#Can i use uad plugins without hardware update#
#Can i use uad plugins without hardware driver#

I know exactly what youвЂ™re referring to, and honestly I found enough good substitutes that I donвЂ™t need anything from them. YouвЂ™re right - Waves is a mess and I am off of them as well. I learned my lesson, now I create an image of my recording drivesвЂ¦and I donвЂ™t walk into convoluted validation schemes. Their solution was for me to do a full reinstall of the PC or upgrade (pay another $400) to their latest. I got locked out of a legit version of Cubase and it took them several days to resolve my issue just enough so I can export my files out of it to Sonar. Out of over 200 unique plugins I can quite honestly say there is maybe only 7 plugins that I will use day in day out. I have a good understanding of which plugins are essential and which plugins are not. For the most part IвЂ™ve seen validation schemes usually affect the legit users more than anyone else. As someone that owns every plugin UAD have to offer and someone that works with UAD plugins every day in a professional capacity.

#Can i use uad plugins without hardware update#

Avid could give a flying fuck.ДЄs long as you have the hardware and know-how to look at what happens at registry level, you can easily copy these changes to the new PC and lock is so it wonвЂ™t update and you will probably have the same setup as PC #1.

THAT my friend is a bullshit attempt to curb the used market.

#Can i use uad plugins without hardware driver#

Its called a digilink license, and the driver is $1899!!! That driver must be registered to your Avid account and it is not transferrable. If you buy one used, you have to buy a license in order to activate the driver. Right? Avid used to sell these fucking things for $8000, now they cost $3000 yet theyвЂ™re no more powerful than your cellphone. So the idea is that you wanna make it a bitch to try and buy a used Avid HDX card. I have no doubt that it was the correct move, though it did come across as a вЂfooled ya sucker!вЂ™ you say.Д«ut hey, you wanna talk about them being assholes? HereвЂ™s one for ya. IвЂ™ve poured over years of avidвЂ™s finance statements, and you can even see the change of direction in their cashflow when they opened up to 3rd party. There were some major changes in the company around that time, where in the red and realized they would be eating dirt if they didnвЂ™t stop depending on their hardware to sustain them.

Can you Trial UAD plugins All UAD devices include a free 14-day fully functional trial evaluation period for individual UAD Powered Plug-Ins that are not already licensed by the registered device owner. UAD plugins are only processed by Apollo/UAD-2 DSP Accelerator inside of UAD devices.

Version 9 they opened up the field to 3rd party interfaces Can you use UAD plugins without UAD Unfortunately, no.