Acustica announces Coral2: 6-plugin suite including one FREE processor
by AcusticaSupport   11th July 2019

Theres no option to install free Coral Baxter EQ?

The free version does not allow its installation in Aquarius.

AI PRESET MANAGEMENT

Coral Baxter M/S and Coral Baxter (Free version) include AI Presets.
The presets are present by default in both the commercial and the trial version of the Coral Baxter M/S and Coral Baxter (Free version).
By clicking the “PRESET” drop down menu on the right hand side of the Baxter EQ you can select a preset from the displayed list. You can choose between several presets. Details in the following Chapter (“AI PRESET LIST & CREDITS”)

A normal preset would simply load the same settings each time you use it. Our AI presets will assess the audio being fed into the plugin and then based on the data stored in it’s memory from a “sampled” mix engineers knowledge it will make an Eq change.
For the best results loop a short section of audio you think is best suited for the AI evaluation. The timeframe is quite short, only a couple of seconds, so different points in the audio will obviously give different results. Then click the preset you would like to use and watch as the eq changes. It works very well on individual tracks and groups, whereas results on the master may vary.

AI PRESET LIST & CREDITS


01. AI ALL

The “Super Experience” AI Preset it’s the result of combined learning by ALL the sound engineers who have worked for this intense project


02. AI ACUSTICA

Preset Technique (used in the AI capture phase):

This Preset is the result of the accurate and intense learning sessions by Giancarlo del Sordo.

The idea behind this product

Giancarlo Del Sordo: “This product represents the culmination of the research I have carried out for 14 years, a search that began back in 2005. Coral Baxter is a concentrate of complex technology and, at the same time, it is as incredibly simple to use as it is elegant to look at. On the one hand Baxter is light, fast, effective, and it sounds just like the hardware, on the other hand its usability is made even simpler thanks to it’s artificial intelligence. Not only do we sample the machines - built by humans - but now we 'sample' humans themselves and their interaction with these machines, which means we capture their own experience, built over years of professional work. Baxter is Art and Magic combined."


03. AI ALEX TRECARICHI

Preset Technique (used in the AI capture phase):

- EQ for individual tracks, in particular voice and drums
- EQ for Mix Bus purposes


Alex Trecarichi - Class 1977, Alex Trecarichi has been involved in countless productions for recording, mixing, mastering, arranging, producing and playing instruments for some of the most famous Italian artists and TV Shows.

Alex has toured as FOH engineer with some of the best Italian acts and travelled the world for passion, getting in touch with thousands people, learning languages and.. life!
Loving sharing his knowledge, Alex took the opportunity to teach at SAE Insitute, IED and in many other schools all over his country.

Co-founder of the RESET! collective, in 2007 he started organizing huge parties and producing electronic music, remixing and working with international dance artists such as Fatboy Slim, Cassius and many more.

In September 2012 Alex opened Monodynamic Studio, where he has produced and mixed several multiple platinum hits

Alex Trecarichi
www.alextrecarichi.it



04. AI BIGBIZ

Preset Technique (used in the AI capture phase):

- EQ used on individual tracks
- EQ for Mix Bus purposes for the following genres: House Music, Pop-House, Commercial Deep House, and Tech-house.

Bigbiz Studio (Paolo Aliberti and Dario Khademi) - is based in the heart of Brescia (Italy). Fully focused on the Electronic Dance Music scene, they have developed their sound over several years of hard work.
They believe in embracing new digital technologies, their passion and experience leads them to craft every tune to the highest “state of the art” commercial standard.
To achieve this they constantly spend huge amounts of time studying, testing and developing new skills and techniques. Their roots are from various musical subcultures, but they deeply always embrace the vision of others, after all, they were born dj’s!

Bigbiz Studio
https://www.bigbizstudio.com/



05. AI MAX PAPARELLA

Preset Technique (used in the AI capture phase):

- EQ for Master Bus purposes


Max Paparella - born in 1975, is a Hammond organist with a great passion for vintage musical instruments. For over 20 years in the music industry he has collaborated over the years both in Europe and in the USA, working on the creation of numerous albums as a composer, musician, remixer and ghost producer.
In 2010 he founded the Groove Sound Design studio, starting a solid partnership with the guitarist and producer Valerio Fuiano (member of Mind Music Labs in Sweden), working for singers, artists and record labels on productions as a mixing & mastering engineer.
In 2011 he became a member of AES (Audio Engineering Society). In 2014, as part of his professional training, he took two courses for mastering engineering at the SAE Institute in the UK, passing both with full marks (100/100).
He has been working as a mastering engineer and musician with many record labels such as BMG Production Music (UK), Good Looking Records (UK), Cabana Recordings (USA), Selekta Recordings (USA), IRMA Records (IT).

Groove Sound Design
https://www.groovesoundesign.com/

Is it update or upgrade (resampling)?

There's no "Install" button on the Coral Baxter page in Aquarius...

