Is 2C's Aether REALLY worth it? (the answer is: yes, certainly)

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ariston wrote:Title says it all. More specifically: is it worth 250$? Has it replaced all your other reverb plugs? Has it become your go-to reverb, or does it gather dust in your plugin folder?
YES -- it is worth the price!

I've been pondering this purchase (and alternative reverbs) for well over a year and finally pulled the trigger to buy Aether 1.5 after trying out the demo. Note that I own Sonnox Reverb, IKMultimedia CSR Reverb suite, several NomadFactory reverbs, several IR based reverbs (including the one in Kontakt), several freeware reverbs, a Lexicon MX400 hardware reverb as well as those included in various DAWs, WAV editors and VST multi-effects.

Although I'm a new Aether user, I would have to say that I expect:

1) I will still make regular use of my other reverbs, yet ...
2) Aether will be my "go to reverb" starting point, and ...
3) If I were only allowed one reverb, it would be Aether.

Very impressed. It is so incredibly clean, warm and natural sounding. Wonderful presets and easy to use interface for tweaking. Lots of variety.

If I were setting up a DAW system from scratch, this would be one of my first VST effect add ons. :D

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Thanks Kevin63101! :love:

Nice to hear.

And...

we have the new 1.5.1 coming out this week.... maybe tomorrow. (trying to get rid of one or two little annoyances :-o with the installers, otherwise it is done).

This version adds full RTAS support, 150 new factory presets including a new "Classics" folder than contains 129 new presets inspired by classic hardware, and some other things....

more in a day (I hope :shock: ) (or two if we are not lucky... :x )

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Galbanum wrote:more in a day (I hope :shock: ) (or two if we are not lucky... :x )
Ah, one day, two days -- as long as it doesn't burn in the oven, you know I'll take a heapin' helpin'. :D :tu:

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Great news! I hope you guys did the presets "ctl_click-mutes-all-categories-but-selected" navigation change. Silly thorn... :wheee:

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Yes. This has been changed. And-shift click can select multiple folders. Much faster this way...

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Galbanum wrote: This version adds full RTAS support, 150 new factory presets including a new "Classics" folder than contains 129 new presets inspired by classic hardware, and some other things....
That's great news! I love to do sound design with Aether, but sometimes, you just want that quik-and-eazy preset to do the job at hand. Aether's presets have been great so far, you can tell that a lot of careful attention to detail went into them.

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Galbanum wrote:Yes. This has been changed. And-shift click can select multiple folders. Much faster this way...
Thanks! :tu:

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ariston wrote:
http://soundcloud.com/ariston/closure-t ... is-the-end

Ambient soft stuff, featuring Audio Damage's new plugin Axon in two instances, two heavily processed pianos, and some backdrop courtesy of Alchemy, garnished with huge dollops of Aether.
Really nice ambient track Ariston! :!:

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Galbanum wrote: Really nice ambient track Ariston! :!:
Wow, nothing like an unexpected compliment to make your day! Thanks a lot for listening in! :)

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Galbanum wrote: we have the new 1.5.1 coming out this week.... maybe tomorrow.
YAY! :D
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I see that the latest v 1.5.1 is now released as of Oct 5 & on the Aether website. How do I update my current version? I only see the demo dl links & there's nothing in my user account.

Thanks

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I'm wondering the same thing and this question has come up before. You might want to add something to the 2CAudio site to make it a little clearer to current owners of Aether how this goes down when there is an update. I just checked the website and although the release is announced, nothing is mentioned about where to get the update. The website in general is having some problems too, with all tabs just leading to the same front page.

At any rate, thanks for working to keep developing Aether! 8)
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...just cleaning up the house before I invite all the guests...

I did not send out an email yet....

you guys are fast! This web text has only been live for about 30-60 minutes or so now...

email very soon...

:D

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OK, tardiness forgiven... :D

I wasn't sitting around expecting an update anyway so I guess I can wait a little longer. :)
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Email received... thanks for another great update! :)

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