Josie, no harm in admitting love for the Acuma plugins that were part of Tracktion 2 and 3 when it was owned by Mackie.

People paid upwards of $500 for the exact same Final Mix plugin to be used in Mackie's digital console. Exact same processing.

That's when Tracktion 3 Ultimate Edition got fire-saled for $19 at Musician's Friend and other retailers, it did signal the true end of the product, so it seemed. It also represented a ridiculous steal if you were just looking to have access to Acuma Final Mix.

You will have some trouble finding a single plugin in Reaper or any other DAW package that did the whole Final Mix processing chain, with prescribed presets. Most of the time, you have to pay for something like Isotope's Ozone or some other 'mastering' tool.

Final Mix consists of at least the following:

1. Parametric 6 band EQ feeding
2. 3 band dynamics processor feeding
3. Parametric 6 band EQ feeding
4. Limiter with soft-knee option.

The presets like 'Male Vocal', 'Rock Drums' etc. all tweaked each of those 4 stages, specific to those particular applications.

The presets were and still are a great learning tool as well as very useful for a quick spit-shine on something that one is in a hurry to post online.

Now, certainly you can create a signal chain that does all of the above, but you will be spending an inordinate amount of time tweaking each of those stages.

Make certain you understand Tracktion's method for how to gain access to the old plugins. You have to have your original install discs, and I'm not sure that they run native inside of the 64 bit version of Tracktion - you might have to get a bridge.

One thing that I'm told that Reaper has built-in is a bridge so 32 bit plugins work inside of the 64 bit code, without having to force it through a bridge, but I don't think you can use the Tracktion plugins inside of Reaper, unless you can 'host' Tracktion inside of Reaper - that's another potential option.

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