UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In
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UAD Sound City Studios Plug-In
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E. ARRUDA
Sound City gives a slight flavor of Dolby Atmos scenery.
I already owned Ocean Way Studios. There has been progress in some different features included in Sound City. Judging by Sound City's beautiful sound, I think UAD missed the chance to develop a plugin in this category to operate in a Dolby Atmos scenario. Btw, UAD is owing other tools for the Dolby Atmos scenario.
j. jorquera
Complemento Nativo
Me decepciona que no se puede utilizar con el satélite o con el DSP de un interfaz de Universal Audio. Ya no hay diferencia entre waves y UAD
E. LOPES DE OLIVEIRA
Great sound.
Got UAD complete....This plugin is amazing!
p. coultrup
blah plugin. cute ui, but does not sound good
i expect more from UAD i got this in a bundle and its just not good. The compressor in it is unique enough to use, but the room and mic emulations are no bueno. You can get better room tones with just random IR's from reddit. The eq and reverb are also not good. Eq is brittle in the top end, harsh and not musical. The lows lack impact and depth. Mids are just gross. Chamber reverb is 3/5 at best. If this is the way UAD is heading.... well, we'll see. im also a little disappointed in UAD in general right now because of their upgrade pricing / lack of customer loyalty, but oh well.
B. Lovette
Pretty heavy CPU usage.
Pretty heavy CPU usage. Added one instance to a reasonable size session, maybe 18 tracks and two other reverbs. Immediately killed my 2018 Mac mini intel i7. Even at the highest buffer setting. Maybe I’ll try freezing some tracks or getting rid of other plug-ins. Was really looking forward to experimenting with this plug-in. May have to look at a newer M2 now.
J. Keen
An addendum
I'm running this on a 2015 Mac Book Po with 16GB RAM and two instances applied to subgroups. Not a hiccup. Print the desired effects to new tracks, then remove the plugin and move on. Simple DAW workflow working with what you have.
B. jacques
NON APOLLO
Je viens d'acheter ce plugins ! grande déception.
Il ne fonctionne uniquement en vst ou natif. Je reconnais qu'il est de bonne qualité, mais pour un tiers du prix il y a plein de plugins vst beaucoup moins cheret aussi bon..
Pourquoi il n'est pas compatible Apollo? Je pensais que tout les plugins UAD etait par defaut
Apollo compatible. Comment faire pour l’échanger car je n'ai pas d’utilité en natif ?
R. Burg
Satellite, headlines read. For you, I have no need.
I guess I should have bothered to check the details, but it never even crossed my mind that this would be NATIVE ONLY. EVERY SINGLE PLUGIN I have from UA is DSP and SOME are now native. Let's not become Waves and leave no reason to ever pay more than $20-$30 for a plug-in. It sure would be nice to be able to offload a few instances to the Apollo or Satellite.
A. Nine Music project
Cpu usage ....
Make this plug useless. 2 or 3 instances kill your daw for real
N. Rightnour
Sounds great, but CPU use is insane
For anyone wondering why it isn't supported on UAD-2 cards, it's because the cards can't run the plugin — it would probably use up an entire Quad or more. This is just the reverb module, with the extra effects turned off.
B. Thomas
I really love It
It sounds so amazing especially with some of the presets on their own. I hope you come out with some real time apollo versions of some of these things because that's why I bought my Apollo X8P. But other than that, it's definitely worth it. And for other readers reading this, always remember to be patient. UAD puts in a lot of work into what they do and they try their best to satisfy all of us. Thank You UAD
A. Norris
Virtual Room Mic's - Nailed
I've owned the Ocean Way Studios plug-in for years and it has certainly been an incredible tool for sessions I inherit without good room mic's for drum recording. To have yet another space available with the Sound City emulation is fantastic. Whilst I'm not about to state that a lack of room mic's is no longer an issue, both of these tools provide an excellent solution when drums and other instruments require an ambient addition to close mic' configurations.
r. walburn
not getting it
first of all,i am 100% a fan of UA ,and possibly do not understand the benefit of turning on the full plugin, which involves turning on the mic setup,and dealing with a boxy overbearing room sound. using it in its simplest form, added detail that was extremely desirable, but beyond that,im guessing I missed the point.i have strived for the cleanest pure sound, and UA has allowed that to happen,thru luna,and magnificent plugins. 100% fan. using this plugin turned up slightly without the microphones on vocal's worth what I paid for it, except it forces me to upgrade my 2015 Mac,because this thing loves eating cpu.5 stars for the small part I use.
M. Schisler
Great sounding rooms
I'm a big fan of virtual rooms in general in how they can make a dry recording sound like it was recorded in an actual room. And imo, these are among the best sounding virtual rooms out there. Of course they all have their own flavor and these get a lot of use. These also have excellent flexibility with the full chain and reverb only modes.
M. Orr
Why did I spend all this money on my UA interface and purchased plugins?
First things first. If Dave Grohl took the console out of Sound City, how am I able to use Sound City’s console? Did that emulation work happen in a different location?
With native only support. UA is alienating its best customers, apparently for the sole purpose of being able to tap into the subscription as a service model. I am starting to wonder if my $5k+ investment in UA was a wise move. Three stars until ARM compatibility.
P. Vesic
More plugin like this
I like it, better than all the plugin I have who do the same (like Fame reverb etc...) more complete...
Ocean Way in Native will be great with the same option (EQ, dynamics, Chamber etc...)
And my dream is the possibility to select the console: SSL, Neve, API for example
Really great work here so thank you so much UAD for this plugin and for the fantastic black Friday (2 plugin for 99 USD)
UAD is definitely the best for me
P. Vesic
More plugin like this
I like it, better than all the plugin I have who do the same (like Fame reverb etc...) more complete...
Ocean Way in Native will be great with the same option (EQ, dynamics, Chamber etc...)
And my dream is the possibility to select the console: SSL, Neve, API for example
Really great work here so thank you so much UAD for this plugin and for the fantastic black Friday (2 plugin for 99 USD)
UAD is definitely the best for me
C. Jaeggi
Look The Other Way!
This is mine, you can't have one, I own the Ocean Way Sturio too. I want all the things! LOL
S. Waterman
Native only … no ARM!
Just mentioning for all users who are working with the Ocean Way Plugin and are maybe looking for some extra rooms.
I was very disappointed to realize that this so far really interesting Plugin is not able to run in ARM - Mode or as a recording effect. Why? This possibilities are the reason we love the UA ecosytem, right?
I was very pleased when UA started Spark and made many of the plugins available for using with other DAWs, but with „Only Native“ it’s going the complete wrong way!
D. Calvin
Awesome, but!
I would, sound wise, give 5 stars, It’s an awesome plugin, the Sound of it is amazing and I love all of the functions, but!
The CPU Usage/performance must be updated,
I understand it’s the first official version, so I’ll guess there will be an update at some point.
It would have been awesome if the initial version had a better performance. Less CPU usage. It’s really heavy on the CPU.
Anyway, it’s an awesome plugin, I’m looking forward to a performance update!
Good Job