The UAD stuff does sound good, I've used most of their plugins, but I'd rather not get into that ecosystem.
Firstly because of cost, secondly I have already too many plugins and lastly because I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible.
I come from a pretty big hybrid system, really cool stuff, but I'm at a point where I feel like I can do as much with way less and I find that motivating.
Regarding the Apogee, can anyone confirm the integration with Logic?
I'm mostly interested in having direct monitoring with active sends but it's a bit confusing on Apogee's website.