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Transform your DAW into a vintage analog paradise.

Build your dream studio with 34 world-class UAD effects and instruments — the same gear used by many of the biggest mixers and engineers in the world — no UA hardware required.

Whether it's a legendary channel strip from Avalon, an iconic Studer tape machine, classic compression from Fairchild and Empirical Labs, or lush reverb from Lexicon — $5,900+ in value if purchased separately — UAD Studio Edition gives you the gear and sounds used by hit-making professionals every day.

No Hardware Required

No Hardware Required

UAD Studio Edition plug-ins run natively on Mac or PC and work with any compatible DAW including Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, LUNA, and more.

Included Versions

UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

Apollo Realtime & UAD‑2
Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD‑2 hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Get a professional analog studio packed with legendary channel strips, compressors, EQs, tape machines, effects, and instruments — right in your DAW
  • Get perfect vocals with hit-making solid-state and tube preamps
  • Explore iconic compressors on drums, guitars, vocals, and synths
  • Discover the rich sound of magnetic tape on all of your sources
  • Add ambience and space on vocals and instruments with hit-making plate and digital reverb, tape echo, rotary speaker, and more
  • Stay inspired with in‑the‑box grand piano, electric piano, and organ, indistinguishable from the real thing

Verve Analog Machines Essentials

Give your recordings the colorful analog saturation and effects heard on countless hip-hop, lo-fi, electronic, rock, and experimental tracks. Designed for the modern musician, beatmaker, and producer — Verve Analog Machines Essentials puts four playful vintage sounds right in your DAW.

Avalon VT-737 Tube Channel Strip

Get consistently polished results full of radio-ready gloss and detail with Avalon's flagship VT-737 channel strip —the best-selling standalone channel strip ever made — and the dominant player in chart-topping pop, hip-hop, and R&B productions.

dbx 160 Compressor/Limiter

Whether you’re using it on synths, bass guitar, or a drum bus, the dbx 160 plug-in gives you the original hardware’s grabby, low-end glue and old-school character — a must-have for any engineer’s compressor toolkit.

Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor

Add the versatile, super-fast compressor that's the choice for modern producers looking to add creative colors to drums, vocals, and guitars.

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Get the same silky, warm compression heard on hundreds of hit records from The Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics with the most accurate emulations ever made of these rare tube limiters.*

Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb

Add the famously lush ambience that defined the sound of an entire era with a bit-for-bit emulation of the classic '80s studio hardware that remains one of the most popular digital reverb units of all time.

Manley Tube Preamp

Add instant life to vocals and bass, punch up acoustic guitars and drums, or push synths forward with the authentic sound of Manley tube hardware.

Studer A800 Tape Recorder

Add warmth, presence, cohesion, and low-end punch that only genuine tape can provide with the proven hit-making sound of a genuine Studer tape machine.

Teletronix LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler

Famous for pushing sounds right to the front of your speakers with a unique, aggressive character, get all the tone and dynamics control of this highly-coveted hardware — perfect for vocals, acoustic guitar, drums, and more.

UA 175B & 176 Tube Compressor Collection

Based on a pair of UA's 1960s golden units, this Collection gives your vocals, drums, and synths all the ultra-musical harmonics and colorful saturation of the original ultra-rare hardware.

Electra 88 Vintage Keyboard Studio

Get the album-ready sound of a 1974 Rhodes Eighty Eight Suitcase Mark 1 electric piano,* along with a fully stocked "vintage" studio of pro production tools — for in‑the‑box tones nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.

Moog Minimoog

Add the fat, musically expressive sounds of the most iconic synthesizer ever made — from Kraftwerk to Parliament-Funkadelic, Yes to Dr. Dre — with our industry‑leading expertise in circuit modeling, synthesis, and signal processing.**

Opal Morphing Synthesizer

An epic-sounding flagship synth that's perfect for producers, sound designers, and musicians, Opal is our analog-meets-wavetable synth that gives you huge-sounding morphing filters and powerful UA effects, for album-ready sounds, no matter how deep you explore.

Ravel Grand Piano

Perfect for modern music productions from pop to rock, R&B to hip‑hop, get album-ready sonics and inspiring playability with our breathtaking emulation of a Steinway Model B grand piano* that goes far beyond other piano plug-ins and sample libraries with its unprecedented realism.

Waterfall B3 Organ

Explore the world's most thorough emulation of the classic Hammond B3 organ and its companion Leslie 147 rotary speaker cabinet,* giving your music the same rich tone and three‑dimensional sound heard on decades of legendary albums.

