Universal Audio’s Vice President of Technology and Chief Architect, Dave Tremblay, has moved to Apple as Senior Manager - Audio Systems.

Dave Tremblay, was until recently responsible for leading Platform and Research projects, in addition to general oversight of how Universal Audio designed and built products. He had been with the company for nearly a decade, and during this time some of the most innovative hardware and software products were created by Universal Audio.

Previous to his time at UA, he was at Avid responsible for plugin architecture where he headed up the development and transition to AAX. As the architect of AAX, Avid's audio plug-in platform, he was responsible for the design and implementation of the platform as well as the porting of all Avid's plug-in portfolio. In that capacity, he functioned as a technical lead for three development teams in addition to writing a lot of code. He was also one of the founding team at audio technology company Sonoma Wire Works.

Dave is not only smart, but also a really great guy. No details are given as to the work he will be doing at Apple, however his new title is Senior Manager - Audio Systems. This could cover a number of areas for Apple, including hardware and software.

Given the challenge Univeral Audio has to re-engineer a more modern solution to their current SHARC based audio interfaces, the loss of someone like Dave Tremblay must be disappointing for them. They have made some transitions into non-DSP audio interfaces and untethered plug-ins with their SPARK offer, however neither are alternatives to the flagship products that gave UAD the edge and reputation in the past.