UAD-1
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The UAD-1 is a PCI card with an onboard media processor 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.
A PCI card manufactured by Cambridge Audioworks.
It has 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.
