New UAD Hardware on Frankfurt Messe

[remdeck]

UAD is showing the New UAD on the Musikmesse in Frankfurt!!
Can't wait till 29march-1april

Going there

remdeck

 

[baronluigi]

any details, or more of the same old cock-tease routine.


(Like Space Echo, Neve, and now this..............)



Man I wish they'd freakin just deliver something...............

 

[Felix]

UAD is showing the New UAD on the Musikmesse in Frankfurt!!
Can't wait till 29march-1april

Going there

remdeck

HA!
uppercut!!!

this one trew me down my chair!!!

 

[The Beatsmith]

who said?

 

[polygen]

UAD is showing the New UAD on the Musikmesse in Frankfurt!!
Can't wait till 29march-1april

Going there

remdeck

....notice anything?

 

[remdeck]

Captain Caveman wrote:

Look here:

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=59259

Wow!!

 

[toader2]

hmm... I hope they offer an \"upgrade\" from the UAD-1 cards.

 

[Jacky14]

Here's what you'll find after this link :

So we are all waiting for Universal Audio to announce the UAD card for PCIe (possibly UAD-2??) After contacting them about my dissapointment and the lack of any sign of UAD for my new Quad, i have been advised to wait for an announcement at.....

MUSIKMESSE FRANKFURT
29th March - 1st April 2006
Universal Audio
Hall: 5.1 Walkway: A Stand: 50

6 Weeks to go - and I have a sneaky feeling this is when its going to happen.

Better late than never.

Untill 1st april, this thread is gonna grow very fast I guess... without any usefull info in it! (since we do not have any confirmation, and UA will certainly not give any)

 

[remdeck]

As Jacky14 wrote:

Untill 1st april, this thread is gonna grow very fast I guess... without any usefull info in it! (since we do not have any confirmation, and UA will certainly not give any)

TOPIC CLOSED

 

[Dan Duskin]

Check this out!

Rumor has it that the new UAD will be based on an upcoming 256bit DSP processor that is code-named \"Presto\". This DSP will run at 4GHz and will be highly optimized for floating point math. This new UAD will have 4 \"Presto\" DSP's and 128MB of memory.

A spokes person for UA said the new UAD should be able to run approximately 24 instances of the upcoming Roland Space Echo plugin. He went on to say that they decided to steer clear of PCI and Firewire, \"Those protocols aren't well suited for the new UAD, instead we decided to use photon beams. We'll be launching 200 thousand of the new UAD units into orbit June 2006, and our patent pending photon beam relay will sync-lock to an available unit for you to use in real-time. Beam Me Up!\" Come now guys... you know you believed it for just a second didn't you.

This is an exciting time to be a UA customer!

 

[NuSkoolTone]

If it's true, I wonder how they will handle licensing between old and new cards?

That would suck if the new cards are treated as a completely different product and will only allow plug-ins licensed for THAT particular card and vice-versa. That oculd get VERY expensive license wise.

I also hope it's priced at a \"replacement\" price, and not like ProCo or I'll be out of the game.

 

[Ninja]

I could be wrong (it has happened before), but I sincerely doubt UA will release a new dsp-card. More likely they will announce a plan at frankfurt messe; I guess something like a external firewire based shell for the uad-1 cards would not be too far fetched.

My guess is that Universal Audio is in abit of a pickle in terms of their uad-1 card... Releasing a new uad-2 card would probably mean a complete recode of their whole product line which could take forever to acomplish.

I'm sure they have a plan though. I'm just not sure everyone will be very excited once it's made public.

Personally I wouldn't mind using my uad-1 cards a couple of more years (and I've had mine since 2001).

 

[electro77]

I could be wrong (it has happened before), but I sincerely doubt UA will release a new dsp-card. More likely they will announce a plan at frankfurt messe; I guess something like a external firewire based shell for the uad-1 cards would not be too far fetched.

My guess is that Universal Audio is in abit of a pickle in terms of their uad-1 card... Releasing a new uad-2 card would probably mean a complete recode of their whole product line which could take forever to acomplish.

I always thought UAD plugs were developed on PC then ported to the UAD-1 after.

 

[.mr chris]

I always thought UAD plugs were developed on PC then ported to the UAD-1 after.

:?: :?: :?:

have you ever programmed in assembler/ machine code???

 

[Mark Edmonds]

I always assumed it was some form of assembler cross-compiler for the DSP side with a (probably) C++ wrapper for the native section. Either way, I wouldn't think porting to pure native would be very straight forward - the DSP chip might have a pretty esoteric instruction set that may not translate directly. Anyway, who knows...

Mark

 

[Suntower]

have you ever programmed in assembler/ machine code???

Sure. Did it for 15 years. And this ain't the bad old days. There are all manner of tools for porting stuff from one platform to another. I think the main issues are not technical, but rather -business-.
1. What are our CoG for all the chips and fab?
2. How many of these can we sell?
3. How do we handle backward compatibility?
4. How do we price things so that we get the greatest number of us idi-- (er... devoted customers :mrgreen: ) to move to the new platform and thus get even more revenue without too much bitchen?

I'm fascinated from a planning standpoint---it's a big gamble for them, no matter how ya slice it. There are so many different needs/wants/desires (firewire, PCI, PCIe, expansion chassis, etc..) it probably ain't a simple decision.

---JC

 

[Giles117 DP]

4. How do we price things so that we get the greatest number of us idi-- (er... devoted customers :mrgreen: ) to move to the new platform and thus get even more revenue without too much bitchen?
\\

Love it. LOL. That had me tickled.

PCI e for me.....

 

[jcat]

I could be wrong (it has happened before), but I sincerely doubt UA will release a new dsp-card. More likely they will announce a plan at frankfurt messe; I guess something like a external firewire based shell for the uad-1 cards would not be too far fetched.

My guess is that Universal Audio is in abit of a pickle in terms of their uad-1 card... Releasing a new uad-2 card would probably mean a complete recode of their whole product line which could take forever to acomplish.

I always thought UAD plugs were developed on PC then ported to the UAD-1 after.

The coding will be done on a PC (due to lack of interface on the UAD-1 :mrgreen: ), but whether or not they have a UAD-1 emulator to test it on I'm not sure. It would be quite time consuming to make, especially when they can just plug in a development version the card and test!

Anyway, who knows what happens behind the closed doors of UA, all we do know is that they have ported plugins to the Motorola platform, as used by PT and Powercore. Plus Joe Bryant has motioned that they are always keeping and eye out for possible new platforms and solutions.




Cheers,

jcat

 

[sj_digriz]

I guess something like a external firewire based shell for the uad-1 cards would not be too far fetched.

One thing you can gather from the occassional technical discussion posts by the UA folks is that Firewire and/or Network based interfaces are not an option they are likely to pursue any time soon. The bandwidth vs latency/overhead is just not as attractive as it is for PCIe(or whatever flavor of PCI(x)).

But, just like you said...I've been wrong before too.

 

[Dan Duskin]

Didn't UA say they would like to go firewire in a brief statement about a year ago ? (maybe a year and a half)