Point is, if your primary goal is to save money, figure out the plugins you actually really want/need and buy those. And, at the end of the day, you'd have spent more money that you were initially planning in both situations - this is not what I would call saving money. Now if you never or very rarely put those 10 extra plugins to use, you just basically threw $500 out of the window. Now sometimes, this can be a great deal for customers too - instead of spending 1K to get, say 10 plugins, if you can spend $500 more to get 10 more plugins, most of which you actually have an interest for and will end up putting them to use, it's a win-win situation. Manufacturers bundle plugins because it increases sales, that is, it makes customers to spend more money than they would have otherwise. It seems to me as you don't actually need/want to own absolutely every single UAD plugin but rather that your main concern is buying plugins at the best overall price/overall number of plugs ratio, thinking that you'll actually save the most money this way but seriously, you're only going to spend more money. With its abundance of EQs, channels strips, compressors, delays, reverbs, and more, the collection brings the warmth of classic analog equipment into your DAW.If your primary goal is actually to save money I feel like you're missing an important point. It features a library of authentic analog gear emulations developed in collaboration with iconic manufacturers such as Ampex, Lexicon, Neve, Manley, Fairchild, Studer, Fender, SSL, Empirical Labs, and more, using their exact original schematics and experienced ears. The Ultimate 7 bundle comprises 99 UA-developed plug-in titles spanning across multiple categories, all compatible with Audio Units, AAX 64, RTAS, and VST plug-in formats. The UAD-2 OCTO allows you to create large professional mixes filled with rich analog-emulation plug-ins, which may be difficult or impossible to achieve with native recording systems.

Featuring eight SHARC processors, it supercharges your workstation and integrates with other UAD-2 devices including additional UAD-2 PCIe cards, the UAD-2 Satellite, and Apollo audio interfaces. The card easily installs on Windows and Mac workstations equipped with a desktop tower or a PCIe-to-Thunderbolt expansion chassis.

As the company's most powerful DSP accelerator PCIe card, the Universal Audio UAD-2 OCTO Ultimate 7 enables professional power users to run demanding projects with high plug-in instances and/or high sample rates at low latency and without burdening the computer's CPU.

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