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CHAPTER 3
UAD System Overview
The UAD Environment
The complete UAD Powered Plug-Ins environment consists of many compo-
nents. These components are:
• One or more UAD DSP hardware accelerator devices
• The UAD device drivers
• The UAD plug-ins
• The host computer system
• The plug-in host application software
• An audio I/O interface and its drivers
All these components operate together simultaneously within one computer to
form the complete audio processing system.
The other UAD component is your account at my.uaudio.com
the UA online store, where UAD devices are registered, UAD vouchers are re-
deemed, and UAD plug-in licenses and authorizations are obtained. Al-
though my.uaudio.com is not required during normal system use, it is essen-
tial for initializing the overall UAD system because authorization is required
to use UAD-Powered Plug-Ins (see
The UAD Hardware
The UAD DSP (Digital Signal Processing) hardware accelerator devices pro-
vide the "power" behind UAD Powered Plug-Ins. Most of the UAD plug-ins use
extremely complex algorithms to provide the quality sound and accurate mod-
eling Universal Audio is famous for. The UAD processor engines are signifi-
cantly more optimized to perform the complex DSP routines required for these
algorithms than a standard desktop computer CPU can deliver.
Two main UAD device "families" are available: UAD-2 and UAD-1. Each de-
vice family has its own set of drivers which are specified during UAD software
installation. All UAD devices are Mac and Windows compatible unless stated
otherwise; the hardware is identical for both OS platforms.
UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual
"Authorization Overview" on page
- 38 -
(page
47) and
Chapter 3: UAD System Overview
48).
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