Apollo
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UAD Essentials Edition

UAD Essentials Edition

4.5 (217)

Welcome to the sound of your favorite records.

  • Add 11 “must-have” UAD plug-ins and instruments — for one low price — no UA hardware required
  • Give analog warmth and texture to vocals, bass, synths, and more with iconic tube compressors and EQs
  • Discover the fat sound of magnetic tape on your drums, vocals, and guitars
  • Explore ambience and space on vocals and instruments with award-winning plate reverb and tape echo
  • Capture the perfect take with an easy-to-use tube channel strip featuring EQ, compression, and mic preamp
  • Experience a vintage-inspired analog synth packed with "album-ready" sounds

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

UAD Essentials Edition

$199

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Included in UAD Essentials Bundle

PolyMAX Synth

Our vintage-inspired synth gives you fat analog tones from the golden age of polysynthesis with warm, analog-modeled oscillators and filters, professional UA effects, and curated presets for any genre — for album‑ready sounds instantly.

Century Tube Channel Strip

Enhance your vocals, guitars, synths, and more with a vintage-style tube mic preamp, simple three-band EQ, and optical compressor designed to give you everything you need to capture "first take" magic.

Pultec Passive EQ Collection

Featuring three astonishingly accurate Pultec EQs that are indistinguishable from the original analog hardware, get the same silky curves used by the engineers of John Mayer, Daft Punk, and Mariah Carey, on your vocals, drums, keys and more.*

Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveler Collection

Get smooth, radio-ready vocals, guitars, and bass with three highly sought-after versions of the most famous optical tube compressor ever made — and the go-to for professional mixers worldwide.

Galaxy Tape Echo

Add subtle tape delay and colorful effects to drums, vocals, guitars, and synths with the definitive emulation of an iconic analog device used by everyone from Pink Floyd and David Bowie, to King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry.*

Pure Plate Reverb

Explore UA's revolutionary plate reverb emulation in a simple, easy-to-use plug-in and give your vocals, guitars, strings, and synths lush, satisfying ambience.

Oxide Tape Recorder

Based on our award-winning Ampex and Studer tape machine emulations, Oxide Tape Recorder gives you the warmth, presence, and vibe of professional analog tape, with simple controls, so you can easily make everything "sound like a record."

Included Plug-Ins

Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection

$299

Pure Plate Reverb

$149

Pultec Passive EQ Collection

$299

Oxide Tape Recorder

$149

Century Tube Channel Strip

$199

Galaxy Tape Echo

$199

PolyMAX Synth

$199

Verve Analog Machines Essentials

$99

Welcome to the sound of your favorite records

Get the rich analog tones heard on decades of classic albums with 12 "must-have" UAD plug-ins and instruments — for one low price — no UA hardware required.

With three versions of the legendary Teletronix LA-2A compressor, a collection of classic Pultec EQs, Oxide Tape Recorder, Verve Analog Machines Essentials, and much more — a $1,500+ in value if purchased separately — your productions will take a huge leap forward with professional analog sound.

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  • RM
    Ronald M.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 hours ago
    𝐌𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐭.

    𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞.

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    Edgard C.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
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    Good Plugins

    Great quality plugins, validations, on the other hand, bother me daily asking for authorization.

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    matthew P.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
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    Great Plug ins

    These plug ins are part of my everyday go to additions. Great purchase and I am very happy to have these in my library.

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  • SC
    S. C.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    LOVE IT

    Best plugins money can buy

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  • BH
    B. H.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    UA Essentials

    Fantastic Plug-Ins!

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware required.

No, our bundles are pre-configured and we do not offer the option to substitute plug-ins. If you own one or more of the plug-ins included in the bundle, only the licenses for the plug-ins you do not already own will be issued.

From time to time, Universal Audio will offer special upgrade pricing based on which plug-ins you already own. However, upgrade pricing may not be available for certain bundles or during certain promotions. We recommend checking your Offers page to see your current upgrade offers.

Yes – for every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both.

No. When you purchase a bundle you’ll own those plug-ins forever. If you are interested in receiving new UAD native plug-ins as they are released, check out our UAD Spark subscription.

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