Norway-based Acon Digital announced that it has updated its entire line of plugins to run natively on Apple Silicon processors such as Apple M1.
“After releasing our audio editor Acoustica with native support for Apple Silicon in April, we have spent the past two months releasing updates for our range of plug-ins with native Apple Silicon support,” says Stian Aagedal, CEO at Acon Digital. “We’re excited to leverage the full potential of Apple’s new line of processors and are very pleased with the responsiveness as well as the low CPU and power consumption when running our products natively on Apple M1.”
The Extract:Dialogue plugin that separates dialog from common types of background noise such as wind, rustle, traffic, hum, clicks and pops, also received further improvements. The CPU usage has been significantly reduced on all platforms due to code optimizations, and the plugin now comes with a new deep learning model that was trained on an even larger training set. The new model is designed to reduce artifacts, give more consistent results and keep dialog sound more natural. An option in “Preferences” makes it possible to choose the old model for legacy session support.
In addition, the dry signal panning in Verberate Immersive has been improved as well — when up-mixing stereo to surround or immersive, that audio is also routed to the front center channel. The behavior can be changed in the “Preferences” to support legacy sessions.
The upgrades are free for owners of the respective plugins.
