Transform your laptop into a formidable mixing and mastering machine with the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop DSP Accelerator Card from Universal Audio. It brings all of the raw power of SHARC DSP acceleration hardware to your laptop's ExpressCard slot, and puts Universal Audio's award-winning Powered Plug-Ins at your fingertips. It's like having racks of vintage compressors and EQs, lush reverbs, and top-notch channel strips in a piece of hardware that fits in your shirt pocket.
The UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop offers a dramatic improvement over its predecessor by providing an additional 2 1/2 times the processing power in an ultra-compact mobile form factor. Another improvement is the Version 5 software for managing and monitoring the card. It features driver enhancements that utilize multi-core computers, a meter that monitors activity on the cores, and a system that balances the load on the processors.
"Analog Classics" is a new software bundle included with the UAD-2 Solo, a collection of the company's best-selling and most-popular plug-ins that truly captures the quality of their analog hardware emulations, and brings classic "analog" sound to the digital domain. The Pultec EQ and the RealVerb Pro Room Modeler have always been included with the card.
But now, two classics that were previously only available for purchase, have been added. The LA-2A Classic Audio Leveler is an emulation of the revered, electro-optical, analog compressor, while the 1176LN Classic Limiting Amplifier is the most accurate emulation of UA's legendary, FET-based, hardware classic. Also part of the bundle is the 1176SE Limiting Amplifier, a DSP-optimized version of the 1176LN, yielding higher instance counts with its own unique characteristics.
An included voucher allows the user to purchase from Universal Audio (via the Internet) further plug-ins of their choice. Additionally, the UAD-2 Solo/Laptop supports the use of other manufacturers' Audio Units, RTAS or VST plug-ins when using the appropriate host software.