Universal Audio - Arrow - Thunderbolt 3

Started by mchad, February 14, 2018, 05:54:22 PM

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mchad


Surprised this one hasn't been added already.

https://www.uaudio.com/audio-interfaces/arrow.html

p.s it might be in the NAMM 2018 section elsewhere here.



scratch17

Arrow is like a good news and bad news joke.

The good news:


  • Bus powered
  • Small foot print
  • TB3
  • Inexpensive at $500

The bad news:


  • Only one DSP chip
  • No ADAT expansion

Compare to Apollo Twin Mk II (Solo $599, Duo $799, Quad $1199)


  • DSP Sharing* on Duo and Quad models
  • ADAT (or stereo S/PDIF) input expansion
  • TB2

* DSP sharing is available with the release of OS version 9.10 . It allows you to use available additional DSP chips on the same track to increase plugins. In previous OS versions, only a single DSP chip was available per track. This was regardless of how many DSP chips were available. If you exceeded the maximum load of a single chip, you'd get an error message saying that the plugin would not load.

UAD plugins often take a huge amount of DSP. For example the new Capitol Chambers reverb plugin requires 75% of a chip's load capacity just by itself. So DSP sharing is a huge and much appreciated improvement in the DSP architecture for UA's Console.

Obviously this feature is unavailable on Arrow or Twin Solo models. You can't share DSP across UA interfaces. So even with two of these interfaces in the same system, you are limited to one DSP chip.
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