Waterfall Rotary Speaker

Immerse yourself in the jaw-dropping sounds of the classic Leslie 147 rotary speaker cabinet,* and envelope your guitars, vocals, keyboards, and more in chewy, three-dimensional modulation effects — far beyond chorus and flange — for classic textures heard on decades of legendary albums.

1176 Classic Limiter Collection

Give character and punch to vocals, guitars, bass, drums, and anything else with three distinct versions of this easy‑to‑use limiter, used on more records than any compressor ever made.

Studio D Chorus

An exacting emulation of a late-'70s Roland Dimension D,* add the same "secret sauce" analog widening effects used by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian Eno, M83, and more, for stunning analog modulation textures — with the push of a button.**

Brigade Chorus

Flatter your guitars, vocals, and synths with the luxuriant analog modulation effects of a vintage BOSS CE‑1 Chorus Ensemble* and enjoy three-dimensional movement and shimmer.

PolyMAX Synth

Our vintage-inspired synth gives producers, sound designers, and musicians fat analog tones from the golden age of polysynthesis with warm, analog-modeled oscillators and filters, professional UA effects, and curated presets that easily fit into any genre — for album‑ready sounds instantly.

Century Tube Channel Strip

Enhance your vocals, guitars, synths, and more with a vintage-style tube mic preamp, simple three-band EQ, and optical compressor designed to give you everything you need to capture "first take" magic.

Pultec Passive EQ Collection

Featuring three astonishingly accurate Pultec EQs that are indistinguishable from the original analog hardware, get the same silky curves used by the engineers of John Mayer, Daft Punk, and Mariah Carey, on your vocals, drums, keys and more.*

Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveler Collection

Get smooth, radio-ready vocals, guitars, and bass with three highly sought-after versions of the most famous optical tube compressor ever made — and the go-to for professional mixers worldwide.

Galaxy Tape Echo

Add subtle tape delay and colorful cacophony to drums, vocals, guitars, and synths with the definitive emulation of an iconic analog contraption used by everyone from Pink Floyd and David Bowie, to King Tubby, Scientist, and Lee “Scratch” Perry.*

Pure Plate Reverb

Experience UA's revolutionary plate reverb emulation in a simple, easy-to-use package — with all of the essential features. Revel in the sonic and mechanical nuances of the steel plate, transducers, and dampers, and give your vocals, guitars, strings, and synths lush, satisfying ambience.

Oxide Tape Recorder

Based on our award-winning Ampex and Studer tape machine emulations, Oxide Tape Recorder gives you the warmth, presence, and vibe of professional analog tape, with only the essential controls, so you can get sounds faster and make everything "sound like a record."

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FAQ

Is Universal Audio hardware required to use these plug-ins?

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware required.

Can I try native UAD plug-ins before I buy?

Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins ›

If I purchase a UAD plug-in, do I get a license for native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions?

Yes, for every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both.

I own an Apollo or UAD-2 hardware, is this for me?

Yes, absolutely, our new bundles provide tremendous value on some of our most popular collections of plug-ins, and native versions are included for the best of both worlds. Native UAD plug-ins also allow you to record and mix on-the-go without attaching UAD hardware.

*All trademarks are property of their respective owners, and used only to represent the instruments modeled as part of UAD plug-ins.

**Use of artist names does not constitute official endorsement of UAD software.

Customer Reviews

UAD Studio Edition

Overall Rating

4.8/5
(12450)

J. Rojas

February 11, 2025

Fairchild 670 Collection.

This is THE Royal Variable Mu King. The tone this compressor delivers is incredible, it gives exceptional body in the low end and those highs come to the fore, it's great for sustained elements like vocals, bass, but don't be fooled, drums sound amazing, to the point where you can crush them and they still sound amazing. Jazz loves this compressor as much as I love UA. Thanks for this wonderful plugin. ❤️

J. Levicek

February 11, 2025

A really great way to warm up your mix!

Highly recommend. Works great for acoustic jazz.

E. Cage

February 11, 2025

Americana Soul

Americana Soul for acoustic guitars as well. Amazing plugin

Highly Recommended . Thank you Universal Audio for giving us the soul vibe

J. Lewis

February 11, 2025

I had no idea..?

