Acon Digital Mastering Suite

Acon Digital Mastering Suite母帶處理套件Acon Digital Mastering Suite 由五個用於音訊母帶處理的插件組成，旨在實現最終的訊號透明度。 Acon Digital Mastering Suite 可作為 Windows 和 Mac 的 VST、VST3 或 AAX 或適用於 Mac 的 AU 插件。 Windows 有 32 位元和 64 位元版本。 Mac 版本是 64 位，可在 ARM（例如Apple M1）和 Intel 處理器上本機運作。

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.