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The UAD-2 SOLO DSP Accelerator Card gives producers and engineers a simple, powerful entry point into the award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform on Mac or PC. This single-processor PCIe card provides access to the world’s most authentic analog hardware emulations and audio processing plug-ins — including licensed emulations from Neve, Roland, BOSS, Empirical Labs, EMT, Fairchild, Harrison, Helios, Little Labs, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix and more.
Developed by the industry’s finest engineering team, and backed by frequent new software and plug-in releases, the UAD-2 is the platform of choice for many of the world's top musicians, producers and engineers.
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From mixonline.com - Oct-01-2008
Following the worldwide success of its award-winning UAD-1, Universal Audio offers the second-generation UAD-2 card and Version 5 software. Three years in development, the UAD-2 offers more speed, options and power at a price within the grasp of any studio owner. At the same time, Universal Audio will continue to support and develop new plug-ins for the UAD-1 as well as release new plug-ins or virtual instruments specifically for the UAD-2. Compatibility between sessions using plug-ins running on the UAD-1 and other sessions running the new UAD-2 card is also assured.
From emusician.com - Apr-01-2009
For those of us who closely follow Universal Audio's UAD updates, an email about a new plug-in or a new set of features can light up our in-box like a Christmas tree. When I got the email about the introduction of the UAD-2 card, which boasts 2.5 to 10 times the power of a single UAD-1 card, depending on your configuration, it was more like fireworks.
The UAD-2 is a PCIe card with one, two, or four SHARC processor chips attached (covering the Solo, Duo, or Quad versions, respectively), for use in Mac and PC desktop computers.
From musicradar.com - Sep-30-2008
The UAD-2 is, as its name suggests, the successor to the UAD-1, and puts considerably more lead in its pencil.
Three cards are available: Solo, Duo and Quad. The Solo card boasts performance at 2.5 times the level of the original, the Duo at five times and the Quad at a whopping ten times.
This hardware shift coincides with Universal Audio's move to Version 5 of its software, so installing the new card means a radical overhaul to any existing system. One cautionary note here – UAD-2 is not currently RTAS-compatible with Version 5 of the software.
From audioprointernational.com - Jan-22-2009
The UAD-2 Nevana 182 card was designed to bring the classic Neve sound to the digital domain. Wes Maebe reports on Universal Audio’s latest mind boggling card...
When Audio Pro International asked me to review the new UAD-2 from Universal Audio, I accepted with alacrity. I was already a fan of the UAD-1 card, having had the opportunity to use it when mixing and mastering the Juggernaut album for Zero Cipher, an alternative metal band from Farnham in Surrey.