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Acustica Audio intros Black: the FREE gain-staging tools for authentic analog sound.

Wednesday July 28, 2021. 03:42 PM , from Gearslutz
Product: Black

Developer: Acustica Audio

Price (MSRP): FREE - Download and authorize it via Aquarius!

Plug-in Format(s): VST, AU, AAX

System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10

System Requirements (OSX): OSX 10.14

Black web-page: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store...ua/tools/black

Black User's manual: https://app.box.com/shared/static/uf...g8hmmh6yxc.pdf

About Black

Black is an Acqua plug-in suite made of two FREE players that focus heavily on Gain Staging:

a standard version ('BLACK') and a "Pro-Oriented" version ('BLACK GURU'). Both plug-ins are available in the following formats: VST, VST3, AU, and AAX.

When designing Black we had in mind to offer you two simple and easy to use players that would bring to life our preamp emulations and at the same time handle filtering and saturation intuitively.

Black will give you the best tools for gain staging in the digital domain by quickly finding the best gain levels possible while keeping the source in the optimal range and distortion levels under control.

What you get

Black includes:

1- Black: FREE player - Standard version, it includes a default emulation bank ('Navy Geranium').

2- Black ‘Guru’: FREE player - Pro-oriented version, this plug-in is an advanced ‘extra’ version, featuring additional fine-tuning controls, it also includes the default emulation bank ('Navy Geranium').

What's the idea behind Black?

The basic concept behind BLACK is to recreate in the digital domain the warm and tone-rich feeling that an analog setup can deliver.

Samples and recordings are usually distributed with 0dbFs, while user set processors require an operational level of around -18dbFs.

So as per any analog mixer, before mixing a take, it is crucial to set a correct amount of pre-amplification to your signal since the rest of the chain depends on it.

So, with that said, you should consider Black as the first plug-in suite to add to the channels of your DAW: just set the Input signal level using both the meters and the overflow led.

By increasing the input gain, you will also affect harmonic distortion, just like on a real mixer.

Then you could use the filters to eliminate any rumble and useless content in the top end and then fiddle with the different pre-amplifications until you find the one you like most that add the best coloring to your source.

By taking advantage of the numerous emulations, you will recreate that non-linearity characteristic of those deep and open mixes, just like on a real analog piece of equipment.

Thanks to the contribution of the sound engineer and producer Alex Trecarichi (www.alextrecarichi.it), an invaluable collaborator of Acustica Audio in producing this project, the Acustica team is very proud to release this high-performance yet easy-to-use plug-in suite.

IMPORTANT: The Black plug-in suite, due to the way it is designed and is used (to achieve good gain staging), does not follow the usual Acustica convention of using an input level of -18 dBfs = 0 dBu. To understand what your optimum level is, please use the overflow led and meter indicators. More details are in the User's manual.

Additional commercial banks/libraries are available in several 'Volumes' on our store. To stay constantly updated about new Volumes, we recommend you to keep an eye on our website.

Black - Volume A

Black - Volume A is an additional Volume for Black.

Black Volume A includes 10 different emulations of pre-amplifications of vintage and modern consoles for a total value of over 100K.

IMPORTANT: It is mandatory that Black is installed on your computer for the additional volumes to be used.

Product: Black Volume A

Price (MSRP): Introductory price €69 (€99) - Save 30% OFF - For the first four weeks after release or until first official version is released.

Plug-in Format(s): VST, AU, AAX

System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10

System Requirements (OSX): OSX 10.14

Black Vol. A web-page:

Black Vol. A User's manual: https://app.box.com/shared/static/9y...cih9n2mm1w.pdf

NOTE:

To facilitate the understanding of each emulation, when possible, we have chosen compound names that include a clear reference to the released Acqua plug-in. This should aid in the identification of the original sampled unit.

None of the preamp emulations in Black's 'Additional Volumes' are part of an already released product, so they are samples of different hardware models than those in the plug-in suites currently released by Acustica.

