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The ro 140 Black Friday deal is 61% off at $19 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's vintage plate reverb plugin that physically models six plate reverbs in one package.
The RO-140 takes its cue from the EMT 140 and other classic plate units. The maker says it keeps the sound and feel of the analogue hardware while adding a few twists of its own.
It is a reverb plugin built on physical modelling rather than impulse responses. The maker points to the gap between classic hardware like the EMT 140 and purely impulse-response plugins as the reason it modelled six plates.
Plate reverb goes back to engineers hanging foil and metal plates in the 50s to stand in for costly reverb rooms. The technique was slow and unpredictable, but it shaped plenty of 50s and 60s hit records.
You get six plate materials: gold, silver, steel, aluminum, bronze and titanium. Each has an adjustable size, so the combinations of material and size are close to endless, according to the maker.
The main controls are:
The pre-delay sits after the plate emulation on purpose. That lets you automate it in your DAW and modulate the reverb tail.
The RO-140 runs at zero latency, so it needs no sample delay compensation. The maker says that makes it suitable for real-time monitoring and live use.
Its DSP is pipelined with the SSE2 instruction set, which the maker says keeps it fast despite heavy computation. The interface supports high pixel density on Windows and Mac.
On Mac you need:
On PC you need:
If you work on Windows and want the high-DPI interface, your DAW manual will say whether the host supports it.
Yes. The RO-140 plate reverb plugin is 61% off at $19 for Black Friday, and the deal runs until Nov 22, 2026.
The RO-140 gives you a choice of six plate types, each one a physical model of its metal: gold, silver, steel, aluminum, bronze or titanium. Each one has an adjustable size through the plate size controller, so you can combine material and size to build your own plate sound.
On Mac it runs in 64-bit VST, VST3, AU or AAX hosts on OSX 10.9 or newer, including M1 and M2. On Windows 7 or newer it runs in VST, VST3 or AAX hosts. Both need 1GB of RAM.
No. The maker describes it as a zero-latency reverb that needs no sample delay compensation, which it says suits real-time monitoring and live environments. Its DSP uses the SSE2 instruction set to stay fast under heavy computation.
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