均衡EQ效果器插件 Acustica Audio Maize 2024 [WiN+MAC]

版本 | 2024
Win 10-11 | AAX | VST | VST3 | 120MB
Mac10.15-13.X | AAX | AU | VST | VST3 | 220MB

Maize 是正宗的 Markbass PP-10 参数均衡器插件：PP10 均衡器硬件的官方再现。

Maize 是 Markbass PP10 均衡器的官方再现。
Maize 是一款 VST/VST3/AAX/AU Acqua 插件，忠实再现了 Markbass 备受推崇的 PP10 的行为和音效：这是一款固态参数均衡器，灵感来自 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代的经典均衡器音效，Acustica 通过引入功能进一步增强了它的功能，使其更加强大、用途更加广泛。

该项目揭开了 Acustica 与 Markbass 合作的序幕，为专业音响领域提供了具有当今市场上均衡器少有的非凡品质的产品。

完美的雕刻工具
Maize 体现了 PP10 的主要特点，它是一款极富音乐性但同时又非常精确的均衡器。它有 10 个频段，每个频段有 19 个可选频率，一个增益电位器可控制削减和提升（-16 至 +16dB），一个旋转控制器可在 0.3 至 6.0 之间调节铃宽 (Q)。对于均衡器来说，后者的 Q 值异常之高；该机器专门设计用于使用非常窄的喇叭口，以便对频谱进行精细的外科手术式修正。它的声音特征非常独特，虽然能很好地适应母带处理，但在混音阶段，当你修正或雕琢乐器的声音时，它能发挥出最佳效果。

Maize 可以复制所有这些功能。

音频专家将这款插件定义为神秘的均衡器，因为它在频率响应和相位方面的线性程度达到了频段的极致。在低频段，它的线性度几乎达到直流！这款均衡器具有自己独特的音质个性和巨大的塑造潜力。在使用过程中，你会立即注意到每次干预都能以分贝为单位进行精确校准，尤其是在减法阶段。

PP10 设备的非凡品质给 Acustica 留下了深刻印象，使其忍不住推出了数字版本，并引入了一些附加功能，以提供更多的多功能性。这些功能包括控制链接、M-S、可切换前置放大器（固态和真空管）、进出表、频段激活按钮以及前置放大器部分的超采样选项。

一点历史
PP10 立体声均衡器的原型诞生于 2006 年左右，当时 Markbass 公司希望制造一款精密的均衡器，因此用了 PP 这个缩写，代表 “纯粹精密”。为了确保制造出真正与众不同的产品，他们请来了鲁道夫-“福福”-比安奇（Rodolfo “Foffo” Bianchi）。

比安奇是意大利最伟大的制作人和音响工程师之一，几十年来，他为意大利的音乐史写下了最重要的篇章。Foffo 的丰富经验可以追溯到 RCA 的黄金年代，他帮助 Markbass 创造了最先进的均衡器。这款毫不妥协的硬件设备经过精心设计、优化设计，并采用了现有的最佳元件。

然而，对绝对质量的不懈追求在这一雄心勃勃的项目开发过程中产生了意想不到的后果。几乎令人望而却步的生产成本使该设备难以推向市场，Markbass 不得不决定是否涉足一个新的领域：专业音响。经过权衡，他们决定搁置该项目，以评估企业和商业层面的潜在风险。

最终，他们只制作了两台设备。一台仍由比安奇家族拥有，另一台属于著名音响工程师萨比诺-坎农。由于 Acustica 开发了 Maize 插件，音响工程师们终于可以从这一卓越的产品中获益。
Acustica Audio Maize 2024
Maize is the authentic Markbass PP-10 Parametric Equalizer in plugin form: an official recreation of their PP10 EQ hardware.

Maize is the official recreation of the PP10 EQ by Markbass.
Maize is a VST/VST3/AAX/AU Acqua plugin that faithfully replicates the behavior and sound of the highly-prized PP10 by Markbass: a solid-state parametric equalizer inspired by the sounds of classic equalizers from the 1970s and 80s, and further enhanced by Acustica with the introduction of features that make it even more powerful and versatile.

This project inaugurates Acustica’s collaboration with Markbass, offering the pro audio sector a product with extraordinary qualities rarely found in the EQs on the market today.

The Perfect Sculpting Tool
Maize embodies the main features of the PP10, which an extremely musical, but simultaneously very precise equalizer. It features 10 bands, each of which includes 19 selectable frequencies, a gain pot that controls cuts and boosts (-16 to +16dB), and a rotary control that adjusts the bell width (Q) from 0.3 to 6.0. The latter is an unusually high Q value for an equalizer; the machine was specifically designed to allow the use of very narrow bells, allowing fine, surgical corrections in the frequency spectrum. Its sound signature is distinctive, and while it adapts extraordinarily well to mastering, it gives its best in the mixing phase, when you’re correcting or sculpting the sound of your instruments.

All of this and more is replicated by Maize.

This plugin is an equalizer that audio experts would define as esoteric, in that it’s linear to the extremes of the band with regards to frequency response and phase. In the low range, its linearity goes almost up to DC! This is an equalizer with its own distinct sonic personality, and with great shaping potential. While using it, you will immediately notice how each intervention can be calibrated with precision in terms of decibels, especially in the subtractive phase.

Acustica was so impressed by the extraordinary qualities of the PP10 unit that it couldn’t resist the idea of creating a digital version, as well as introducing some additional features that provide even more further versatility. These include control-link, M-S, switchable preamps (solid-state and vacuum tube), in-out meters, band activation buttons and oversampling options for the preamp section.

A Little Bit of History
The PP10 stereo equalizer was born as a prototype around 2006 due to the Markbass company’s desire to build a precision equalizer — hence the acronym PP, which stands for “Pure Precision.” To make sure they were creating something truly special, they relied on the expertise of none other than Rodolfo “Foffo” Bianchi.

Bianchi is one of the greatest producers and sound engineers in Italy, who, for decades, has helped to write some of the most important pages of his country’s music history. Foffo’s wealth of experience date back to the golden years of RCA, and helped Markbass to create a state-of-the-art equalizer. This uncompromising hardware unit was meticulously designed, optimally engineered and built with the best components available.

However, the uncompromising pursuit of absolute quality had an unintended consequence in the development of this ambitious project. The almost prohibitive production costs made the unit difficult to market, and Markbass had to decide whether or not to venture into a new field: pro audio. After weighing the options, they decided to set aside the project in order to evaluate the potential risk at both an entrepreneurial and commercial level.

In the end, only two units were created. One is still in possession of the Bianchi family, while the other belongs to renowned sound engineer Sabino Cannone. Thanks to Acustica’s development of the Maize plugin, sound engineers can finally reap the benefit of this excellent product, which is both unique and nearly impossible to find in the non-digital realm.