I’ve poured over years of avid’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 didn’t stop depending on their hardware to sustain them.

The future will become very interesting, not just the old-school UAD.Version 9 they opened up the field to 3rd party interfaces Slate Digital FG-A completely defeated UAD API-550, and Brainworx is becoming interested in tape and reverbs, and all this actually started a few years ago. The professional audio market is undergoing changes. Universal Audio needs to seriously consider their marketing strategy (in fact, UA is very smart, they bring Native Summing and LUNA). UAD is famous for its reverb plug-in and zero delay, but considering the low level of performance and strange price, it will not be a good solution.Ĭurrently, products like Distressor are replacing products such as Urei 1176, and they are doing better (not only the hardware, but also the software), Knif is challenging Manley (they are at the same level), and we now have seventh heaven and VSS4. It's not a very difficult work right? But hackers need to know the electronic engineering and analog circuits. I think this skill also exists in the United States or Russia, but I have not found relevant evidence. Since being hacked will cause the product to lose the warranty, they will also often provide an additional year of warranty service. The UAD v7.11 version is the most classic 'cracked' version, but you may only find some second-hand dual-core accelerator cards.īut please note: these hackers usually only serve Chinese people, each time they will ask for 300 US dollars or 900 US dollars (depending on the hacker), and need to be paid by the customer for shipping costs. At the same time, the UAD accelerator card that is cracked cannot be updated directly. If you can search in Chinese audio forums in Chinese, I think you can get relevant evidence, and even some people are selling second-hand UAD accelerator cards that have been cracked, but hackers will ask for additional payment to crack or update to the latest UAD version cost. In any case, both methods require access to hardware.

UAD already been cracked for many years since UAD-1 in China.ĭetails: The hardware reverse engineer performs hard cracks to invalidate the timing circuit or modify the remaining plugin trial days in the current UAD flash memory.Īmong them, the first method will make the UAD Panel always display the wrong time (for example, a permanent 9 days demo remaining), and the second method will add tens of thousands of days of trial period to the current device.

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