Acustica Audio Tiger 2023

Tiger is the first Acqua plugin suite (VST/VST3/AAX/AU) in Core 19 based on our second-generation 'Hyper' technology encompassing a superlative collection of Acustica's most renowned compressors.

Recently, we have witnessed the proliferation of software dedicated to dynamics: the trend in recent releases often focuses on overcoming the limits of analog compression while maintaining the musicality that has always distinguished it. In the latest products, sidechain management has improved with more complete equalizer chains or enhanced with simultaneous control based on independent detectors to handle transients and the sustained part of the signal. We have put together our experience to try to solve this problem according to our vision: the idea of Tiger is to put together our models and some very recent concepts to create the best possible experience for "our" users.

What is Tiger not?

Tiger is not a compressor trying to imitate a specific vintage item. The idea is to have a chameleon-like object that tries to imitate them all, overcoming the limitations of each. If you want a replica of a specific product, we certainly have a particular thing that is more relevant in our catalog. We did not include final clippers and brick-wall limiters in the signal path so as not to replicate the functionality of other products: the result would have been to complicate it unnecessarily and duplicate functionality already found elsewhere.

What You Get

Tiger includes two different GUIs to choose from:

• TIGER, TIGER MIX, TIGER MAST: plugins based on a 3D ‘Acustica’s classic-style’ GUI.
• TIGER ‘Flat’, TIGER MIX 'Flat', TIGER MAST 'Flat' & FIRE THE TIGER: plugin versions based on a 2D ‘modern-style’ GUI.

If you are an 'analogue-lover', you can work with Acustica's classic style interface; if you want to experience something never seen before here, choose the 2D modern interface(Tiger flat, Tiger Mix flat & Tiger Mast flat).