UA UNVEILS REVOLUTIONARY NEW UAD-2 PCIE DSP ACCELERATOR CARDS & COMPLETELY REVAMPED V5.0 POWERED PLUG-IN SOFTWARE

Media Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Marsha Vdovin
marsha@uaudio.com

UA Hq, Scotts Valley, California-29th August 2008, Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and DSP software plug-ins for digital audio workstations, today announced the UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins & PCIe DSP Accelerator Card for DAWs. The UAD-2 is the successor to the revolutionary, award-winning UAD-1 Powered Plug-Ins & DSP Card Platform. UAD-2 offers scalable DSP power via 3 different types of cards (Solo, DUO or Quad) which can be mixed or matched in any combination up to 4 cards. Each UAD-2 is powered by the same Analog Devices® 21369 SHARC® floating-point DSP in single and multi-chip configurations. UAD-2 offers 2.5X (Solo), 5x (DUO) and 10X (Quad) the power of UAD-1. The UAD-2 is designed and manufactured in the USA, is now shipping and immediately available at UA dealers worldwide in 9 different hardware/software bundles ranging in street price from US$499 (UAD-2 SOLO) to US$1999 (UAD-2 Nevana 128).

KEY FEATURES:

• 2.5X (Solo), 5X (DUO), 10X (Quad) the power of UAD-1 on a single PCI Express card
• VST and AU support, cross platform Mac OS X Leopard/Tiger, Win XP/Vista
(NOTE: RTAS support to follow in a future 5.x release)
• Easily Expandable DSP - Use up to 4 UAD-1 & 4 UAD-2 cards in one system
• LiveTrack