Santa Cruz, CA (July 7, 2009)--Universal Audio reports that its UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform has surpassed 30,000 users worldwide, making it the second-largest audio plug-in processing platform in the world, second only to Digidesign's TDM.
Universal Audio is also expanding its UAD platform to laptop users with the release of the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, a compact ExpressCard-based DSP Accelerator, now shipping worldwide.
Since the launch of the original UAD-1 card in 2001, the UAD Powered Plug-Ins collection has steadily grown to include authentic, licensed emulations from Neve, Roland, Moog, Fairchild, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix, and Universal Audio's own 1176.
As a result, UAD Powered Plug-Ins have become the choice of numerous record producers and Grammy-winning engineers, including Frank Filipetti (James Taylor, Paul Simon); Justin Niebank (Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts); Ryan West (Kanye West, T.I., T Pain); Chris Dugan (Green Day); Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers, Seal); Matt Knobel (Lenny Kravitz, Ricky Martin); Vance Powell (White Stripes, Raconteurs); and Rik Simpson (Coldplay).