Fixed, please try again now

Thank you,

Is it a core update or has the hw been re-employed?

- baxter and baxter ms is a brand new plugin
- the overall internal structure is completely different (so a lot lower on cpu)
- it features a very complex deep learning. Just try it (coral baxter or coral baxter ms)
- we have usual Core13 fixes (echo bug, noise and so on). We didn't need a new resampling, since original sampling was quite good.

Great great! Bravo!
Even the freebie sounds awesome!
Can't wait for the next updates!

This plug sounds wonderful. But I'm getting some bugginess in the strip. When turning on the left comp, the left side becomes inoperable. It just mutes altogether and the compressor won't allow you to switch modes. You can turn the dial and it will only stay on C2.

This is in PT in sessions at 96K and 48K.

The trial of the whole where it is EQ and comp is amazingly broken!
Clicking on the comp killa all sound in left speaker and right sounds like a reverb where all sound comming and going until i take it away. Running reaper and Mac.
Standalone work fine though.

Same problem in Studio one with the strip. I only tried VST3 though but your right about the comp as soon as you turn the left on it mutes the signal on the left side.

We'll check the trial version asap

Can't open it in PT 2019. As soon as I insert it the wheel of death appears and PT stops responding

edit. I was able to open it on another session 96k...

That Baxter eq is glorious

The freebie isn't loading in PT 12.4 W7... PT reads that it isn't a valid 64 bit AAX plugin on startup. Has anyone else had this problem?

Whole Channel Strip goes kablooey when turning on compression. Turning off the compressor does not fix it.
Logic Pro X 10.4.4 on Sierra

Great release, Giancarlo and crew! It did indeed make me smile.

I have not tested it out yet but I wanted to say that thanks to the new freebie, Baxter EQ from Variety of Sound finally has a replacement. I have been using that plugin since its release. This new one just so happens to have the same name as the old one.

Wow, great news! Coral Pre is on all my Mixbusses. If it sounds even better now, I`ll be pleasantly surprised...Off to try the Baxter-EQ...

Just a quick note to let you know that we fixed the Coral2 Channel Strip trial issue. Everything should be fine now.

Downloading now, thanks. Will you send new coupons for AA customers?

I have to check it again but yesterday when I installed Coral2 (not the trial) there was a strange issue also there, on channelstrip, something like a crazy autopan when I used ms setting.
I’ll check again later, I hope it was my imagination or there is an update also for the commercial release.
Other than that, it is a great update! Incredible sound and much better on cpu comparing with Coral1.

Hey @ AcusticaSupport ,
we users of Coral 1, maybe we have to uninstall version 1 before we install Coral2?
Is there any possibility of conflict if we keep both? (I’m asking due to the issue I mentioned above)

In fact, you should keep coral1 if you have used it in a project and you want to open it again sometime.

Thanks for the free Baxter EQ.... But, not only is it not good at all, it's flaws in this one as well!

1. There's a preamp kind of signal added by default (with pre off). Seems unintentionally.

2. When I phased out that signal and listened to the pre signal it was just laughable
(as many of your other pre's but this one might take the price).
So low and insignificant pre signal is added that it's just pathetic when you think of the cpu and latency trade of for AA plugins.
That's not all, if you you then add the hi-shelf signal at 18k it actually phase out the pre signal almost completely
It appears that the pre signal is phase inverted and actually subtract signal completely instead of adding.
Isn't it the highest priority here, having things in correct phase???
How many big flaws can you have in a product?
You better hire ONE engineer that actually knows what he's doing then by having random beta testers that seem to miss this simple stuff!

3. The benefits of the low-shelf (boost) is barely noticeable when comparing to a regular vst digital eq. Again, the AA vs regular eq trade off is too minimal.

So WHY should I use this thing? Why release something that's not in the same league as some of your other plugins that actually do something to the sound!

You make me feel fooled with this kind of product. You have done better. Keep doing that and skip the mediocre stuff.

I feel disappointed because I have higher expectations of you guys!

Anyways, good luck with fixing the errors!

it's not phase inverted here (first picture is about the phase, second one about the impulse reponse). By the way, this plugin is using very little cpu here.
Also it has same performances of expensive hardware releases of the same thing.
If you experince phase delay or latency not correctly reported just raise a ticket, because atm we don't have any tickets, on it, even a single one.
About your questions about engineers, we have really many ones but thank you for your application!

Have a nice day!

Not a problem here. Loving this release so far. Cola still gets my preference though - on drums the compressor is just INSANELY GOOD.

Anyhow, the tone of certain users is just ridiculous. Typical haters in disguise.

Coral2 VST3 (full version) doesn`t show up in ABLive 10.1, Win 10...

Testing Coral 2 comp against coral 1. Coral 2 is smoother, action is better. In UM mode it's very similar to DDMF's MDE. Coral 2 strip + BAX AI on mixbus is great!!