Mix & Mastering Suite
Suite of six mix and mastering plug-ins designed for ultimate signal transparency.
This powerful collection of six plug-ins—Dynamics, Multiband Dynamics, Equalize, Limit, Verberate and Dither—delivers ultimate signal transparency and precision. Designed for both PC and Mac, it supports VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats, ensuring seamless integration into your workflow. Whether you're a seasoned engineer or an aspiring producer, the intuitive interface and high-quality processing tools make it easy to achieve professional-sounding results. Unleash your creativity and take your tracks to the next level with the Mix & Mastering Suite!
Dynamics is a combined compressor, expander or gate. The look-ahead can be set anywhere from 0 to 30 milliseconds and the intelligent algorithm ensures a band-limited gain signal which reduces potential distortion to a minimum even with minimal attack and release times. You can use up to 4 times oversampling to further reduce distortion. The side chain signal can be either internal or external and there’s a full blown side chain equalizer integrated with low cut, low shelf, peak, high shelf and high cut filters.
Despite the complexity of algorithm, the user interface is intuitive and provides graphical visualizations of all aspects of the processing. With the introduction of Mastering Suite 1.1, Dynamics now offers a new auto-release mode that dynamically changes the release time depending on the audio material. A new Range control makes it possible to limit the maximum gain reduction during dynamic processing. Parallel compression is easily achieved using the new Mix knob that controls the mix of processed and unprocessed audio.
Multiband Dynamics is the multiband extension of Dynamics which allows dynamic processing in up to four separate bands. You can freely set the cross-over frequencies and even the filter slopes can be set freely in the range 6 and 48 dB per octave. Multiband Dynamics operates in linear phase mode to avoid phase issues between the processed bands.
Version 1.1 introduces mixed phase filtering which reduces pre-ringing — a well-known problem with linear phase filtering. Pre-ringing smears sharp transients and thus degrades the audio quality. The new Channel Linking parameter controls how independently channels are processed.
Limit is a transparent limiter with intelligent look-ahead in the range 0 to 30 milliseconds that reduces distortion to a minimum. The limiting is performed in a two step process with a pre-compressor follower by the actual peak limiting algorithm. You can use up to 4 times oversampling for true peak limiting and to further reduce distortion. With version 1.1, the pre-compressor has a new auto-release mode that adapts the release time to the audio material.
Equalize is a parametric equalizer. Unlike other equalizers, you can freely adjust not only center frequency, gain and bandwidths, but also the filter slope for each band. The filter slope can be set anywhere from 3 dB to ultra-sharp 120 dB per octave.
You can operate Equalize as a zero latency plug-in when using the minimum phase mode, choose to preserve the phase relationships in the linear phase mode or use the unique mixed phase mode. The mixed phase mode allows you to set the latency freely in the range 5 to 120 milliseconds while preserving the phase relationships as far as possible. That gives a unique control over potential pre-ringing artifacts which is a common problem with linear phase filtering.
Acon Digital Verberate 2
When it comes to reverb, we believe it’s all about the sound quality. Verberate is an algorithmic reverb plug-in that simulates real acoustical surroundings with exceptional realism.
The first Verberate release already raised the bar, but Version 2 introduces the Vivid Hall algorithm that adds time variance to avoid the stiffness that plagues convolution-based reverbs, while preserving the natural high-density reverb tails of Verberate 1.
Dither is a dithering plug-in with flexible perceptual noise shaping. You can adjust the maximum gain and the filter length of the frequency response of the noise shaping filter is visualized graphically.
Our tutorial series show how to mix and master a commercial song using only the plug-ins included in the Acon Digital Mastering Suite along with the free Acon Digital Multiply and Acon Digital Verberate Basic spatial processors.
Up until now, I haven’t found a multi-band compressor that did what I needed or wanted, but Multiband Dynamics is what I needed, especially with a recent recording I did for a client. I can say the same thing with Limit, as it’s much better than other limiters I have used in the past.
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All examples have been normalized to -23 LUFS for a fair comparison and to demonstrate the signal transparency of the plug-ins. You can find the maximum true peak values for each snippet in the track descriptions (click View track in the list below).