UAD plugins are great, but we all know their hardware's CPU is highly outdated and doesn't make much more sense these days.

So, I think Luna is just a marketing strategy to aggregate some extra value to their hardware...Let's see for how much longer they can keep milking this cow.

 

I think what taxi said about it being more about audio and less about midi is where it falls short for me. I can't figure out how to even use multi-timbral softsynths (Omnisphere for ex.)? And I agree, it's V1. Hopefully it can evolve in to something useful to me. To my ears, the sonics were really nice on the app. I wasn't shocked at all that it's being used as a way to sell you plugs. That's pretty much been UA's motto from the get-go.

 

any company that goes *mac only* or *mac first* in today's world deserves the wraith of the Iluminati. Oh wait. APPLE is THE BOHEMIAN GROVE. Smokes. but seriously. what a waste. mac-tards can barely compose a riff in Garageband. No true musician would be caught dead slumped over a mac.

*Mac PLEASE

 

My uninformed, anecdotal and biased 2¢ from someone who left UA 5 years ago --

Glad I left the dongle/ecosystem. When I 'upgraded' from my Apogee Duet II to the (original silverface) Apollo the move was lateral at best. I still preferred the DI/preamps and AD/DA on the Apogee by a good margin.

And as plugins continued to improve (Acustica Audio, DMG Audio etc) it just seemed insane tying myself to an underpowered SHARC platform that were starting to sound very average. Went back to Apogee and never looked back.

I love the Apollo concept. I still miss the EP34 and Lex 224 plugins, which were fantastic. As an interface, Apollo has arguably the best I/O in the business, and the X line's conversion is starting to go toe-to-toe with the big names.

I really do wish UA well with LUNA, Apple and ProTools need competition. But LUNA to me seems to be a not-so-subtle "plugin store" built into a free DAW that's going to take many, many iterations to pry Logic and Ableton from my clutches.

If UA quality matched Acustica Audio quality with their plugins and coupled it with actual legit DSP power? Sign me up. But I ain't buying an Apollo box that contains SHARCs that cost 20¢, sorry Putnam and Crew.

Even *if* Neve summing and Moog were free, why bother?

 

ironically they are now trying to come off as sort of "open platform, downloadable" and yet they're just as nichey, cliquey like pro tools and cubase - and look where that's gotten those 2 companies... truth be told, having a stooopid usb key is dumb.

ilok software mgr has kinda impacted the scene, an agreeable solution for the legit owner that's difficult to defeat...

 

my review is one of the ones deleted. you can see here where it had been posted and now its nowhere to be found