Universal Audio Announces Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb For UAD-2 Plug-Ins Platform

April 8th, 2011 by Janice Brown

At MusikMesse this week, Universal Audio (UA) announced the impending release of the Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plug-in for the UAD-2 platform.

The legendary Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb - coming soon to the UAD-2 plug-ins platform.

The original Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb – with its tactile, slider-based controller and famously lush reverb tail – came out in 1978 and has remained one of the most popular digital reverb units of all time. “The 224 was really the product that launched the Lexicon brand,” noted Michael MacDonald, of Lexicon parent company, Harman Professional.

According to UA’s press announcement: The Lexicon 224 plug-in for UAD-2 precisely captures all eight reverb programs available in original 224 firmware version 4.4, including every tunable parameter, with unique fader-style controls – inviting easy experimentation and sonic exploration.

In UA’s exhaustive modelling tradition, the Lexicon 224 emulation also incorporates the original unit’s input transformers and early AD/DA converters – nailing the entire signal path right down to the last detail.

Additionally, the Lexicon 224 emulation for UAD-2 features direct input and presets from notable Lexicon 224 users, including Chuck Zwicky (Prince, Jeff Beck), Eli Janney (Jet, Ryan Adams), David Isaac (Eric Clapton, Luther Vandross), E.T. Thorngren (Talking Heads, Bob Marley), and Kevin Killen (U2, Peter Gabriel).

Available for purchase via UA’s Online Store in Q2 2011, the Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plug-in will sell for $349.

The Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plug-in will be available as part of the new UAD Software v5.9.0 release, slated for Q2 2011. In addition to the Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plug-in, v5.9.0 includes UA’s first-ever Direct Developer plug-ins from Brainworx and SPL, as well as improvements for UAD-2 Satellite users.

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