In the case of purely electronic music, it will only really make a difference with analog synth, but the amount of connection might not be enough if you have several hardware synthesisers. Soundwise it is as good as it can possibly get, with zero noise whatsoever, and the analog sound processing clearing shows when recording/listening to voices or instruments such as guitars. My only negative feeling is going towards the face buttons, honestly not very clear in their function, and some of them I just never really figured out what the hell they do. The handling is great, connections are easy to access, the UAD control panel is very straight forward and switching between headphone/speaker is easy and fast. More dramatically, the MkII has been granted a massive boost to the onboard DSPs. If we except the slightly too stiff and clicky face buttons, the whole device is made of metal, the connections are extremely solid (the power socket even has a lock system to avoid accidental removal) and the main knob is just great. Together with its included bundle of UAD analog emulation plug-ins which you can track through in real time with UAD-2 SOLO, DUO or QUAD Core processing.
I'll try to make it short and useful but there is so much to say !įirst of all the build quality is purely off the charts.