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Get the vla 3a Black Friday deal at 67% off, bringing Black Rooster Audio's VLA-3A compressor plugin to $19 until Nov 22, 2026.
The VLA-3A is a compressor plugin that the maker calls one of the most authentic native emulations of its analog counterpart from the 70s. Black Rooster Audio describes it as the company's go-to compressor for vocals.
It also works on percussive material, where the maker says it brings out the ambience, and on the mix bus, where it adds glue.
The plugin uses a realtime, component-based circuit simulation. The goal, according to the maker, is to reproduce the sound and feel of the analog unit as closely as possible.
The parts that shape the character are all modelled: the input and output transformers, the discrete sidechain and audio path networks, the filters and the T4B cell.
On the oversampling side, aliasing is attenuated with a low-latency, linear-phase Dolph-Chebyshev polyphase design. Because the rate adjusts to your session, the maker says it saves CPU while keeping the sound as transparent as possible.
On Windows, whether high-DPI display works depends on your DAW, so the manual is the place to confirm that.
On Mac, the plugin runs on OSX 10.9 or newer and supports M1 and M2 as well as Intel Core CPUs. It needs 1GB of RAM and a 64-bit host that loads VST, VST3, AU or AAX.
On Windows, you need Windows 7 or newer, an SSE2 compatible processor (an Intel Core CPU is recommended) and 1GB of RAM. Supported host formats are VST, VST3 and AAX.
Both platforms call for a display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels or more.
Yes. The VLA-3A Black Friday deal takes 67% off Black Rooster Audio's compressor plugin, bringing it to $19. The offer ends Nov 22, 2026.
Yes. It is a compressor plugin that supports VST, VST3, AU and AAX hosts on Mac, and VST, VST3 and AAX hosts on Windows. A 64-bit host is required on Mac. The AU format is listed for Mac only.
The maker calls it their go-to compressor for vocals. It is also described as working on percussive material to bring out ambience, and on mixes to add glue. It simulates the circuit of an analog unit from the 70s.
Yes. The system requirements list OSX 10.9 or newer with M1 and M2 support, alongside Intel Core CPUs. You need 1GB of RAM, a 64-bit host and a display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels or more.
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