Mackie Control Vs Uad-1 Options

[emtee]

*Mistakenly posted this in "Plug-Ins" group -- apologies to Moderator...


Wondering if anyone out there has had experience using a Mackie Control w the UAD-1 PCI dsp card?

I'm waiting for a Control, and was strongly considering purchasing the UAD to take the pressure of my B&W G3 400. However I noticed at the Mackie/UAD downloads page there is a list of "issues", including the fairly ambiguous note that the UAD does not work "correctly" with the Mackie Control in both MAS and VST.

Tried e-mailing Mackie but no response yet. Anyone have any details on exactly what does not work "correctly"? Need to know how bad this is before I invest in the UAD...

(SetUp: B&W G3 400, 700+ megs RAM, DP 3.x in OS 9, MOTU 828, soon a Mackie Control)

TIA

[emtee]

Just an update -- and maybe some info:

Bit the bullet and picked up the UAD-1 -- and sonically speaking I can honestly say that it's amazing! The time compensation for DP/MAS is more than a little confusing, esp figuring out whether I need to compensate for MIDI tracks playing alongside audio, or that crazy 13 sample Pultec compensation -- but I'm sure it will become clearer the more I work with it.

So far no compatibility problems with my B&W G3 or OS 9.2.2 or DP3 -- just the usual occasional freeze/crash but I think that's a pre-existing extension conflict (same thing happened before anyway).

No problem either re the UAD versus my PCI video card (ATI Radeon 7000) -- everything boots up fine, though once I had a graphic glitch when I rebooted into my OSX partition (no problems in OSX after a restart). So perhaps that suggests that the video issues are only with AGP video cards versus the UAD -- but I can't really speak to that until I eventually get a G5 and test it out (maybe in 2005...).

Hopefully the Mackie Control will at least not mess up the UAD compatibility with the rest of my system (don't see why it should though of course that doesn't mean anything). Still waiting for that Control though -- it's been over a month since I ordered it here in Vancouver Canada, seems like an inordinately long delay. It will be sweet once they work all this out and I can actually tweak the UAD in real time with the Mackie -- heaven!

Thanks for everyone's comments. Will keep you posted if I encounter any special issues etc. (Unless my free subscription curtails my posts of course...)

mt