Universal Audio today announced heartwarming news: Version 4.3 of their software for the UAD-1 DSP Card and Powered Plug-Ins system will begin shipping immediately following the Paris AES Show and will include a 14-day, fully functional demo of the Neve 1073 and 1073SE plug-ins. Full authorizations of both Neve plug-ins will be available to registered UAD-1 customers for $249. Matt Ward, president of Universal Audio, announced this first UA-Neve collaboration and explained that the plug-ins deliver absolute sonic accuracy that matches the revered Neve 1073, while the 1073SE is a DSP-optimized version for higher instance counts. Ward stated that UA will also release plug-in versions of the 33609 bus compressor and 1081 EQ, thus delivering a full suite of UA-Neve Classic Console EQ and dynamics processing.
Key Features include:
- Exclusively Neve-licensed and meticulously UA modeled sonics
- Includes the revered 3-band Wessex A88/8014 EQ
- High-shelving, Parametric-mid, Low-shelving, and High-pass filter
- Original RAF Cosmetics and concentric controls
- A special DSP-optimized version (1073SE) for more instances
