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Chapter 6: UAD Meter & Control Panel

Used by other

devices

This number displays the percentage of FireWire bus bandwidth that is used
by all the FireWire devices connected to the bus EXCEPT for UAD-2 Satellite,
such as hard drives and audio interfaces. The number is used to help deter-
mine an optimum value for the

UAD Bandwidth Allocation

parameter.

FireWire Gauge

The FireWire Gauge (

Figure 14

) reflects the FireWire bus bandwidth cur-

rently used by UAD-2 Satellite and all other FireWire peripheral devices (e.g.,
audio interfaces and hard drives). The gauge graphically displays the

UAD

Bandwidth Allocation

, the bandwidth used by active UAD-2 Satellite plug-ins,

and bandwidth used by all other devices on the bus. The FireWire Gauge in
the FireWire control panel is also displayed in the UAD Meter when UAD-2
Satellite is connected (see

Figure 7 on page 61

).

The total range of the gauge is 100%, reflecting the total available bandwidth
of the FireWire bus. The

UAD Bandwidth Allocation

is displayed in green,

UAD usage is dynamically displayed in blue, and usage by all other devices
is displayed in orange. The sum of UAD and peripheral usage is also dis-
played as a percentage of the total available bandwidth.

Important:

FireWire bandwidth is unrelated to UAD DSP loads. See

“FireWire Bandwidth vs. UAD DSP” on page 143

for details.

Info Display

This area displays helpful text about parameters in the FireWire panel. Hover
the mouse over a FireWire setting to view the informational text.

Figure 14. Elements of the UAD FireWire Gauge

Total available Firewire bus bandwidth

Available FW bandwidth (headroom)

Total allocated

bandwidth

(UAD + other

devices)

Used by

other devices

(

orange

)

Used by

UAD (

blue

)

UAD Bandwidth Allocation

(blue + green)

Available for UAD

(

green

)

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