Are you ready to elevate your loudness levels without compromising sound quality? Meet Lace, your ultimate weapon for achieving maximum loudness and presence in your music, keeping perfect transients and smoother low end, to craft loud tracks that sound big!
Unlike its counterparts, Lace doesn't just manage transients – it masters them. No more sacrificing richness or warmth in your mix; with Lace, every element shines through with pristine clarity and depth.
Loud, crystal-clear, analog.
Lace is the first Acqua plugin suite (VST/VST3/AAX/AU) offering a collection of sampled top-tier hardware limiters handpicked from professional audio markets, including also revered models no longer in production. It's an advanced, true peak, brick wall limiter, boosting loudness levels while maintaining pristine sound quality.
Developed after extensive research, Lace combines analog hardware and software insights from premier recording studios, ensuring transparency and accommodating various musical styles with minimal artifacts and maximum flexibility.
Your go-to limiter for all scenarios.
Lace tackles a key issue in mixing and mastering by effectively limiting and digital clipping without compromising sound quality. Traditional true peak limiters often struggle with transient management, risking attenuation or distortion, especially in low frequencies, resulting in overly bright or compressed tracks. Lace preserves everything while addressing level variations caused by slow reaction times in traditional limiters. By doing so, it ensures a balanced and consistent sound across your mix, offering the benefits of an advanced limiter without compromising integrity.
Key Features:
• Four categories of emulations: Lace offers a different selection of classic and modern limiter emulations, categorized into Disto, Smooth, Natural, and Clean, providing you with a comprehensive range of sonic options.
• True peak mode: Prevents inter-sample peaks, ensuring accurate and reliable peak management.
• Dithering bit depth modes: Five dithering options are available to minimize quantization noise during the finalization process, maintaining high audio quality.
• Advanced metering system: Lace includes RMS and LUFS metering, empowering you with precise level monitoring for effective audio mastering.
• Preamp emulations: Lace features several preamp emulations, adding character and warmth to audio signals for enhanced sonic richness.
• High-quality oversampling: Up to 16x oversampling, ensuring superior audio processing quality with perfect phase response
• Listening modes: Switch between different listening modes (Δ, LR, M, S) to analyze and fine-tune audio signals with enhanced accuracy and clarity.
• Low latency and lightness on CPU: Lace delivers low latency performance and minimal CPU usage, enabling smooth operation even in demanding production environments.
• Resizable and responsive GUI: Adjust the interface size according to your workflow needs.
• Factory presets: Lace comes with a selection of over 40 factory presets, offering a starting point for inspiring creativity in your projects
What you get
Lace includes two different GUIs to choose from:
• LACE: plugin version based on a 3D ‘Acustica’s classic-style’ GUI.
• LACE ‘Flat’: plugin version based on a 2D ‘modern-style’ GUI.
If you are an ‘analogue-lover’ you can work with Acustica’s classic style interface;
if you want to experience something never seen before here, choose the 2D modern interface (Lace Flat).
Each plug-in included in the Lace suite comes in a “Standard” version and an alternative “ZL*” version, which operates at *zero latency and is thus suitable for use when tracking at the cost of extra processing resources.
NOTE: Choose the GUI you prefer at the outset. The plugin will not automatically replicate the settings if you change the GUI at work started.
Lace | Demo.
Technical information & compatibility.
• Supported formats: VST2, VST3, AAX, and AU.
• Available sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96 kHz.
• Windows 10 and 11 compatible.
• macOS 10.15 (Catalina) to macOS 13 (Ventura) compatible.
• Intel, AMD, and ARM compatible.
• Apple Silicon native (Rosetta not supported).
Price and availability.
Lace introductory price: €89 | 53% OFF until March 25, 2024 at 11:59 pm CET (reg. price €189) Get it here!
The product is at an introductory period for the first four weeks after release or until the first official version is released; this implies that the product may receive improvements, changes, or fixes available through Aquarius Desktop updates.
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Note: Lace trial version includes 44.1 - 48 - 88.2 - 96 kHz sample rates.
Please remember that trials expire 30 days after authorization, and we strongly recommend not using trial products in commercial sessions or any important project.
User’s manual:
Lace user's manual
Lace webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/shop/products/LACE
