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API Vision Black Friday pricing is $59, 60% off, until Nov 30, 2026, on Universal Audio's API Vision Channel Strip Collection, a channel strip plugin built around API's flagship analog console.
The maker says it gives you more authentic API tone than the original 2013 release, with switchable EQ modules and a modeled output section. It also carries the console's compression, gating and filter modules.
You can run it on any soundcard, Mac or PC.
It is a channel strip plugin for tracking and mixing. Universal Audio released the first API Vision Channel Strip plugin in 2013, and this collection is the updated version.
The maker points to API desks as the sound behind records like Stevie Wonder's Innervisions and Radiohead's In Rainbows.
The strip is made up of these modules:
The preamp section also has a Mic/Line switch, a dedicated cut filter and a -6 dB line pad, the same features as API's Vision Console.
The 225L compressor is described as working on any instrument and any genre, from a single track to a whole mix. The "New" and "Old" functions give two flavors of compression, from mild to severe.
The 235L gate is ultra-fast. Use it to shape ambience and attack on sources like kick drums or bass synth, or to clamp down on drum kit rattle and guitar amp noise.
The 215L filters are meant for broad-stroke EQ sculpting while keeping the source's original tone.
Your purchase includes two versions:
If you track through an Apollo, Unison technology adds bi-directional control between the plugin and your Apollo's mic preamps. That brings in the impedance, gain stage sweet spots and circuit behaviors of the 212L.
The collection also ships with artist presets from Joe Chiccarelli, Neil Dorfsman, David Isaac and others.
Yes. The API Vision Channel Strip Collection from Universal Audio is 60% off at $59, with the deal ending Nov 30, 2026. Both the UAD Native and the Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions come with your purchase.
You get the 212L preamp, the 550L parametric and 560L graphic EQs, the 225L compressor, the 235L Noise Gate/Expander and the 215L Hi and Lo pass filters. Artist presets from Joe Chiccarelli, Neil Dorfsman and David Isaac are included too.
Yes. The UAD Native version runs on a Mac or PC without any UA hardware, and the plugin works with any soundcard. Apollo owners also get the Apollo Realtime version, which runs accelerated and adds Unison preamp control.
It switches between two EQ modules: the 550L 4-band parametric EQ and the 560L series 10-band graphic EQ. The graphic EQ is new in this updated collection, so one strip covers both approaches to shaping a source.
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