I heard back from the support folks at Universal Audio on the 8-core MacPro issue. This is their response:
“We still warn users against the use of the UAD1e in the 8 core systems running Logic as the host application. There has not been any fix offered in the UAD v5.* software for UAD1e…only a fix for the ‘spinning beachball’ problem noted in the UAD2.”
So there you have it.
My take? I’m still digging the card even with the increase in instability that accompanies instantiation of a UAD plug-in. The instability is not major for me as I run DP mostly; it’s just notably more than before. I can work around it for now.
The UAD2 seems to not have this problem. Hmmm……
