New Gear Alert: SSL’s UC1 DAW Controller, Updated 571A from API, LX480 Essentials Reverb by Relab & More

Solid State Logic unleashes the UC1 channel strip and bus compressor controller.

SSL offers a powerful solution for tactile control of plugins with the UC1.

Building upon decades of SSL’s unique knowledge of console ergonomics and production workflows, the UC1 delivers simultaneous multi-function control of the included SSL Native Channel Strip 2 and Bus Compressor 2 plugins within your DAW session. At the heart of the UC1 is the SSL 360° Plugin Mixer, allowing you to access and control all of your Channel Strips and Bus Compressors in one virtual console overview, offering a true console-like approach to mixing-in-the-box.

The UC1 combines studio-quality encoders, switches and feedback LEDS, with an authentic moving coil Bus Compressor gain reduction meter for that true console “center section” experience. With knob per-function control of the SSL Native Channel Strip 2 and Bus Compressor 2 plugins, the UC1 provides a continual on-board display of which plugin is currently in use, and a value readout of the control currently engaged.

Adding power to your DAW mix experience, the new SSL 360° Plugin Mixer application allows you to create your very own virtual SSL console to work in unison with the UC1 hardware. Designed to provide instant access to current and future SSL designed Channel Strip and Bus Compressor plugins within a single window environment, mix sessions are managed with unparalleled efficiency.

The UC1 is available now, priced at $849.

API introduces the updated 527A.

API adds crucial improvements to their popular 527 model.

Since its debut over 12 years ago, the API 527 has continued to gain popularity with mixing engineers across the world. Designed with maximum user flexibility in mind, the 527 has always offered fast compression and a characteristically punchy tone coupled with the unmistakable sound of API’s analog warmth.

With thousands of 527’s currently in service, API is releasing an updated version of the original 527, now called the 527A. Carefully retaining the circuit structure and sound of the original, the new 527A offers the same outstanding performance but with an expanded feature set which includes improved LED monitoring of gain reduction, and a hard bypass option.

For a full list of the updated 572A’s features, click here.

The API 527A is available now, priced at $1,195.

Relab releases the LX480 Essentials reverb plugin.

Harness the authentic tonality of this classic hardware reverb with Relab’s LX480 Essentials plugin.

Timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the industry-changing digital reverb unit upon which this is based, Relab Development are offering their highly-praised LX480 Essentials plugin right now to the general public, for the first time.

The LX480 Essentials not only faithfully captures the rich complex textures and lush spacious reverb tails of the classic hardware reverb unit, but it makes using them faster and easier than ever before.

The LX480 Essentials is available now at a special introductory promo price of $35 (reg. $99).

Waves announces enhanced Gold Plus and Platinum Plus subscription plans.

Waves’ supercharges their Gold Plus and Platinum Plus subscription bundles.

The new, upgraded Platinum Plus subscription plan now adds four exclusive bonus plugins on top of the standard Waves Platinum bundle: the Waves Kramer Master Tape analog tape emulation plugin, the Infected Mushroom Pusher all-in-one mastering plugin, the Flow Motion FM Synth, and the OneKnob Louder compressor/limiter—for a total of 64 plugins for music production, mixing and mastering.

The new Gold Plus subscription plan now adds two exclusive bonus plugins on top of the standard Waves Gold bundle—Infected Mushroom Pusher and Flow Motion FM Synth—for a total of 44 plugins. And as an extra new bonus, Waves Gold Plus and Platinum Plus subscribers now also receive the exclusive mixing course “Producing & Mixing with Gold Plus” or “Producing & Mixing with Platinum Plus,” free with their subscription.

For information on the various subscription models and pricing, click here.

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