LUNA Recording System: workflow integration over feature count

Universal Audio's LUNA is worth examining through the lens of constraint-as-feature. Because it's built around Apollo hardware, the integration between monitoring, tracking, and UAD processing is unusually predictable. That predictability matters more in practice than the spec sheet suggests. When a tool's limitations are stable enough to anticipate, they become reference points rather than problems. That's the kind of friction that shows up repeatedly in producer recommendations, even when it's hard to articulate why.