Universal Audio has been working on LUNA for over a year. The illustrious company known for their unparalleled analog hardware, UAD line of interfaces and plugins unveiled that the mysterious LUNA was the companies first DAW at NAAM 2020. I had seen advertisements on the internet and in Tape op magazine for months before I knew what it was. To be completely honest I thought they were going to be unveiling some kind of new digitally controlled tape machine but I was wrong. Universal Audio boasts LUNA’s deep Apollo interface integration with zero latency while using the UA plugins during recording. In a world of DAWs this is very important. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I started messing around with a plugin after an artist did a take only to be greeted with horrible latency when they wanted to punch in a word or two. LUNA’s interface bears some resemblance to other DAWs but to me feels a bit more inspiring like Ableton. I really like that some of the shortcuts that I am used to using in Pro Tools also translate to LUNA. In the same vain similar editing concepts also exist. After downloading LUNA I imported some tracks from a session I knew very well. This was a song from a record I had recorded and mixed in the fall that had just been released. I wanted to test out the mixing workflow. I started without watching any of the tutorial videos that are easily accessible right in LUNA. I was able to work for quite some time without getting stuck not knowing how to do something. I had a lot of fun working in LUNA, I don’t think it’ll replace Pro Tools for me but I can see myself using it for pre production, or a situation where Im doing a mobile recording with just my Apollo. Let me know your experiences and thoughts about LUNA!