What you get

1) Big Ceil - Ivy 828

2) Brown - Cade BC-7A

3) Camel - Flax Lily

4) Cobalt - Lombardy Poplar 1

5) Coffee - Arabica

6) Navy – Germanium

7) Pimelea White Solitaire

8) Taupe - Starwort 3200

9) Taupe - Starwort GP1

10) Taupe - Swiss Chard 69

Black - Volume B

Black - Volume B is an additional Volume for Black.

Second 'Additional Volume' for Black plug-in suite. It includes 10 different emulations of pre-amplifications of vintage and modern consoles for a total value of over 100K.

IMPORTANT: It is mandatory that Black is installed on your computer for the additional volumes to be used.

Product: Black Volume B

Price (MSRP): Introductory price €69 (€99) - Save 30% OFF - For the first four weeks after release or until the first official version is released.

Plug-in Format(s): VST, AU, AAX

System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10

System Requirements (OSX): OSX 10.14

Black Vol. B web-page:

Black Vol. B User's manual: https://app.box.com/shared/static/gy...uowyqzldi8.pdf

NOTE:

To facilitate the understanding of each emulation, when possible, we have chosen compound names that include a clear reference to the released Acqua plug-in. This should aid in the identification of the original sampled unit.

None of the preamp emulations in Black's 'Additional Volumes' are part of an already released product, so they are samples of different hardware models than those in the plug-in suites currently released by Acustica.

What you get

1) Aubrieta 024

2) Blond - Azalea NT-83

3) Cobalt - Lombardy Poplar 2

4) Honey - Liverwort

5) Phormium Joker

6) Pink - Jasmine 08

7) Rain Lily LN2

8) Taupe - Japanese Tea 3

9) Taupe - Japanese Tea M208

10) Taupe - Tulip 636

How to download, install, and authorization the Black and Additional Volumes (Commercials):

To install Black's additional Volumes correctly, it is mandatory to download the Black (Channel-strip) first.

In the Aquarius application, Black comes as a single item that includes Black (Channel strip) and Black Guru (Channel strip).

- Create a user account (if you do not have one yet) on our website

- Download and Install Aquarius, our products manager, for either Mac or PC

- Log in to the Aquarius application using your username (email) and password.

- Click on the purchased page, and scroll down until you find Black (Channel strip).

- Select the correct plug-in format for the installation from the drop-down menu.

- The Aquarius application will download, install, and authorize the commercial product automatically.

- Click on the purchased page, and scroll down until you find Black Volume ‘X*’ (Channel strip)

- Click on the install button.

- Select the correct plug-in format for the installation from the drop-down menu.

- The Aquarius application will download, install, and authorize the commercial product automatically.

- Repeat the operation for the libraries you want to install.

How to download, install, and authorize Black and Additional Volumes (Trials):

- Create a user account (if you do not have one yet) on our website

- Download and Install Aquarius, our products manager, for either Mac or PC

- Log in to Aquarius using your user email and password

- Click on the purchased page, and scroll down until you find Black (Channel strip).

- Select the correct plug-in format for the installation from the drop-down menu.

- The Aquarius application will download, install, and authorize the commercial product automatically.

- Type the product name in the 'search' field inside Aquarius to find the '(trial)' version of the Additional Volume, then click on the thumbnail or on the 'Install' button. This will take you to the product page (the trial version of a product is also visible in the 'related products' section on the right)

- Select the right plug-in format according to the DAW you are using and click 'Install'

- Aquarius will download, install,and authorise the Black Volume ‘X*’ (Channel strip) automatically.

- Run your DAW. You're set!

*->conventional alphabetic letter, an example that identifies any letter of the corresponding Black Commercial-Trial library/additional Volume.

For further info and explanation of each emulation, please take a look at the Black and the Black - Volume A User manuals.

Please note:

- For more details about installation/authorization, please refer to the following page: Acustica Audio - Professional Audio Software - Acustica Audio

- Available sample rates: 44.1 - 48 - 88.2 - 96 kHz

- CORE 17

- M1 compatible
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