UA is working hard on known issues (this is one of them) and once you’ve got LUNA up and running, there’s a ‘Feedback’ option in the top right-hand corner where you can report issues and make suggestions; a direct line to contribute to future development – well done UA. Visually, the Mixer environment, when you've reached that point in your project, is a joy to work with. Indeed, there’s a ‘Store’ which lets you buy content (for instruments, extensions and plugins) directly inside the app.
In fact, we’re told that it enables you to record through DSP-powered UAD plugins with no discernable latency; this is thanks to the new Accelerated Realtime Monitoring feature. In order to manage instrument and extension licenses, Luna has to be logged into your UA account, much as the UA Console has to be logged in in order to manage UAD-2 plug-in licenses.
You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem. For complete system requirements, † All trademarks are property of their respective owners, and used only to represent the instruments modeled as part of LUNA software. Please download this software on your Mac. LUNA user documentation can be downloaded in PDF format for offline use. Choose the Hardware page. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, © Apollo x6; Apollo x8. It feels as much like working with a hardware console and tape-based recording system as it does something computer-based, somehow. Even better still, changing the host tempo can automatically affect audio files without you having to alter their status in advance; LUNA makes it very easy to experiment with project tempo, even deep into the production and mix process. LUNA will allow you to work not only with UA’s plugins but with third-party AU ones too, which is great. By perfectly capturing every nuance of the classic Moog oscillators and ladder filters and harnessing discrete transistor VCA modeling, the Minimoog LUNA Instrument faithfully captures every detail and anomaly of this classic instrument used by everyone from Parliament-Funkadelic to Kraftwerk, Dr. Dre, and more.A comprehensive creative toolkit included free with LUNA, Shape is a painstakingly curated LUNA Instrument featuring a collection of the best vintage keys, drums/percussion, guitar/bass, orchestral content, and realtime synthesis, from Universal Audio, Spitfire Audio, and more. A paid-for Extension called Neve Summing brings Bus Tracks to life, by enabling an emulation of the Neve 1272 Summing Amp to be placed across the Bus. And of course, it’s a somewhat closed shop; Mac-only, Apollo-only and with a one-way approach to its new instruments and extensions; they can be used in LUNA, but not outside it, albeit the reason for this is due to DSP management and avoiding latency issues.Perhaps most crucially, LUNA must have an Apollo interface attached to work, which means it’s not the most immediately-ready audio environment for use on planes and trains. LUNA features two main pages – the Timeline Display for showing Audio and MIDI files, and the Mixer view. The first thing to consider is the main LUNA Application, which, as you’d expect, offers super-tight integration with UA’s interfaces. Not only does this sound really great, its incorporated ‘Trim’ option makes it very easy to attenuate sub-mixes before the Master Bus. If I'm only test driving LUNA why are they forcing me to commit their keyboard shortcuts to memory? Arrow. However, install here was held up by an issue with the eLicenser software (which authorises plugins like Vienna Symphonic Library) and a fair amount of Component moving was required to isolate problem elements. So you can import audio recorded at ‘any’ sample rate and it will bring it in without so much as a grumble. Expect plenty more to come in future updates but, even at Version 1, LUNA offers plenty, with a smooth and pleasing workflowYou might be wondering why we’re taking such pains to avoid using the acronym ‘DAW’ here and instead using phrases like ‘recording environment’. Bath Indeed, even if all you did in LUNA was to bounce stems in your favourite DAW, import them into LUNA for Tape-based processing and Neve Summing, your mixes would probably sound better. No buffers to adjust, no one-app-to-another configuration. 4-710d Four-Channel Tone-Blending Mic Preamp w/ Dynamics
At the left of the LUNA window, click the UA icon, then click Settings. LUNA’s design will be familiar to Apollo and Console users and also to those who have used their interface to track into Pro Tools, which has inspired plenty of LUNA’s workflow and key commands. In addition to its seamless hardware‑software integration with Thunderbolt‑equipped* Apollo and Arrow interfaces, LUNA Recording System allows capturing audio through DSP‑powered UAD plug‑ins with no discernible latency, as well as offering new Accelerated Realtime MonitoringCreate with precisely emulated analog summing from the famed Neve 80 series consoles. Better still, LUNA appears to work without needing a fixed project sample rate. This technology allows you to configure Apollo-hosted, latency-free effects processing through which you can track and monitor recordings. Secondly, you can record multiple, named takes to a single track and then consolidate them into a ‘master’ take. Apollo Twin MkII; Apollo x6. What’s wonderful about Luna, though, is that managing instruments and extensions (and their licenses) is built in.
Firstly, it contains multiple great-sounding ‘Warp’ algorithms (‘Elastic Audio’ equivalents), which let you seamlessly manipulate timing without needing to cut and move. All rights reserved. Everyone’s needs are different and some of those issues might dissuade you.