r/mixingmastering • u/ipadmusic • Jan 16 '20
News Universal Audio announces DAW - LUNA
https://musictechtips.com/2020/01/16/universal-audio-announces-daw-luna/28
u/areyoudizzzy Jan 16 '20
LUNA will not open sessions without an Apollo/Arrow connected
Yikes
Edit:
requires iLok
Double yikes
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u/portofly94 Jan 17 '20
Sooo if Iâm mobile and want to sketch an idea or work on a project Iâm SOL. No thanks. Thanks for pointing this out.
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u/areyoudizzzy Jan 17 '20
Exactly, and if they've made decisions as bad as this, I wonder what other brain-dead decisions they've made.
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u/Koolaidolio Jan 17 '20
It wasnât made for that purpose. You got GarageBand for that.
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u/portofly94 Jan 18 '20
It's certainly not going to compete with Protools for mixing and mastering as an industry standard. Honestly if it's not for the creation/ production side of things it seems like a pretty useless tool for anyone who works anywhere other than in their own studio. but hey, maybe it'll bring something to the table for UA users that makes it worthwhile.
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u/atopix Teaboy â Jan 17 '20
To be fair this was ProTools like 10 years ago, before they separated the software from the hardware (before Avid bought Digidesign)
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u/Katzenpower Jan 17 '20
Whats the use for this exactly if every pro is in pro tools anyway?
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u/atopix Teaboy â Jan 17 '20
Artists work on whatever they like (Logic, Ableton, FL Studio), that was never an issue. This is clearly meant more for recording/production of DIY projects.
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Jan 17 '20
Im calling it rn, MAJOR flop.
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u/atopix Teaboy â Jan 17 '20
I mean, they are not really selling it, so in this case it being a flop should be that no one uses it, so they stop developing it.
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u/atopix Teaboy â Jan 16 '20
Here will be the official reveal in a little over 3 hours: https://www.uaudio.com/namm
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Jan 16 '20 edited Jan 16 '20
A little too late, IMO. This would have been awesome back in the UAD-1 days when we had to use that stupid âwrapperâ because they somehow couldnât swing making RTAS versions of their plugins.
By now, Native plugins have caught on and many people donât use UAD effects (although theyâve done a good job of exposing users to their plugins via their cheaper Apollo interfaces, still, a lot of the people I know that use these use Native effects for the most part).
Personally, Iâm teaching myself the Fairlight module in Davinci Resolve, same concept, a company that makes photography/video hardware but gives an editing platform away for free (well, a limited but still powerful version). Iâm beginning to do some audio work for Video Post and thatâs becoming (has been for a few years now) very popular in that field (itâs probably what was used to make the Luna trailer, lol). Their hardware consoles look pretty neat too.
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u/Koolaidolio Jan 17 '20
âMany people donât use UAD effectsâ
Come again? They are in every major studio and used every day by pros and hobbyists alike.
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Jan 17 '20
Did I say âMany major studios donât use UAD effectsâ? Itâs Friday man, do you not have anything better goinâ on?
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u/themanifoldcuriosity Jan 17 '20
UA: How about swapping your DAW which works with all VSTs, all interfaces, all operating systems, has a large and thriving modding/user community and even has a pocket version so you can literally open your project on any system that exists... for this one which only works with this one interface, won't open without having that interface connected, might not support all VSTs and requires a Mac and an iLok to use?
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u/tomek_r Jan 17 '20
I'm surprised at all the negativity in this thread. Software has to start somewhere. Version 1.0 of your favorite DAW didn't have all of the functionality that it has today. I'm hoping they take feedback and iterate. I say congrats to the team that built it on their release!
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u/themanifoldcuriosity Jan 17 '20
Version 1.0 of your favorite DAW didn't have all of the functionality that it has today.
Version 1.0 of my favourite DAW didn't have less functionality than the product it replaced though. Which puts it one up on this. So...
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u/tomek_r Jan 17 '20
Absolutely, I think it's going to take a few major releases before things stabilize and they have enough features for people to consider really making a switch to using it full time. Routing seems to be a huge pain for the Apollo so I think that's a great start so far.
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u/Koolaidolio Jan 17 '20
Itâs basically an expansion on their Console app. FWIW if you donât use the app often, you wonât see a use for it in your work.
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u/joeman7890 Jan 16 '20
Thank you for finding this out before the launch. I couldnât wait until 3:30EST to find out what this was. Lol
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u/currentsound Jan 26 '20
Announced before Namm⌠Well that is boring lol. It was more fun discovering it at Namm. I shot a video of it too: https://currentsound.com/general/universal-audio-luna-daw-first-impressions-review/
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