Unfortunately, I went the whole hog on this one and also bought a new PC with the latest CPU, 16Gb of memory and three Thunderbolt 3 (T3) ports. I was hoping for something that would be a bit more plug and play. To get to use UA software, you have to buy UA hardware seems a bit 1990’s to me.
#Mulab play vst amp without recording software
After all, the software resides on the computer, and to use the interface as a stand alone mixer is just not possible without a computer. So having access to that is cool until you think about how so many companies realize that a simple dongle or a cloud based system would make everybody’s life so much simpler. I need access to the software, and have them on the road. Nice preamps, cool design, ok price if I got some new plugins. Just lugging around a brick, and weighs as much as one, adds to all the other stuff I have to carry. I can use this Arrow, don’t get me wrong. But puts way too much dependency on other manufacturers. UA thinks that their hardware won’t fail, which is probably right. Even presonus knows to throw in an external power supply, just in case. I know that power on data busses go out all the time. I understand the convenience of bus powering, but if that’s your only way to get juice to the box, then there is a dependence on a computer manufacturer that is fragile at best. NOPE! This guy is only thunderbolt three bus powered and has no way to plug in a wall wart. No problem, just plug in the optional power supply I’m thinking. After all it does get hot, meaning the hardware designer is probably living in an analog world. Apparently thunderbolt two can’t provide enough power to run two simple preamps of the Arrow. Well that’s fine but that one is limited with soldered storage and my road ready laptop has thunderbolt two. Ok I thought, just use my newest MacBook Pro. That is a problem with my Dell XPS which also has one connector. But there is only one thunderbolt three connector and I cannot loop through. No biggy I thought, at least now I can bring my plugins with me on the road.
#Mulab play vst amp without recording portable
UA’s answer to that was NO! So the value of this so called portable interface was immediately cut in half. As a registered owner of four UA interfaces, I expected to get the opportunity to swap out my packaged software bundle with different plugins. But that’s where my positive review starts down the dark path of whoa. The build, like most UA hardware is fantastic.
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