Which means a user might be lucky if he can open 4 or 5 stereo instances, on an octo card. Unless you tell me the uad code can't access 2 dsps at once. Anyway, 8 stereo instances max on an octo 1700 euros card. That's a little too much, for me.
Anyway, at 300-400 euros each plug, these cards are definitely sold for the studio owners, or a few other guys who can spend 2000 euros per week. And will those pros work or protools, at 44khz 16bit? Lol, UAD, LOL @ your instance chart. Ex: Instances count mono/stereo. At 44.1 16bit.
Solo Duo Quad Octo Manley Massive Passive EQ (STD & MST) 37.1% 60.2% 2 /1 4/ 2 8/4 16/8 @48khz 24bit, we can easily divide those numbers by 2. Which means a user might be lucky if he can open 4 or 5 stereo instances, on an octo card. Unless you tell me the uad code can't access 2 dsps at once. Anyway, 8 stereo instances max on an octo 1700 euros card. That's a little too much, for me. Anyway, at 300-400 euros each plug, these cards are definitely sold for the studio owners, or a few other guys who can spend 2000 euros per week. And will those pros work or protools, at 44khz 16bit?