Acustica Cerise channel strip FREE until Feb 14

[dvdrtldg]

https://www.acustica-audio.com/store

Another cool plugin from Acustica, this one modeled on some vintage British transformer-based channel strip or other. Features M/S stereo spread, EQ, compressor, mic preamp

Like all Acustica plugins Cerise is pretty CPU hungry, but the sound is excellent - subtle but smooth, worth it if you've got the horsepower

[arqui]

Exellent!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[miscend]

Looks excellent thanks. My only issue with AA plug-ins is that they are CPU hogs.

[dvdrtldg]

My only issue with AA plug-ins is that they are CPU hogs.

They really are, but I was reading something about how they use some sort of process where analogue hardware is sampled and then rendered inside the plugin. No idea how it works exactly, sounds maybe a little like the way a convolution reverb works. Anyway, hence the CPU load, and also the size of the thing itself, this one is +600MB. But I've got a few Acustica plugins now and they're all really impressive

Edit: actually I've been playing with this one for a few hours now, and it seems like the CPU hit isn't as bad as some of their other plugins. And the hi end & saturation are niiiiiiiiiiiice

[miscend]

Edit: actually I've been playing with this one for a few hours now, and it seems like the CPU hit isn't as bad as some of their other plugins. And the hi end & saturation are niiiiiiiiiiiice

Yeah now that I've checked it out the CPU hit is low for an AA plugin. The saturation is really good too.

[Kalm]

I'm actually finishing a short video demoing Cerise on a lead vocal as we speak.

[MarkTarlton]

Is anyone else experiencing a lot of latency?

bypassing makes it glitch out for a couple seconds, it also happens on another plug in I got for free from them.

[hurricane]

Is anyone else experiencing a lot of latency?

bypassing makes it glitch out for a couple seconds, it also happens on another plug in I got for free from them.

Make sure you're using the low latency version if you want to play it live.

[Kalm]

Is anyone else experiencing a lot of latency?

bypassing makes it glitch out for a couple seconds, it also happens on another plug in I got for free from them.

That's the nature of their plugins. The more they update their CORE technology the better it gets, but essentially the plugin is cycling through libraries of impulses so a delay is inevitable. You can read about the technology on their website or in their manuals.

[Boombastix]

They use long convolutions, so the lag/latency is the nature of this beast, and when you bypass it will always be a recovery time. In their newer generation I believe they add normal DSP with dynamic convolution, that is why the have nice sound but are DSP heavy, big latency, big downloads, knobs that have fixed positions (ie changing the convolution). So, good and bad with this approach.