A friend of mine once wrote, 'I can get any type of compression I want from a Distressor, it's the only copressor I use.' That was 5 years ago and it still didn't tempt me to buy it because the name still put me off, I don't want a compressor that distorts and magles sound, I love my LA2A, V76U73 and Fairchild emulations. The other day though, I bought the Distressor and I am very impressed at how smooth sounding it can be and how, like a 1176, it can add a kind of insistence to vocals. Smooth and insistent, it's a winning combination for me, especially as the vocal doesn't seem to be coloured either. I need to try the Distressor on other sounds, so I admit, this is an early review, but don't let the name put you off, this can be a lovely transparent compressor.

R. Vosbury

February 10, 2025

Faithful.

Great soundin B. The presets are excellent starting points.

E. Idowu

February 9, 2025

SIMPLE GREAT PURE PLATE REVERB

I actually had to rate it 5 star but some mistaken despite my comments or my review on it, it's still a simple great reverb I ever seen, I love the Pure Plate Reverb for its warm vintage tone, it's a simple Reverb and easy to use, it blends easily with vocals and unique on Drums too, but one thing is of IAD can make it allow automation it would be very nice, Am looking forward to the update version.

E. Idowu

February 6, 2025

Ezekiel TSMan

I love the Pure Plate Reverb for its warm vintage tone, it's a simple Reverb and easy to use, it blends easily with vocals and unique on Drums too, but one thing is of IAD can make it allow automation it would be very nice, Am looking forward to the update version.

B. Raj

February 5, 2025

Flagship indeed

To my ears, this is one of the very few soft synths that sound real and alive with a tangible presence. I welcome its feature limitations (when compared to other wavetable-style plugins) because it feels like it was intentionally designed as a coherent instrument with personality and tons of sweet spots, rather than a competition entry for most bells and whistles. The effects and the presets deserve extra mention. I hope it will support MPE eventually, that would make it a 6-star flagship. Only 5 stars for now, sorry..

L. Masso Anton

February 4, 2025

Excellent

Amazing product. Thanks UA.

W. Barroso

February 4, 2025

Excelente plugins

hasta el momento uno de los mejores compresores que he usado en mis mezclas.

J. Hernández

February 3, 2025

It's excellent

Excellent

J. Hernández

February 3, 2025

Maravilloso

Me ha ayudado en mis mezclas

Da una excelente comprensión

S. Takashi

January 31, 2025

I guess it depends on how you use it.

I tried combining it with a YAMAHA acoustic guitar, and it turned out great.
Some people may criticize it for its accuracy, but I think it's a great sound source worth the money.
I'm sorry, but it's up to you whether you make it live or kill it, and if you're particular about accuracy, I think you should buy the real thing.

This piano sound source produces a very beautiful sound depending on how you use it.

M. Wala

January 31, 2025

Great !

Great compressor for everything :)

J. Hodnett

January 31, 2025

F A N T A S T I C

Start to final download took less time than it does to make a sandwich . This plug-in is SUPERB in every aspect, and I've only scratched the surface. I'm from the old school and will admit, I'm still learning.. and loving every note of it!! I realize everybody and their brothers are designing Plug-ins, Universal Audio will be my go to, take the plunge and play it for yourself, you'll be pleased.

J. Hodnett

January 31, 2025

FANDAMNTASTIC

Old school analog guy here who has only recently started in the world of DAW and Plug-ins, and can say without a doubt the Waterfall B3 is fandamntastic if you need organ. Within a few minutes of purchasing I was downloaded and making music. The folks at Universal Audio know good sounds. Go ahead try it for yourself... you'll be pleased.

J. Rojas

January 29, 2025

Fairchild Collection

The beauty of character and tone that the Fairchild collection provides is UNIQUE, it is impressive how it handles the sustain of the audio with those slow releases. Definitely the UA Fairchild emulation is ideal for vocals, bass and drums, giving it a punch without crushing the transients. Definitely a must have.

M. Bonucelli

January 27, 2025

NICE !

Lovely minimoog emulation, great sounding software like the waterfall B3 organ that I love.

M. Bonucelli

January 26, 2025

GOOD FUR ALL USES

Very effective plugin, from versatile compressions to smart saturations. Good for any kind of use.

M. Taki

January 24, 2025

I wasted my money.

As countless people have reported online, I was unable to download the software I purchased and was unable to use it.
There was a problem with the UA connect software used to download the purchased software.
I was using a Windows environment, but an error occurred and it would not even start. I contacted support, tried all the information on the Internet, and even did a clean install of Windows, but it didn't work. This software is rubbish. I wasted my money.