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API Vision Channel Strip Collection
API Vision Channel Strip Collection
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API Vision Channel Strip Collection

Explore the iconic color of API’s flagship analog console.

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  • Track and mix through a stunning emulation of API’s flagship analog console channel
  • Sculpt with expanded 10-band graphic EQ module and beloved 550L parametric EQs
  • Punch up signals through the 212L preamp with API’s famed 2520 op-amp and custom transformers
  • Reshape ambience and create dynamic effects with the 235L Gate/Expander
  • Tame transients and craft bold textures with API’s legendary 225L compression circuit
  • Mix with artist presets from Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Morrissey), Ann Mincieli (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey), David Isaac (Marcus Miller, Eric Clapton) & more

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

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Explore the Iconic Color of API’s Flagship Console

From Stevie Wonder's Innervisions to Radiohead's In Rainbows, API desks have shaped hit albums for over 50 years. UA's API Vision Channel Strip plug-in artfully captures API's flagship analog console, giving you classic API tone with switchable EQ modules, expertly modeled output section, plus API’s iconic compression, gating, and filter modules.

Sculpt with Parametric and Graphic EQs

The API Vision Channel Strip Collection lets you choose between the revered 550L 4-band parametric EQ and API's famous 560L series 10-band graphic EQ, so you can quickly shape guitars, add aggression to drums, and push vocals forward with analog punch.

Shape Dynamics with the 225L Compressor

From single tracks to your entire mix, the 225L thrives on any instrument in any genre. And with selectable “New” and “Old” functions, you can get two delicious brands of compression from mild to severe.

Get Creative with API Gate/Expander and Filters

The ultra-fast 235L Noise Gate/Expander lets you easily shape ambience and attack on individual sources like kick drums or bass synth, or clamp down on noisy drum kit rattles and gnarly guitar amp noise. Plus, you can expertly craft your source material while preserving its original tone with Hi and Lo pass filters.

Add Instant Magic with the 212L Preamp with Unison

The API Vision Channel Strip Collection gets even better when you use an Apollo interface. With Unison mic preamp technology, you get all the crucial impedance characteristics and gain stage “sweet spots” of API's iconic 212L preamp. Plus, you get the same features found in API's flagship Vision Console with a Mic/Line switch, dedicated cut filter, and ‑6 dB line pad.

What They Say

I’m using the API Vision Console Emulation across all my channels in LUNA and it sounds phenomenal. The dynamics section is amazing, and the ability to toggle between the 550 and 560 EQs is so good!

Butch Walker

Green Day, Weezer, Taylor Swift

The API Vision is a great hybrid of that vintage API sound, plus all the air and quick transient response you want in a modern console. It captures that unique API flavor and tone, plus dynamics, in a single plug‑in.

Joe Chiccarelli

Jason Mraz, Beck, The Strokes, Morrissey

The API Summing Extension for LUNA really brings your mix forward, giving you that tight and punchy bottom end that we’re all looking for.

Jeff Balding

Taylor Swift, The Eagles, Florida Georgia Line

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Reviews

4.6
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
Based on 1,328 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 1.1k Total 4 star reviews: 98 Total 3 star reviews: 19 Total 2 star reviews: 7 Total 1 star reviews: 109
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  • JB
    James B.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    13 hours ago
    API Channel Strip

    Great strip for dialing in sounds on drums and bass so far.

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  • CG
    Christophe G.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    I love my API

    I already had the Neve and SSL plugins, and I wanted to complete my collection of classic preamp and EQ emulations.

    Man, this API plugin really shines. I use the real analog API module when recording drums and percussion, and I'm amazed at how accurately the plugin captures the same tone, punch, and dynamic response.

    I absolutely love it. It's now my go-to on almost every percussion recording, and it makes a huge difference.

    Thank you, UAD, for such an amazing product. You’ve made it possible for my mobile setup away from the studio to sound as good as working with the real hardware

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  • JM
    James m.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Very Clean

    Very Clean, lacks a little warmth of the legacy version but super effective

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  • VG
    Vladimir G.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    API vision

    A good device

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  • AC
    August C.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Love the plug-in

    Unfortunately, due to my error, I bought it a second time. For sure its my fault, but you shouldn't be able to pay for the same thing twice. That's the second time that's happened to me (cuz I'm a idiot). A box should come up that says dude you already have that. Thanks for listening

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No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware is required.
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We provide three activations per license. We support activation on your computer or on an iLok USB key.
For every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both upon purchase, or the option to get it through an upgrade.
Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.
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