Acustica - Titanium Multiband Compressor

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In a nutshell
Titanium is the very first multiband compressor of it's kind in the sampled plugin audio market. Acustica Audio, in a move that is bold even for a vanguard company like them, has sampled one and is now bringing it to you in the form of a ground-breaking and great sounding Acqua plugin.
Compared to more traditional compressors, there are very few multiband compressors available, both hardware and software. Of the software plugins available, none are based on sampling, and none come close to the sound of Titanium.
AU64bit finally available!

Overview
Titanium is based on the exciting new compressor technology that uses:
a new extremely fast engine;
newly developed envelope followers that make possible performance and functionality unheard of in Nebula/Acqua until now;
a new tech for modeling the envelope follower shape.
The Titanium suite is made up of 3 separate Acqua plugins that have gorgeous graphical user interfaces that enable easy and quick parameter changes (and are fun to look at!): the main plugin is a 3 band multiband, but also included in the bundle are a 2 band plugin that has the mid and high frequency bands, and a single band compressor that can be used more like a typical compressor. All 3 of these powerful compressor plugins are included at one amazing and affordable price!
Titanium is not like any plugin you have ever used, and after so much work and passion we have put into this, we at Acustica Audio are very proud of this release. We hope that you enjoy using this in your audio projects as much as we loved making it.

[David Else]

I think you guys are going to like this

[djscorb]

Looks great and I particularly like the choice to release it as three separate plugins including a single wide band version.

I will likely pick this up sometime in the new year. I absolutely have to suspend all GAS for the moment haha!

After reading bmanic's praises for the Acqua line I am tempted to try one of the EQs too.

Cheers

Scorb

[Fritze]

Demo?

[Zaphod (giancarlo)]

we'll create a demo asap - for amber and for titanium

[Fritze]

we'll create a demo asap - for amber and for titanium

Cool!

[andiw]

Here's a video with some Acqua plugins including Titanium:

[lacandon]

Here's a video with some Acqua plugins including Titanium:

Just seen it hm this thing its not game changer its the game itself !
Great work i finally can give up my ideas on spending for the real deal!

[Robmobius]

Acoustica is my new heroine, I can't stop buying their unbelievably good vsts.

[cfanyc]

Here's a video with some Acqua plugins including Titanium:

thanks for posting this.

I have an observation and a question. There is a
whopping 12db drop in volume when the dry signal
plays (between 7.55 and 8.09). This is the only dry
part of the whole file that i can see.

Is it at all possible to post a 1 minute stretch of the dry audio
and then the exact same segment run through amber+titanium and
volume compensated so that we can see what exactly it
does to the sound? If you post this I will be happy to process
the same dry audio through other chains and post results
so we can have a nice basis for comparison and showcase for what the nebula technology can do versus algo plugins for example.

[andiw]

Here's another video with Amber + Titanium:

Is it at all possible to post a 1 minute stretch of the dry audio
and then the exact same segment run through amber+titanium and
volume compensated so that we can see what exactly it
does to the sound? If you post this I will be happy to process
the same dry audio through other chains and post results
so we can have a nice basis for comparison and showcase for what the nebula technology can do versus algo plugins for example.

No, sorry, I'm not an audio scientist. The video shows what I wanted to show ...

[AC222]

This looks awesome and the demo sounds awesome from the video. It seems like an incredible useful tool, especially for widening the mix.

It's too bad that I'm not good yet with mb compression yet. Are there any good tutorials that cover when to use mb compression and common techniques? I've seen some amateur stuff on youtube with guys doing mb compression with ozone and they act like they are teaching something but in reality just making the mix sound even more mangled and destroying all the dynamics. Seems like a powerful tool in the right hands but a lot of people doing mb compression either don't know what they are doing or have poor technique.

So far, I've been making do with what I have already and trying to mix as best as possible without mb compression. I could definitely see mb compression being extremely handy in dance music even though I suppose mb compression is not supposed to be genre-specific.

[Zaphod (giancarlo)]

we are creating a sort of book
Andrea Zanini, a mastering engineer, is helping us in this complex task.
I used extensively multiband compressors in the past and it is pretty easy.

In general you start using a common setting on all bands.
Than you go in each band, mute other ones and you start analyzing attack and release times and maybe you change a bit ratio and threshold. Depending on the band you need maybe a longer attack and release. So you don't loose for example the bottom drum breathing or the snare drum attack.

You should match input/output in each band (meters help a lot) so you don't have a change of levels.

On hardware everything is a bit more complex because you cannot mute bands. So you start from a the same sttings on all bands and than you change the one you are interested into.

[cfanyc]

Here's another video with Amber + Titanium:

Is it at all possible to post a 1 minute stretch of the dry audio
and then the exact same segment run through amber+titanium and
volume compensated so that we can see what exactly it
does to the sound? If you post this I will be happy to process
the same dry audio through other chains and post results
so we can have a nice basis for comparison and showcase for what the nebula technology can do versus algo plugins for example.

No, sorry, I'm not an audio scientist. The video shows what I wanted to show ...

Oh, boy.

Under normal circumstances the reply is no problem, post whatever you like, of course.
But the fact of the matter is that your video is more misleading than illuminating.

What the video shows is confirming the #1 auditory bias in the book: louder sounds better. In this case the dry is 12+ db less than wet so the wet (ie titanium+amber) will sound vastly better.
Moreover there is no comparison to non nebula alternatives.

If Titanium is such an amazing improvement in ITB compression and amber in ITB eq then surely we can put it side by side with a few algo compressors and eq plugins for everyone to hear the difference. I offered to do ALL the hard work if you would give just spend 1 minute to post a dry version of a fragment of the files you keep posting in this and other boards.

Like you said the video shows what you wanted to show but what you wanted to show seems (based on your
answer) to be the quasi-religious belief in the merits of amber+titanium without the benefit of comparators, OR proper AB setup. As a result what the video shows is hugely biased material, ultimately of limited value to everyone but the faithful.

[andiw]

This video shows my workflow. If you have a different workflow, that's ok with me.

If you're so upset after watching my videos then please do not watch them!