UAD Linux Support Petition

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Re: UAD Linux Support Petition

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<tavasti>     I don't even know what is UAD :-)
<xxxx>        tavasti: a company who got DSP all backwards and gives you quadruple latency if you use it on realtime sources
<xxxx>        signal path would go: live input > soundcard > DAW > DSP > DAW > soundcard > live output
<xxxx>        (as opposed to on the DSP's I use, there it's live input > DSP > live output, so realtime)
<tavasti>     so have problems of DSP and software world combined?
<tavasti>     pay for special hardware, and still haw latency of software processing?
<xxxx>        yea. like i said, they got it all backwards
<tavasti>     but there is something good in their stuff, because they are still alive?
<zzzzzz>      Good marketing
Anyhow, I have signed it, but sure it won't matter to me even if there would be those drivers.

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I'm not signing, non-free software is the same as no software as far as I'm concerned, I don't care what operating system it's for.
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Re: UAD Linux Support Petition

Post by merlyn »

Kind of moot as this was a complete wind up by UAD. Given their showing on the issue of Linux support, I would consider crossing UAD off anyone's list of hardware they might buy.

In other news the UAD Volt will work on Linux as it's class compliant, which was an unintended consequence of iPad compatibility, but don't buy that either. :D
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