Acustica Intros Latte: The Ultimate Hyper High-End Mastering Suite

Welcome to the Latte plugin suite, available in VST3, AAX, and AU formats. A collection of meticulously crafted audio processing tools designed to bring the warmth, depth, and the precision of high-end analog hardware into your digital mastering workflow. Inspired by an iconic series of handcrafted German audio modules, Latte faithfully reproduces the sonic excellence of legendary mastering and sound processing equipment. Ready to bring the magic of $30,000+ studio gear straight into your DAW?

Key Features

• Mastering Modular Components: High-end mastering-grade processing including multiple modules identified in each plugin of the suite for flexible mastering workflows.

• Hyper Technology: Improved efficiency and sound fidelity with reduced CPU usage.

• First Hyper Stereo Mastering Equalizer: Active Mastering EQ features Wien-Robinson bridge principle, offering four parametric bands, passive-style curves without inductor limitations, for precise, transparent, and musical sound shaping.

• Low-Consumption Control Link Implementation: Optimized control link in Hyper Technology for seamless parameter linking with minimal CPU load.

• Refined Filtering & Harmonic Enhancement: A versatile EQ and preamp system featuring a Niveau filter, a balancing filter, and a Baxandall EQ with a 9 dB/oct slope—optimized for tonal shaping in mixing and mastering.

• Mastering Dynamics Compander: A solid compression and expansion tool that enhances loudness while maintaining dynamics and restoring balance to over-compressed mixes.

• Advanced Monitoring Options: Multiple listening modes (Δ, LR, M, S) for accurate mixing and spatial adjustments.

• Factory Presets: Latte Stereo EQ Ultra includes expertly crafted presets that offer quick starting points and creative inspiration for various projects.

About the Plugin Suite

This suite includes preamplifiers, dynamic processors, and equalizers the latter engineered with the Wien Robinson’s bridge principle and high-precision circuit integration. These stunning modules provide unparalleled versatility, making them ideal for both subtle tonal refinements and dramatic sound shaping.

Latte consists of five separate plugins:

• Latte Stereo EQ Ultra – High-Fidelity Mastering Equalizer

A mastering-grade active Stereo Equalizer with a smooth, musical response. Offers four parametric bands with extensive control over frequency, gain, and Q-factor. The EQ curves, like their sampled hardware counterparts, behave similarly to classic passive EQs but without the limitations of inductors. This module ensures well-defined lows, clean highs, and a musical, natural tone, even under extreme settings. It features a sleek, minimalist 2D interface, optimized for usability and workflow efficiency. Additionally, expertly crafted Factory Presets serve as quick starting points and sources of creative inspiration.

Latte EQ Ultra GUI

• Latte EQ – Dual Mono Equalizer for Precise Tonal Sculpting

This advanced Equalizer features four fully parametric bands, allowing precise control over bass, mid, and high frequencies without distortion. It is ideal for both drastic tonal shaping and subtle corrections while maintaining musicality and transparency. With dedicated high-pass and low-pass filters, along with preamp emulation options, Latte EQ offers an analog-modeled workflow for mastering and mixing applications.

Latte EQ GUI

• Latte Dyn – Powerful Compressor/Expander

A dynamic processor integrating two tools into a single unit: an advanced Compressor, and a DeCompressor/Expander. The compressor enhances loudness while preserving natural dynamics and the DeCompressor can restore over-compressed mixes or act as a "Pump-Up Compressor" to add density. This flexible design is suitable for mastering, group processing, and mix bus applications. It features a sleek, minimalist 2D interface, optimized for usability and workflow efficiency.

Latte Dyn GUI

• Latte Multiband Dyn – Advanced Multiband Dynamics

A four-band compressor /expander for precise dynamic shaping, allowing targeted control over individual frequency bands while preserving balance and clarity. Ideal for mastering, mixing, and stem processing, it provides precise low-end control without losing impact, enhances the midrange without introducing harshness, and restores transients and depth without causing unwanted pumping. With controls for threshold, ratio, attack, release, shmod, pwr, and makeup, it simplifies dynamic processing, ensuring compression and expansion work in harmony across the entire frequency spectrum.

Latte Multiband Dyn GUI

• Latte Filters - Harmonic Enhancer with Bax EQ & Niveau filter – Color, Clarity and Consistency

A powerful tone-shaping tool with multiple preamp stages, a Niveau filter, and a Baxandall EQ designed for tonal balance and harmonic enhancement. This plugin integrates multiple preamp emulations and equalization types for global frequency shaping, making it ideal for stereo mastering and mixing. The filters provide high-low balance adjustments, midrange shaping, and corrections across the frequency spectrum.

Latte Filters GUI

For more details, refer to the Latte user manual.

The Legacy Behind Latte

Latte pays homage to rare and revered German modular audio systems that have defined high-end mastering and mixing workflows.

Acustica created Latte to celebrate these legendary designs, offering a suite of plugins that allows engineers to process their sound with tools renowned for their unique sonic character. This project was further refined in collaboration with Dragan Tanaskovic, a renowned Swedish sound engineer and former co-manager of Studio Bohus, one of Sweden’s most iconic recording studios that hosted legendary artists such as Abba, Status Quo, In Flames and more, who recorded and mastered some of their most celebrated songs there. In the early 2000s, Dragan commissioned a custom-built, high-end mastering chain, which was provided to us for state-of-the-art sampling. This allowed us to bring its sonic excellence into the digital domain as the Latte plugin suite, offering a modern interpretation of these celebrated analog tools while preserving their sonic depth and musicality.

Technical information:

• Supported formats: VST3, AAX, and AU.

• Available sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96 kHz.

• Compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

• Compatible with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) to macOS Sonoma (version 14.x).

• Intel, AMD, and ARM compatible.

• Native Apple Silicon support (Rosetta not supported).

Price and availability

Latte* introductory price: €89 | 59% OFF until April 14, 2025 at 11:59 pm CET (reg. price €219)

Get it here!

The product is at an introductory period for the first four weeks after release or until the first official version is released; this implies that the product may receive improvements, changes, or fixes available through Aquarius Desktop updates.

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Note: Latte's trial version includes 44.1 - 48 - 88.2 - 96 kHz sample rates.

Please remember that trials expire 30 days after authorization, and we strongly recommend not using trial products in commercial sessions or any important project.

Latte user's manual

Latte webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/shop/products/LATTE