Universal Audio LUNA Pro Bundle $88.11

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Universal Audio LUNA Pro Bundle $88.11
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https://www.jrrshop.com/universal-audio-luna-pro-bundle

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[Peter DeLegge]

I just picked up Studio One Pro 7, but I thought a little about LUNA. I suppose because I know some inside information on the development of the project and how Universal Audio scaled back plans for it, I was hesitant to go with it. But obviously, UA is a great developer. Is anyone here using LUNA? If so, I’d love to get your thoughts.

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On Peter DeLegge said

I just picked up Studio One Pro 7, but I thought a little about LUNA. I suppose because I know some inside information on the development of the project and how Universal Audio scaled back plans for it, I was hesitant to go with it. But obviously, UA is a great developer. Is anyone here using LUNA? If so, I’d love to get your thoughts.

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I’m also the chef at this place.

I’ve used it a little, but would treat it more like Harrison (/SSL) Mixbus. Great for mixing and some of their native effects, or inbuilt options add some nice vibe. Good for recording.

I personally woudn’t produce music in either, so mostly ignore them for MIDI and VSTi.

This offer is a lttle different where the DAW is free and this is really the plugins and extenstions that expand it.

I think a lot of us would have most of these from Signature apart from some of the bolded ones:

•Ampex ATR-102 Master Tape Machine & LUNA Extension
•API 2500 Bus Compressor & LUNA Extension
•API Preamp
•API Summing LUNA Extension
•API Vision Channel Strip & LUNA Extension
•Century Tube Channel Strip
•Galaxy Tape Echo
•Oxide Tape Recorder
•Polymax
•Pultec Passive EQ Collection
•Pure Plate Reverb
•Studer A800 Tape Recorder & LUNA Extension
•Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection

I had planned on buying the Ampex ATR-102 Master Tape at some point and this includes the plugin to use in Cubase, as well as extension for Luna. Luna is a bit weird that even if you own the plugins, they expect you to buy the Luna bundle to get the extensions. That’s a bit crappy on their part, although Softube does that with some of their console ones too.

So if someone is interested in the Ampex ATR-102 Master Tape or any of the others, then it’s not a lot more to spend to get a LOT more options when using Luna as it opens up all the extensions and gives you a lot more choice.

Luna would be fine for mastering projects as well.

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[Peter DeLegge]

Thanks, @MusicMan, that make a lot of sense. I’m dreading having to learn Studio One Pro 7 after spending decades with Sonar / Cakewalk By Bandlab. Even if Luna is awesome, it’s still another DAW to learn while I could be going deeper in understanding Studio One Pro 7.

One of the things about getting older — and not to get to heavy, but loss — is that time is valuable and finite. Not having to deal with another major learning curve is worth something.

 

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[ralfrobert]

On Peter DeLegge said

Thanks, @MusicMan, that make a lot of sense. I’m dreading having to learn Studio One Pro 7 after spending decades with Sonar / Cakewalk By Bandlab. Even if Luna is awesome, it’s still another DAW to learn while I could be going deeper in understanding Studio One Pro 7.

One of the things about getting older — and not to get to heavy, but loss — is that time is valuable and finite. Not having to deal with another major learning curve is worth something.

 

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I’m also the chef at this place.

Well said. Time gets more valuable. So no Luna for me, but Cubase in-depth.

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[Blacque Jacque Shellacque]

Luna lacks ARA support, which makes working with Melodyne more difficult.

My name is Jacques but you can call me Blacque Jacque Shellacque for short

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[anxiousmofo]

I really wish UAD would offer this same $99 discount on their own site, so people could make use of coupons.

Tangled roots perplex her ways.

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[deleted user]

On Peter DeLegge said

Thanks, @MusicMan, that make a lot of sense. I’m dreading having to learn Studio One Pro 7 after spending decades with Sonar / Cakewalk By Bandlab. Even if Luna is awesome, it’s still another DAW to learn while I could be going deeper in understanding Studio One Pro 7.

One of the things about getting older — and not to get to heavy, but loss — is that time is valuable and finite. Not having to deal with another major learning curve is worth something.

 

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I’m also the chef at this place.

Welcome Peter and for some reason I like learning a new DAW, but we’re all different! For recording, or mixing, most of them are really pretty straight forward. Add EQ, compression, effects, some busses if required. I normally find most of the compexity comes with advanced production and MIDI stuff. I used Harrison and really liked it for mixing and it took the sound in a slightly different direction than I may have in Cubase.

That’s the thing, they all kind of do the same thing, but some have their own sound/colour (due to their inbuilt effects, etc. They can all be made to sound the same when you disable those if possible) or workflow.

And sometimes that leads to inspiration, or discovering new things. So having a few options isn’t always a bad thing. I LOVE mixing in Cubase, so that will likely always be my main DAW for that for the foreseeable future.

Completely agreed on time and loss can definitely highlight that.

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On anxiousmofo said

I really wish UAD would offer this same $99 discount on their own site, so people could make use of coupons.

Tangled roots perplex her ways.

I suspsect that’s imminent. Once the 12 days sale they’re having is over, they will start pimping it out too!

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On ralfrobert said

On Peter DeLegge said

Thanks, @MusicMan, that make a lot of sense. I’m dreading having to learn Studio One Pro 7 after spending decades with Sonar / Cakewalk By Bandlab. Even if Luna is awesome, it’s still another DAW to learn while I could be going deeper in understanding Studio One Pro 7.

One of the things about getting older — and not to get to heavy, but loss — is that time is valuable and finite. Not having to deal with another major learning curve is worth something.

 

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I’m also the chef at this place.

Well said. Time gets more valuable. So no Luna for me, but Cubase in-depth.

I think I spent less than a day to learn everything I needed for mixing on Luna, so not much outlay in time. But Cubase Pro 14 is definitely going to stay my go-to. In 14 they added a bunch of things, but even the workflow improvements just make it so much better to use. And I already liked it to start with 🙂

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[bapu]

LUNA for me will be about recording live drums with an API console printed to tape.

Export for mixing in Studio One.

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