Following Universal Audio’s announcement, the new update to their DAW ecosystem promises to enhance the Silicon experience for those running Apple’s ever-powerful SoC technology. We have the details of its new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Universal Audio’s LUNA DAW brings recording, editing, mixing, and the company’s audio plugin ecosystem together in an integrated environment. This allows the use of UA’s DSP audio tools within a dedicated Console that will be familiar to those who grew up in the analogue era, as well as anyone else who doesn’t want to juggle interface DSP mixing with their DAW mixer. We cover UA’s v1.2 iteration here.

The latest v1.2.12 Software for Thunderbolt-equipped Macs brings new headline features, as well as numerous improvements and fixes:

New

• LUNA, LUNA Extensions, and UAD Instruments run natively on Apple M1/M2 processors

  (Note: UAD Instruments (Shape Expansion and Spitfire Audio) require updates for native Apple silicon. Check the manage page in the LUNA sidebar and update if needed.)

• Audio Quantize

• MCU Control Surface Support

• Sidechain Input

Improved

• System performance when importing or editing large amounts of MIDI data

• Double-clicking the loop region in the loop ruler now toggles loop mode

Fixed

• Resolved an issue that could prevent LUNA from relaunching UA Connect on launch

• Resolved an issue that prevented using LUNA offline after logging in previously with an iLok USB present

• Resolved an issue that could prevent LUNA from restoring with the last used window size

• Resolved an issue that could cause certain sessions to restore without the last used View settings

• Resolved an issue that could prevent saving a Waterfall B3 or Opal preset

• Resolved an issue that prevented Oxide UAD-2 plug-in user presets from appearing in the Oxide Tape preset browser

• Resolved an issue that prevented changing Oxide Tape extension presets

• Export Mixdown file names list once again responds to Command + up/down arrow keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the list

• Resolved a licensing issue that could occur when launching LUNA if the user's iLok cloud session was open on another computer

Users of LUNA on Apple Silicon can head over to Universal Audio to get their update now.