UNIVERSAL AUDIO Luna
FREE TO UA APOLLO/ARROW USERS
Key features
• Recording software that integrates with UA’s audio interfaces
• Analogue-style signal path and workflow
• Tape emulation available on all audio tracks
• Instrument tracks can host new Luna Instruments or AU instruments
• Neve Summing emulation available on bus tracks
• Insert DSP-supported UAD-2 plug-ins and native AU plug-ins
• Focus Channel and Focus Browser create streamlined workflow
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The staggering surprise reveal of Universal Audio’s new DAW-in-all-but-name Luna was one of the biggest talking points of this year’s NAMM. It appeared that with this ‘recording system’, the company had taken everything it had learnt from its world-beating software emulations, DSP-powered low-latency interfacing, and ever-improving user experience and applied them to a single virtual recording environment. Now Luna has landed ahead of schedule, and we’re keen to see what it has to offer – but not before a quick history lesson.
GROUND CONTROL
The Universal Recording Corporation was founded in 1946 with a mission to investigate and develop new recording techniques and equipment. These were early days for the world of sound recording, but by combining their state-of-the-art studios with bleeding-edge hardware development, founder Bill Putnam Senior created a virtuous circle, where real-world experience could be fed back to the company’s design and manufacturing wing, UA.
Putnam attained an enviable reputation for innovation, and the company is responsible for many of the standard recording tools we take for granted today: the layout of mixing consoles, per-channel
