UA makes a lot of promo for the realtime "tracking" (with people like Jacquires King (Producer of James Bay, Kings of Leon. It depends on your workflow if UAD DSPs make sense. Every time you "stream" the audio signal from DSP to native (CPU) or the other way around your Systembuffer is the bridge. but it is always a compromise to combine the native and the DSP world.
Yes, I also had to learn a lot things about DSP Systems the last yearsĭSP Systems works best when you stay inside the DSP signal flow. Of course you still have to check about latency. Nowadays there are so many other plugin developer with the same quality but without hardware binding (brainworx, slate, sonnox, softube and many many more). Since the beginning I had to change UAD-Hardware because of changing computer technology/incompatibility (PCI, PCI-X, PCI-Express, Thunderbolt) If it's broken you can not use your plugins. This latency can be annoying also with plugin delay compensation.
I'm mixing always during composing the song. It won't be a problem for you if you use these Plugins for mixdown as a final process. But even on a DAW with plugin delay compensation you still have the latency. So you will hear latencies between tracks with and without UAD plugins (My workaround is to put that plugin on every timing critical channel … mostly EQ and compressor). MASCHINE does not have a plugin delay compensation. But would I start with UAD again today? No! UA makes high quality stuff and I love them. UAD-Plugins sound great and has been a good alternative back in the day to support a lame G4, G5 CPU. Should it work for you? It depends on you. I'm using UAD from the beginning (with Logic Pro) and still using it with MASCHINE now.
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