Best Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite TB3 Quad Alternatives

Based on 12 reviews

If you need a kick to boost your UA system processing power, this is the no brainer option. I would guess the other scenario would be to use it standalone to add support for UA plugins to an existing system, particularly useful in a mobile solution. Unboxed it, plugged it in my Apollo x8p, switched on: it popped up the registration web page. Overall I was done with all of that in about 2 minutes, and up and running. Could not have been simpler than that. Handling the unit it also feels sturdy, which seems relevant if you use it a lot in mobile scenarios. The Quad unit is cheaper but I'd recommend the extra investment for the Octo. This is especially true if this is the only UA processing unit you use: 4 DSPs is not a lot, and if you run at higher sample rates you will definitely run out...

Based on 5 reviews

I had this in a PC PCIe slot with Windows and now have moved it to Sonnet PCIe expansion box and connected to Mac along with 2 more cards of the same type. They just quietly get on with their business and let me use UAD plugins seamlessly without fuss or bother. If you're looking to get into the UAD plugin thing, you will absolutely not regret it.

Based on 2 reviews

I purchased this unit to extend the processing power of my UAD Apollo Twin (Quad). It does what it says on the tin, my UAD Luna (DAW) sessions are no longer maxing-out from the use of dozens of plugins across my recording session. My sessions now fully benefit from UAD's awesome plugins, my home recordings have never sounded so good! My only criticism is that when I purchased the Apollo Twin, I didn't realise how quickly I was going to run out of processing power and require the satellite unit, (which isn't cheap), but that's more of a criticism of UAD's marketing model rather than the unit. Nevertheless, UAD offer an affordable entry point to world class recording software (UAD Plug-ins and UAD's Luna DAW). Set up was super easy (if memory serves, I placed the satellite unit...

Based on 1 reviews

I've ditched my HDX Card, all my Focusrite I/O Gear, Monitor Controller, Headphone Amp, Big Rack Cabinet and replaced it with 1U ProTools Carbon! (I've even made a profit by selling the gear its replaced. I've also gained 5U of rack space. I installed it from my Avid account and it pretty much configured itself once I selected it as Playback Engine in Pro Tools. Done. It has all my synths going in, a couple convenient instrument inputs on the front and 4 headphones out which I am using for headphones but have also assigned a pair to use for a second pair of monitors which are in front of my synths. The main monitors are powered from the back. It looks good and I have to say, I notice an improvement in my overall sound production. It doesn't show any signs of stress at all when running...

Based on 1 reviews

They card it is the very good addon to the yamaha 01v96i, connect to Soundgrid Server, unload the plugin's from DAW computer (PC) to the WSG Server via Studiorack, can route the outputs of Cubase Pro 10.5 with "Waves SoundGrid ASIO" to 16 Channels USB or to the "WSG Y16V2"... - Switch tp-link model: TL-SG105(UN) Ver:3.0 - Custom made server I5-4460 @ 320GHz / 8 Go Ram DDR3 / Realtek r8169

Based on 5 reviews

I was looking for the most realistic hardware gear emulations and as everybody knows AU is one of the best if not the best company in emulating hardware. On top of that theyr plugins run on this efficient external accelerator which is more than convenient if you want to save your PC processing power for other tasks. The only negative thing is that it's not interchangeable between PC and Mac machines. Other than that I'm very happy with it.

Based on 4 reviews

A great tool to have if you're travelling a lot. Being able to take great sounding, familiar effects with you to use in studios that aren't your own or even when you're not in a studio at all, makes life very easy. Bypassing effects in DAWs to A/B could get troublesome on less powerful computers, but up to date mine has handled it just fine.