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Ten retro-futuristic tone machines, packed with analog magic.
Give your recordings the colorful saturation and effects heard on countless hip‑hop, lo‑fi, electronic, rock, and experimental tracks. Designed for the modern musician, beatmaker, and producer — Verve Analog Machines puts playful analog sounds right in your DAW.
Included Version
UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.
UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11.
- Add analog sound to your recordings with 10 easy-to-use machines
- Shape tones quickly with simple controls like drive, tone, and tape warble
- Give kicks, snares, and synths gritty tape textures or add tube warmth to vocals, guitar, bass, or your entire mix
- Make mixes sound instantly more expressive and alive with retro-futuristic analog sounds crafted by UA
Meet the Machines
Dive deep into all of Verve’s machines and uncover the sounds and settings that unlock magical analog tone for your mixes.
Unleash Your Creativity with 10 Magical Machines
Verve Analog Machines puts vintage sound at the ready. Giving you 10 colorful UA‑designed effects with settings that are super easy to dial in, it’s like a sandbox full of analog toys right in your DAW.
Add Some Energy to Your Modern Mixes
Need to energize drums, guitars, vocals, synths, or your whole mix? From gluey tape warmth and hi‑fi tube saturation to all‑out distorted mayhem, Verve Analog Machines makes your in‑the‑box productions sound instantly more expressive and alive.
Get Vintage Tone That’s All Your Own
Whether you seek the strange sound of thrift store tape machines, that tiny speaker effect from a vintage guitar amp, or the big-studio luster of a premium tube channel strip – Verve Analog Machines instantly levels up any mix with vibey analog color.
Sweeten
Add warmth to anything with classic reel-to-reel sound that can be gently overdriven.
Great for: Getting studio-grade tape sound on vocals, instruments, or your entire mix.
Edge
Get the effect of driving up the gain on an analog console to energize your recordings with crunchy saturation.
Great for: Bringing dull recordings to life.
Glow
Make tracks blush with rich harmonics, like the sound you get when plugging into a high-end tube preamp or channel strip.
Great for: Warming up bright or thin-sounding tracks.
Warm
An older and bolder tape machine. It’s similar to Sweeten, but with a deeper warmth and warble.
Great for: Getting tape sound with added movement.
Thicken
Hop in your time machine and explore gritty lo-fi textures from half a century ago.
Great for: Giving any track some added vibe and dimension.
Vintagize
Need a tone that’s all your own? Score thriftstore tape machine sound that’s older than your grandparents.
Great for: Making modern recordings sound old.
Distort
Get tube sound that’s been pushed to the edge, similar to driving an analog preamp a bit too hard.
Great for: Getting tracks to sound bold and exciting.
Overdrive
Tape tone like Thicken and Vintagize, but it grinds and roars even more.
Great for: Adding fuzzy tape tone to synths, guitars, drums, and more.
Fire
It’s that searing analog sound, like pouring liquid hot magma onto your track.
Great for: Adding texture to vocals and instruments.
Sputter
Need your recordings to sound broken, but in a cool way? Sputter gives you over-the-edge distorted mayhem.
Great for: Pushing tracks past their limits.
System Requirements
- macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, or Sonoma 14
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit editions)
- Intel, AMD or Apple silicon processor
- Internet connection to download software and authorize native UAD plug-ins
- Free iLok account with iLok Cloud or iLok USB (2nd generation or higher)
- Free UA Connect application for managing native UAD plug-ins
- A supported DAW compatible with VST, AU and AAX plug-in file formats.
Native UAD Instruments Requirements
- Sample-based UAD instruments require SSD storage with APFS formatting for macOS or NTFS formatting for Windows
- 1 GB to 10 GB available SSD storage per plug-in (space requirement varies per UAD Instrument). A minimum of 100 GB available storage is highly recommended.
- Individual UAD Instrument storage requirements are listed on UA Connect’s UAD Plug-Ins tab.
Notes
- Operating systems not listed above are untested. Although untested operating systems may work, they are not supported by Universal Audio.
- Pre-release and beta versions of operating systems are not supported.
- Native UAD plug-ins on Apple silicon machines automatically run natively on Apple silicon in DAWs that support native Apple silicon.
- Windows running via Bootcamp on Mac systems are not supported.
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