Acustica is pleased to introduce Aquamarine3, based on CORE8. Upgraded from Murano Compressor developed as a high end mastering unit and equipped with powerful features:

• The first compressor is a smooth and warm sounding Opto style compressor. Simple to use with just a threshold and gain make up, it is great at effortlessly controlling dynamic range and to and finesse the signal.

• The second compressor is a Discrete VCA style which is punchy and can really grab a signal.It can go from a subtle 1.2:1 ratio for gentle control and transient preserving compression, to a savage ‘Flood’ overlimit, to be used for creative compression effects. The Discrete VCA has controllable timings to suit many situations and with digital technology the attack time has been improved to reach almost zero with very low aliasing.

• The compressor section also features a high pass filter to control the compressors response to bass frequencies and a mix control which builds on the original unit’s functionality by providing onboard parallel compression without the complication of aux tracks.

• One of the exciting new features that is new to software is what we call “ShMod”. This is an adjustable shape control for the attack behavior of the Discrete compressor.

• Another innovative feature that also exponentially increases the versatility of this compressor is the Look-ahead. The input signal is split, and one side is delayed. The non-delayed signal is used to drive the compression of the delayed signal, which then appears at the output. This way a smooth-sounding slower attack rate can be used to catch transients.

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