FRCTL Audio have released AURA, available at the intro price of $24.99, increasing to $34.99 after the promotion. The offer ends August 12th.
Reverb adds depth and life to a track, but too much of it quickly turns a mix into a muddy wash. Traditionally, keeping lead vocals or snares crisp meant setting up tedious sidechain compression networks on auxiliary busses.
AURA eliminates that hassle by building smart tail ducking and dynamic room control directly into the plugin.
AURA moves around what you’re playing. When your source instrument comes in, AURA’s CLARITY engine turns down the reverb tail by a precise dB amount. The moment you pause, the room blooms back organically.
You get full ambient space without sacrificing mix clarity.
- Duck Lows: Pulls low-end reverb down harder to keep kicks and bass tight while top-end air breathes.
- Tune & Drain: Clears lingering older notes from the tail during fast melodic lines to prevent harmonic clutter.
- Absorb & Swell: Automatically shortens decay during busy phrases and expands it during gaps for effortless dynamic throws.
AURA features seven distinctly voiced algorithms: Room, Plate, Hall, Chamber, Bloom, Shimmer, and Space.
Crucially, room size and decay time are completely independent. You can dial in a tiny room that rings for 20 seconds or a massive hall that decays instantly. Combined with Fuse (which dips 1.6 kHz so the tail sits around your lead rather than fighting it), AURA gives you complete creative control.
Features include:
- Smart Clarity Control: Onboard real-time tail ducking with exact dB display—no extra sidechain busses required.
- Duck Lows: Dedicated low-frequency ducking to eliminate mud.
- Tune & Drain: Clears overlapping ringing notes on fast vocal lines and solos.
- 7 Reverb Characters: Separately voiced Room, Plate, Hall, Chamber, Bloom, Shimmer, and Space spaces.
- Uncoupled Size & Decay: Set physical room dimensions independently from decay length.
- Dynamic Decay (Absorb & Swell): Automatically adjusts decay time based on performance density.
- Tail Sculpting & Reverse: Features a 1.6 kHz Fuse dip for lead separation and a tempo-syncable reverse mode.
- Integrated Noise Gate: Reverb-tail gate for gated snares and clean, abrupt cuts
AURA is available to PC, Mac and Linux users (VST3, AU and CLAP).
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