UA closed its doors in 1985 when Putnam sold the business and its brands, but it rose in 1999 when his sons Bill Junior and James relaunched the company with a new focus on bringing the sound and spirit of vintage analogue technology into modern digital recording systems – and this focused approach has been a serious success. Not only that, but much of the hardware created by UA is also legendary in studio circles, with processors such as the Urei 1176LN and Teletronix LA-2A highly prized to this day. Putnam attained an enviable reputation for innovation, and the company is responsible for many of the standard recording tools we take for granted today: the layout of mixing consoles, per-channel EQ, and send busses were all UA inventions. These were early days for the world of sound recording, but by combining their state-of-the-art studios with bleeding-edge hardware development, founder Bill Putnam Senior created a virtuous circle, where real-world experience could be fed back to the company’s design and manufacturing wing, UA.
LUNA UAD FOR MAC
Luna is available now for Mac as a free download for owners of compatible UA audio interfaces.The Universal Recording Corporation was founded in 1946 with a mission to investigate and develop new recording techniques and equipment. Stay tuned for our next article where we look at the additional Luna Extensions including Neve summing, sample libraries from Spitfire Audio, and of course the Ravel and MiniMoog virtual instruments. So there’s plenty of free content to get you started within Luna, but that’s far from the whole story.
LUNA UAD PATCH
Many of these ‘ rompler ’ virtual instruments have a couple of standout patches and a lot of filler, but we were thoroughly impressed by every patch inside of Shape’s extensive library.
It offers the ability to layer up to four presets together with a per-part effect send levels and easy to access global controls such as amp envelope and filter cutoff. It’s diverse, multi-gigabyte sample library covers everything from pianos to drums, to synths to orchestral ensembles. For a completely free bundled instrument, Shape sounds fantastic. One of our biggest Luna surprises was the inclusion of the ‘Shape’ virtual instrument, one of three Luna Extensions instruments announced at launch. If you own the Studer A800 UAD plugin, you automatically get the Studer Luna Extension at n o extra cost. Oxide is included for free, and the Studer A800 model is available as an additional purchase. Just unfold a channel strip’s tape slot and you’ll find the option to activate one of two Luna Extension Tape emulations. One of the most commonly utilised categories of UAD plugins is the tape emulation and this concept has been built directly into Luna. No longer do you need to leave your DAW to instantiate Unison plugins or set up headphone mixes.
LUNA UAD SOFTWARE
On top of that, much of Console’s (UA’s mixer software for Apollo and Arrow interfaces) functionality has been integrated directly into Luna.
LUNA UAD FOR FREE
We thought we’d take a look at what’s included for free right out of the box, and we will explore the additional content in an upcoming article.Īll Apollo and Arrow interfaces include the Analog Classic plugin bundle and Luna, of course, has well-integrated UAD plugin support. UA offers a way to extend Luna’s functionality via what they call Extensions, and some of these are paid add-ons but several of them are included for free. Universal Audio’s new recording software Luna is here! Apollo interface owners have long been dreaming of a UAD focused recording platform, and now they have one, for free! UA’s Apollo Twin and Arrow interfaces offer a reasonably affordable way into the UAD ecosystem and the fact that they now include Luna, a full-featured recording program, is a huge bonus.