UAD still worth it?

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vitocorleone123 wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:13 am It’s clear from the pricing games over the last months that the true UAD value of their plugins is currently under $50. I won’t pay more than that from here on, and likely no more than $30.
Well, how many times did they go below 30 or even 50? UAD Tuesday is discounting a plugin to 89 and with coupons etc. I can get them for about 50-60 dollars.

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jamcat wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:28 am and likely no more than $30 $40.

Does anyone know why the Neve 1073 Preamp and EQ is available in the Spark subscription, but it is listed only as being for Apollo on uaudio.com and seemingly can't be purchased as a native plugin?
Apparently it's because of some licensing thing with Neve-AMS.

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I support the opinion of the previous commentators - all UAD plugins are highly overpriced.
This was fair and justified 15 years ago, when UAD plugins gave clearly higher quality than native plugins from other manufacturers.
But now the price of UAD plug-in could be $30 - $50 and that would be right...

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I tried to transition to UAD as an experiment, the worst thing was realizing how many of their plugins are not even no latency and some, like a guitar amp sim, had something like 30 ms latency! What the hell

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Fornicras wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:04 am Well, how many times did they go below 30 or even 50? UAD Tuesday is discounting a plugin to 89 and with coupons etc. I can get them for about 50-60 dollars.
If you are speaking about the historical pricing of their DSP-powered plugins (for which now there are Native VST plugins) I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that you could NEVER purchase the 1176 collection at $39 - no matter how many coupons you had.

I am not speaking about their marketing stunts such as, Purchase this interface and you get this set of plugins Blabla

Simply their 1176 collection was never so cheap. Up until a few days ago, they were priced $39 without any coupon here: https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/so ... collection

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jamcat wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:28 am and likely no more than $30 $40.

Does anyone know why the Neve 1073 Preamp and EQ is available in the Spark subscription, but it is listed only as being for Apollo on uaudio.com and seemingly can't be purchased as a native plugin?
Apparently AMS Neve didn't want it being sold to anyone without the DSP. That's the rumor I recall from Gearspace anyway.

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kmonkey wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:16 pm
Fornicras wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:04 am Well, how many times did they go below 30 or even 50? UAD Tuesday is discounting a plugin to 89 and with coupons etc. I can get them for about 50-60 dollars.
If you are speaking about the historical pricing of their DSP-powered plugins (for which now there are Native VST plugins) I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that you could NEVER purchase the 1176 collection at $39 - no matter how many coupons you had.

I am not speaking about their marketing stunts such as, Purchase this interface and you get this set of plugins Blabla

Simply their 1176 collection was never so cheap. Up until a few days ago, they were priced $39 without any coupon here: https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/so ... collection
I paid a ton more then that, back in the day......

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PatchAdamz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:24 pm I paid a ton more then that, back in the day......
I paid close to 3000EUR for their Ultimate bundle just a few years ago. Luckily back then their value was not affected and I sold my Ultimate card for around the same price just around 6 months before they announced Native port. Bullet dodged. I sold it because I realized I didn't need so many plugins from them. They do have good plugins but yes they are or were overpriced and now we see their 1176 bundle at $39

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It may be awhile before we see the 1176 bundle at $39 again.
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP

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jamcat wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:19 pm It may be awhile before we see the 1176 bundle at $39 again.
I'm waiting for their LA2A for that price hopefully.

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I think UAD is releasing a new native port on Tuesday.

Any guesses which it will be?
My guess is Ampex ATR-102
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP

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Every while they pick a random plugin and put it on sale for $89, there is always one plugin on sale.
On holidays they also provide a coupon for $50.
My guess the next holiday you will be able to pick another UAD plugin for $39, and it won't be the 1176.

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Fornicras wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 7:46 am
jamcat wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:19 pm It may be awhile before we see the 1176 bundle at $39 again.
I'm waiting for their LA2A for that price hopefully.
And the Fairchild bundle! I never expected to buy into the UAD platform but if I can keep catching things on sale, I just may.

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roman.i wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:15 pm Every while they pick a random plugin and put it on sale for $89, there is always one plugin on sale.
Every Tuesday.
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP

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kmonkey wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:57 pm
PatchAdamz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:24 pm I paid a ton more then that, back in the day......
I paid close to 3000EUR for their Ultimate bundle just a few years ago. Luckily back then their value was not affected and I sold my Ultimate card for around the same price just around 6 months before they announced Native port. Bullet dodged. I sold it because I realized I didn't need so many plugins from them. They do have good plugins but yes they are or were overpriced and now we see their 1176 bundle at $39
Lucky you!

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