Laptop users will finally be able to get in on the UAD2 action, it seems, thanks to Universal Audio’s launch at NAMM of the UAD2 Satellite. A Firewire device, the Satellite allows computer users who don’t have a spare PCIe slot (including Macbook and iMac owners) to run all of Universal Audio’s plug-ins in their DAWs.
Like the PCIe UAD2 cards, the UAD2 Satellite carries out the processing via its Analog Devices SHARC DSP chips, and it comes in two flavours — the Duo and the Quad — which have equal processing capabilities to their similarly-named PCIe versions. For more information, watch the video, above.