Since there are still not so many high-end plugins available natively on Linux, this would open up a whole world.
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Plus, of course, device drivers for the interfaces as such. Because they would not have to change their plugins as such, they would only have to provide VST adapters for Linux for their DSP-based plugins. Well, the somewhat nasty facts that the plugins run inside the UAD hardware could make it much easier for them supporting Linux. you might need additional devices to accumulate DSP power as there are plenty of interesting, but very CPU hungry plugins. These Shark DSPs are not the fastes ones frankly said.
Even if you buy them during special offers it's still a significant amount of money for stuff, that is only useable under UAD/Sparc DSP. Best you also win in the lottery to be prepared for the additional costs for plugins. In my opinion, for UAD it makes no sense to get bogged down in the Linux area when Windows support is not complete for all products and by no means on par with Apple (in terms of stability, assuming that stability under Apple is better because so many customers are so excited about UAD solutions under Apple). I had performance and stability issues with the UAD-2 Octo when trying to run just one virtual Fender Amp and 2 VSTs with lower latency / realtime performance. Also bad, none of their USB / TB recording interfaces support both, Windows and Apple.Īlso, the quality of Windows 10 drivers is far from stellar. And this although Windows is still a much larger market compared to the Linux market. I'm surprised that UAD actually wants to start Linux support given that only few smaller interfaces with low port density and only few Shark DSPs are supported for Windows.