Mackie Introduces Two New Third Party Plug-Ins for the Digital 8 Bus Console

Mackie Designs announced the addition of two new third party plug-ins for the Digital 8 Bus console. Developed by Acuma Labs, the Canadian based software developer that was acquired by Mackie last year, these are the latest in an exciting new family of 24-bit plug-ins specifically designed for the recently released Mackie Real Time OS 3.0 and Mackie Universal Effects (UFX) card.

The New Mackie D8B Plug Ins Are: Saturated Fat'
As its' name implies, Saturated Fat is a mono plug-in that employs an exciting new proprietary technology to achieve warm, natural-sounding, tube (saturated) distortion and cabinet modeling. Choose from over 40 preset distortion types to create the "perfect sound" or select from the array of factory presets to find a setting that suits any style of music.

Combine the cabinet modeler, selecting from a list of small, medium, large, acoustic and bass amps, with the drive level and the on-board 7-Band EQ to build custom distortions that can be saved and recalled as a User Preset. No more lengthy or loud "live" amplifier setups to contend with, just plug any instrument into the D8B and start playing! Saturated Fats' distinctive distortion types and amplifier models provide killer sounds instantly.

The other new plug-in is RTA-31™ Real Time 31-Band EQ and Spectral Analysis MSRP $199.00
The RTA-31 is both a Mono 31-Band Graphic EQ & a 1/3 octave Spectrum Analyzer that enables you to easily modify the frequency response of any given signal within the D8oB or from external live & studio acoustic environments. The amazing To EQ™ feature lets you immediately identify troublesome frequencies using the Frequency Analyzer while the 31-Band Graph automatically compensates for the highs and lows of your signal. Other features include a 1/3 Octave Spectrum Analyzer (20-20K) , To EQ (Automatically compensate for highs and lows in the spectrum that are read by the Analyzer), Morph Rate - Switch between Memory A/B using Morph sequence time, multiple factory presets, and selectable graph types. You can choose from bar, peak hold, point, peak difference, and peak bar for viewing preference. There is also a freeze mode to mmediately freeze the analyzer screen to allow you to view detailed information.

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