UAD-1
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The UAD-1 is a digital signal processor (DSP) card sold by Universal Audio, designed to allow audio plug-ins to be used without using the host computer's CPU to process effects. This enables to user to utilize accurate, but processor-intensive, reverbs, eq's, compressors, limiters, and the like in real time.
UAD-1 hardware is available in these versions:
UAD-1 - a PCI card
UAD-1e - a PCI Express card
UAD-Xpander - a desktop unit connected via ExpressCard, designed for laptop systems
The UAD-1 DSP hardware features an MPACT 2 processor which is a 125 MHz, graphics, audio and video media processor, used primarily for AGP graphics cards and hardware DVD decoding in 1997.
The 3d functions are hard-wired on the chip.
Xenon Microsystems (later named Chromatic Research) Chromatic Mpact 2 Video Adapter.
Chromatic Research was acquired by ATI Technologies, November 1998.
