Any suggestions regarding to Acustica Audio?

[The_Ogre]

They have Black Friday sales now, they had better sales prices in the past, though

Still good prices, but if I recall, last year was even better! And I can't say for previous years, as I started to know Acustica since late 2020.

[InTheBox]

For what it's worth, AA takes a lot of criticism. Lots of personal beefs appear to be going on that sound more like personal choice differences than critical issues with the software. I've followed AA since it's inception, through the early 2000's. I'm in the group that loves a tool that gets my small studio closer to sounding like professional studio stacked with delicious hardware. Have I achieved it. Probably not, but I certainly like the colors, tones, and character I get from my AA collection. And these tools enhance my studio hardware. I also love most of my UA, Klaghelm, Ik Multimedia, and PA VST plugins. I feel spoiled for choice. The music industry has come so far and given us so much improvement. I am thankful to AA, and all 3rd party Nebula developers, and all the vst developers for making my studio a 1000 times better than it was just 10 years ago.

[plexuss]

For what it's worth, AA takes a lot of criticism. Lots of personal beefs appear to be going on that sound more like personal choice differences than critical issues with the software.

Good observation, and I am one of those. I *can't stand* how Giancarlo represents hismself. His posts usually disgust me because they are so narrow minded and rigid. But I have most of their products and use them and enjoy using them as long as I can ignore the deficiencies and quirks and bugs. But Zaphod.... no. That guy is in my bad books for sure because of his close mindedness, rigidity and obfuscation.

[Scotty]

There are more worthy comparisons than Universal Audio plugins , several don't model saturation/non linearities at all.

As a UAD user these AA plugs just don't appeal. Were way too clunky when I tried them (admitedly quite some time back). If there are any benefits in sound, I think these would also be minimal.

UAD saves cpu usage leaving my PC free to run many other heavy plug ins, AA appears to be a major cpu user. UAD rock solid. AA seems flaky.

I think their concept of 'dynamic convolution' is a really good one. it's really a shame they never seems to have been able to get on board the right engineers to really build a decent product with all that entails e.g running smoothly on all apps, good install and update mechanisms, support.

I think it might have a use case if I were a mastering engineer, potentially they have a few models that could help on a more limited 2 bus. Not for me in a mixing situation though...

[briefcasemanx]

There are more worthy comparisons than Universal Audio plugins , several don't model saturation/non linearities at all.

As a UAD user these AA plugs just don't appeal. Were way too clunky when I tried them (admitedly quite some time back). If there are any benefits in sound, I think these would also be minimal.

UAD saves cpu usage leaving my PC free to run many other heavy plug ins, AA appears to be a major cpu user. UAD rock solid. AA seems flaky.

I think their concept of 'dynamic convolution' is a really good one. it's really a shame they never seems to have been able to get on board the right engineers to really build a decent product with all that entails e.g running smoothly on all apps, good install and update mechanisms, support.

I think it might have a use case if I were a mastering engineer, potentially they have a few models that could help on a more limited 2 bus. Not for me in a mixing situation though...

And some of them model saturation / non-linearities better than any other plugin...

[motomotomoto]

dont buy them

[Scotty]

My statement " several don't model saturation/non linearities at all" is definitely true. I can't find any evidence that suggests Universal Audio " saturation / non-linearities better than any other plugin..."

I have my share of of Universal Audio Software and some hardware units as well. I have two quads, two duos, two solos and an Apollo interface split across two groups in my UA account. I am not anti- Universal Audio I am just pointing out if you are looking for a comparator to help gauge Acoustica Audio's approach you need to be at least selective.

There are more worthy comparisons than Universal Audio plugins , several don't model saturation/non linearities at all.

As a UAD user these AA plugs just don't appeal. Were way too clunky when I tried them (admitedly quite some time back). If there are any benefits in sound, I think these would also be minimal.

UAD saves cpu usage leaving my PC free to run many other heavy plug ins, AA appears to be a major cpu user. UAD rock solid. AA seems flaky.

I think their concept of 'dynamic convolution' is a really good one. it's really a shame they never seems to have been able to get on board the right engineers to really build a decent product with all that entails e.g running smoothly on all apps, good install and update mechanisms, support.

I think it might have a use case if I were a mastering engineer, potentially they have a few models that could help on a more limited 2 bus. Not for me in a mixing situation though...

And some of them model saturation / non-linearities better than any other plugin...