Im sure you guys have seen it on youtube... there is a guy who seems to sell ALL of the UADs cracked for a "donation" - I didnt get if you still need / or can use the apollo dsp to load the plugins or if with this method you can load the plugins on your computer directly... - not sure if it is ok for me to post the link here
anyone here that tried ?
how could this work ? chances for this to be fake / stop working ?
thoughts ?

 

That guy only lets you in to a group where they share the plug-ins between eachother and therefore requires a UAD interface or satellite. If it's the guy I think you are talking about. I don't think they will try to crack those plug-ins because you would still need a said interface or satellite to use them. The only other option would be to try and port them to run on pc/mac but then you could might as well just make new plug-ins altogether!

 

is super fake

 

Why do we get "UAD Cracked" threads at least once a month?
It can't be done! And those who claim they can do it are all fake.

Period.

 

is it possible that they found a work around it ? if you look on youtube there are a few videos of a guy claiming he has . there are hundreds of comments saying it all works ... i had a quick look through these accounts commenting and they all seem real ..

 

personally i have a quite a few uad plugins and im happy with what i have ... so its just curiosity

 

There is a loophole works, but it has nothing to do with cracking. Search other threads if you want to know how it works.

the guy posting photoshopped screenshots and who kept posting here went away the minute he was called on to demonstrate his thing worked. Was just an attention-seeking timewaster.

 

The UAD Plug-ins won't make your mixes better. You can just make good sounding quality records or mixes with your stock plug-ins as well.

 

I figured out a method before. I don't know if it could work but it seems pretty logic to me.

1. Find people who wanna buy the whole UAD Plug-Ins
2. Buy some servers
3. Connect the server with the UAD Device which you bought all plug-ins
4. Link your server with other computers
-> let your computer emulate a USB Connection from the server

I tested this before in a studio. I connected my UAD Device to my MacBook but was using another Interface. I was able to use the DSP and Plug-ins from the UAD eventhough I was using another audio in- and output. I don't know much about emulating or coding stuff but I think this should be possible. I don't know if the DSP is used from the UAD Device that is connected to the server or to the computer. Can anyone try this at home if you have 2 Apollo devices?

 

i

m not very techky but to have the uad plugins to work you need the physical device, each device has dsp on board, the more dsp you have the more plugins you can load... its not just an "ilok" that let you use the license of the plugins .... so if i got what you are saying.... you couldnt share the same soundcard / satellite with other people that way

 

No, it just doesn't work like this.

 

Please don't I don't need any more EQ or compressors.

 

People who own UAD interfaces can get together and buy them together, splitting the price. That's the only way I know of how to get UAD plugins for cheap.

 

UAD plugs require the hardware to run, people act like they're the holy grail of plugs, when they're just ok at best, there's other plugins that work just as good if not better in my mind

 

It requires you to transfer your UAD hardware to some other random guy's account, so the plugins he has can be authorised to all hardware cards in the "system". You'll lose the ability to manage your card, or buy any plugins, and hope that his account doesn't get removed for abuse from their system...

 

Yeh no way in hell I'd risk my UA account to that lol, just buy what you need, do we really need any more free plugins, Have you saw what R2R did for us this New Years? wtf

 

The only way for UAD plugin to be cracked would be that each interface have some modification. So it's technically not impossible, but in reality it seems very complex (and UAD would probably find a new thing after that, which mean that you would have to go to the same kind of process if you want to update, and also probably lose your official account with its associated legit plugins).

Other way would be to have your hardware register on the same account as someone who got everything, but that would need some great trust (and I'm not sure at which point it would become suspicious for UAD)

UAD plugin are great, but you got equivalent in the "normal" VST world, also lot of UAD plugin are from third-party manufacturers, like Softube, Brainworx, Lexicon, Oxford or Antares, so they are available in as regular VST, and some of them are already cracked. The only difference with the UAD version is the "0 latency" process made possible with the interface processor, other than that, soundwise it's exactly the same and there is very few plugin that are only UAD exclusive

 

With UAD the board is proprietary. To do this said 'crack', they not only have to crack the software, but they also have to transfer all of the communication processing into software code from the ROMS, PROMS and EPROMS. I know of only one hacker in the last 20 years that did this with a degree of success and that was with dongles. R2R possibly could but the extra coding from the board back into software and reverse engineering for each plugin would be substantial. I cannot see anyone doing this other than as a pet project.
Like climbing Mt.Everest - because it's there.

 

So..Stable &low latency connection is required.
I think Access Analog better,because they have real hardware.