Acustica intros Sienna: ‘The’ headphone mixing plugin you were waiting for
by AcusticaSupport   18th March 2021

Sienna's size is due to the many emulations (sampling) of both the rooms and the controls and modifications of the same for 44, 48.1, 88.2, and 96 kHz.

Then it would be great to have an option to only install the sample rates that we actually use. For example, I only ever use 48Khz.

Yes, this has been requested before, although technically, it is quite complex to implement, and some inexperienced users would find problems (for example, forgetting to install a sample pack, as has already happened with some products that had it separately); perhaps it can be implemented in the future.

Make it smaller and more CPU friendly = super good product

I can't argue with that

Hi. Just got Sienna and my befuddled 70-year-old brain can't work out one thing. WHen I've got my mix/master right (using Sienna), should I turn it off when I render the mix?
Sorry to be so dumb.

yes, sienna and reference/referencepro disable when you render your mix/master

I’m sorry but this can’t be true. it takes forever to load a room. So it does it from disk. Correct? Then it doesn’t explain the extreme cpu usage. Only the rest of the coding could explain why it is so heavy. And the absolutely huge gui image file sizes etc is an indication that the people coding your software needs a good spanking.

The ”size” you are talking about is only download size or disk space. Not cpu usage or ram size. I don’t care about the disk space. I care about that despite me having a beast of a machine, Sienna is reducing my avaliable cpu power by half a core give or take. That is insane!

The only crazy thing is what they write here. It's outrageous how they insult the AA company, even though they apparently lack any understanding of technical issues.

Hello, I've been waiting for the profile for NDH 30 for a year. Has this project been discontinued?

Sienna is still being maintained, and while that particular headphone hasn't been modeled yet, we continue to receive requests to add more models to the more than 200 already supported.

The project has not been discontinued. The project is not a "project"; is a plugin Acustica has long moved from. Here is Harman profile for NDH 30: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/int3k...tfxam33qd&dl=0. Use with Sienna and be happy.

Only have volume E, which I find very useful for getting the kick and bass to translate on big systems. Now I'm looking to pick up a volume for general mixing purposes and thinking to just buy A. Are there other volumes people prefer over what's in volume A? What's your favorite room/ volume? Thanks in advance!

Love B SIRIO800(Sub): Bowers & Wilkin 800 + B&W DB1 Subwoofer (generally considered the best room in the series) + Fonoprint
-POLARIS5: PMC BB5 XBD-A (I use this without the room, but they are $160,000 monitors and sound awesome) and F F02 Studio: Bach Studio ATIKcustom : ATC SCM custom

This really should be the number one plugin in this segment. Needs some attention, but the results speak for themselves. Oh and just use the engineer's preset. Don't start twisting knobs unless you know what you're looking for.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll demo then!

Ended up with F, BACH I really like and there's a couple of other rooms that sound really balanced to me. Somehow I find my bass drums annoying in all spitfire rooms (and many other rooms on Sienna A), too bouncy.