Acustica Audio Ivory5. Adding exciting features and a new mastering limiter to your arsenal

[Acustica Community]

IVORY5 is a VST/AAX/AU plug-in suite which includes 2 equalizers, 2 compressors, 2 dynamic equalizers, and the latest new entry, a powerful Limiter.

Each of these modules has been carefully crafted with the goal of building a set of awesome-sounding, mastering-grade tools. Ivory5 is a transparent yet extremely musical processors suite that shines on just about everything you throw it on.

Whether you are a mastering engineer, looking for the utmost grade of control in the studio, or you are mixing and producing your next big hit - and you need powerful, versatile tools for shaping your subgroups - Ivory has you covered.



The IVORY5 suite consists of 7 separate Acqua plug-ins, each with a gorgeous graphical user interface that allows for easy and quick operation.

This bundle includes:

- IVORY5 EQ
- IVORY5 EQ STEREO
- IVORY5 COMP 1B
- IVORY5 COMP 3B
- IVORY5 DYN EQ
- IVORY5 DYN EQ STEREO
- IVORY5 LIMITER (NEW)



What's New in this fifth version?
Ivory5 adding exciting new features and a new powerful emulation to your arsenal.

We upgraded it with:

-A new SOA control added in the Ivory Dyn EQ (and also in the Stereo Version).
-All preamps 'fine-tuned' according to the latest standards.
-Improvements in terms of CPU resources consumption.
-And last but not least, a new powerful Mastering Limiter.


Ivory 5 MAL-2, the Ultimate Mastering Limiter:

Ivory5 MAL-2 is Acustica's own interpretation of a two-band peak limiter inspired by a famous mastering dynamic processor from a well-known British manufacturer. Don't be fooled, it is not a 1:1 copy of the hardware, so don't expect the same behaviour!
It's the perfect choice to control the highest peaks in your music program if inserted at the end of the audio chain in the most traditional way, but it can also be used as an extreme tone-shaping tool on individual tracks.
To use both limiters you need to turn HF ON; this enables a crossover at 2kHz that splits the incoming signal into two bands, allowing you to work separately on different portions of the spectrum (LF and HF). When HF ON is bypassed, then the processor becomes a classic wide-band limiter. More info in the User's manual.

Ivory5 web page: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/products/ivory

[jamcat]

There’s already a VST called Ivory. I’m surprised if Synthogy’s lawyers haven’t been in contact yet.

https://www.synthogy.com/index.php/prod ... and-pianos

[escalona]

There is also a certain material, white and hard, that exist in certain animals' teeth and tusks... mother nature's lawyers should also know about this.

[dionenoid]

Thanx for the update

[dionenoid]

While the limiter sounds nice, it's really hard to get it working properly as the gain for the HF limiter is just not enough. The input gain seems to do nothing to help this. On many sources you can't even get it to do any work at all.
It's also weird that the gain for pushing into the limiter is bigger as the gain for reducing the selected band.

Is it something that can be fixed ? I cannot see many uses for it this way.

Overall, pretty solid update.

[Acustica Community]

While the limiter sounds nice, it's really hard to get it working properly as the gain for the HF limiter is just not enough. The input gain seems to do nothing to help this. On many sources you can't even get it to do any work at all.
It's also weird that the gain for pushing into the limiter is bigger as the gain for reducing the selected band.

Is it something that can be fixed ? I cannot see many uses for it this way.

Overall, pretty solid update.

This is the suggested way of use: first, choose between one or two-band operations, then adjust the threshold control(s) until you reach the desired amount of gain reduction, as displayed by each GR meter (the threshold control practically behaves as an input control into the limiting stage).
Next, if you're operating in two-band mode, you may have to re-balance the signal's frequency spectrum by adjusting the LF and HF Level controls for each band.
Finally, the Output Level control is placed after all the limiting stages. When that control is set at 0 (central position), the default maximum level is -0.2 dBFS. Accordingly, you may select any different maximum output level by adjusting the Output control.

[sl1200mk2]

Nice overview and workflow demo for the limiter:

[dblock]

There’s already a VST called Ivory. I’m surprised if Synthogy’s lawyers haven’t been in contact yet.

https://www.synthogy.com/index.php/prod ... and-pianos

Synthogy’s lawyers haven’t been in contact because they would lose. Copyright protection does not cover titles.