I came, I saw and I prevented major wastes of time and money. If you want to know why I'm not joining the Cult of Price Preceding Problems, here is an explanation from an older student who go cold feet. I like the people here but in some cases I'm not going to share your problems, you made your bed.
1. The card. Physically the hardware walks, talks and acts as a cheap video card, yet sells for $400.00 retail.
2. It runs hot - yet for $400 there's not even an inexpensive fan included like the cheapest of video cards.
3. It runs on like 4 configurations of computers, and if you have an otherwise good motherboard/RAM/Processor/audio interface, you still might be screwed because the UAD(s) won't work.
4. For being described as a supercomputer chip, most UAD-lovers seem to need more than one to make any kind of sense on one.
5. Even the beloved Fairchild has owners asking why there isn't simpler documentation to get it to work for them.
6. With a suggested price of $79.00 to $500 per plugin, my neighbor scored a BOSS CE-1 Plug-In for $50 at a pawn shop. Works fine. It's REAL. Don't have 15 instances at the same time? Then put 15 tracks through the bus.
7. Some plugins like Nigel and RealVerb are Universally despised, no pun intended. They are worse than software that costs less.
8. When a paid owner says something isn't quite right, they get the common answer that \"in the old days, people said the same thing\", and look what happened to Universal between the 50's and like, 60s. Bull. Universal analog equipment sounded good and didn't cause all kinds of technical malfunctions.
9. When freeware plugins described in this forum are as appreciated as the UA plugins, SIR (I'm not going back to look them up but you can find them) and others, and again, usually $150 per plug? Uhm...
10. The plugin prices are flat out ridiculous. I can see the $150 for the Fairchild, it's a great value if it was modeled right, but the rest of the prices are a whole lot of corporate and a whole little consumer.
I think the problem is the overhyped name associated with a crappy overall product. People who can't get a good sound to begin with due to talent malnourishment think that 4 UADs are going to solve the problem. After all, name brands don't turn their backs on you do they?
In conclusion I hope you all have a good time with your money spent and time killed. Let me know when the UAD card goes for $50 with fan, the plugins are priced at $50 as well and they don't screw up your computer, when all other PCI cards on Planet Earth seem to work fine.
Joey
1. The card. Physically the hardware walks, talks and acts as a cheap video card, yet sells for $400.00 retail.
2. It runs hot - yet for $400 there's not even an inexpensive fan included like the cheapest of video cards.
3. It runs on like 4 configurations of computers, and if you have an otherwise good motherboard/RAM/Processor/audio interface, you still might be screwed because the UAD(s) won't work.
4. For being described as a supercomputer chip, most UAD-lovers seem to need more than one to make any kind of sense on one.
5. Even the beloved Fairchild has owners asking why there isn't simpler documentation to get it to work for them.
6. With a suggested price of $79.00 to $500 per plugin, my neighbor scored a BOSS CE-1 Plug-In for $50 at a pawn shop. Works fine. It's REAL. Don't have 15 instances at the same time? Then put 15 tracks through the bus.
7. Some plugins like Nigel and RealVerb are Universally despised, no pun intended. They are worse than software that costs less.
8. When a paid owner says something isn't quite right, they get the common answer that \"in the old days, people said the same thing\", and look what happened to Universal between the 50's and like, 60s. Bull. Universal analog equipment sounded good and didn't cause all kinds of technical malfunctions.
9. When freeware plugins described in this forum are as appreciated as the UA plugins, SIR (I'm not going back to look them up but you can find them) and others, and again, usually $150 per plug? Uhm...
10. The plugin prices are flat out ridiculous. I can see the $150 for the Fairchild, it's a great value if it was modeled right, but the rest of the prices are a whole lot of corporate and a whole little consumer.
I think the problem is the overhyped name associated with a crappy overall product. People who can't get a good sound to begin with due to talent malnourishment think that 4 UADs are going to solve the problem. After all, name brands don't turn their backs on you do they?
In conclusion I hope you all have a good time with your money spent and time killed. Let me know when the UAD card goes for $50 with fan, the plugins are priced at $50 as well and they don't screw up your computer, when all other PCI cards on Planet Earth seem to work fine.
Joey
