UAD Studio Edition

Transform your DAW into a Vintage Analog Paradise

Build your dream studio with 33 UAD plug-ins and instruments — 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 — $5,825 in value if purchased separately — UAD Studio Edition gives you the gear and sounds used by hit-making professionals every day:

• 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.

UAD Studio Edition includes:

• 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.".

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.