful firewire based rackmount, one that could work as a standalone fx box as well.

Well, at this point I really doubt they have the knowledge and resources to do that. It's not their business...

 

[lordward]

Equally dissapointed here, Oh well.

At least I'm glad I waited and now I know I will definitely be giving out my money for the SSL Duende and not for future UAD stuff, it's just too dated now - even if the plugins do sound great it's just not enough anymore.

Lordy out....

 

[Eric Dahlberg]

They've clearly taken the very easiest (most profitable) way out.

Easiest & quickest way, yes, but I don't see how this correlates to being the \"most profitable\" way out, especially if they lose customers over it. I see it as a way to get customers a fast solution so people don't stop buying cards out of sheer lack of slots.

Well, at this point I really doubt they have the knowledge and resources to do that. It's not their business...

This could be true, unfortunately. UA will probably never be on the level of Motorola & Analog Devices, after all (not to knock UA, those are MASSIVE companies!).

 

[S4410]

It looks like UA is not ready for the next BIG step but it seems
like an honest compromise to me.

 

[Cabbage]

It seems to me that this is only going to make the DSP power problem worse, since the number of slots is going to be the limiting factor for PCIe. Releasing this card only solves compatibility issues with newer mobos, nothing else.

Well, I will be on my PCI machine for a while. Right now it seems nothing interesting is going to happen this year, so I might as well go ahead and buy another PCI card and enjoy it for a year or so.

Petter

 

[Dragon_Huang]

Personally, I am not interesting in this PCI-e upgrade...

That's not really help for my current system setup..

SAME POWER DSP??? after long long time waiting ...

This is very disappointment.

 

[xist2005]

I think Duende will be this (and next) year's best-seller in this area, if it works as promised without issues.

 

[A Gruesome Discovery]

http://www.uaudio.com/

ok,
on the +side: definetly the price
on the -side: same power as before.....

But... the prices are exactly the same as the comperable PCI versions (Express/Project and Expert/Ultra). Considering that, for all intents and purposes, they're the same card, that's not a plus... in fact, it could be a minus. This is the hardware equivalent of a bugfix, while we were expecting a new product.

 

[Dan Duskin]

Pointless...

UA is digging their own grave at this point.

Everything is going exteral!!!

I can't put a PCIe card in a laptop.
My desktop has no PCIe slots.
Magma makes no PCIe chassis.
Mobo's have less slots every year.

Unless they do Firewire, UAD is DEAD!

 

[podel]

The disappointment of a millenium... I couldn't believe my eyes when I read about the new card. The same DSP power?!? UA are walking a very thin line here.