2CAudio Breeze | 2.5 | Simple. Light. Pristine. Intelligently Adaptive.

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[Andrew Souter]

OK. I expect you to be the first to order.

[hibidy]

confusion, is this something I can check out now? I don't see it on the site....is it not yet available?

[Andrew Souter]

it only happened 30 sec ago. I'm not that fast... esp when sleep deprived. Give me at least 45sec.

[Andrew Souter]

done.

http://galbanum.com/shop/product_info.p ... ucts_id=77

did someone time? how long did it take?

[Exhile]

Goddamnit Andrew. Your trying to tempt me to spend money i dont have

Those preset packs arnt gonna get me across the line though

[Chris Ihao]

Ok, what the heck. Count me in Andrew. Just purchased Aether and those shiny expansions.

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[Peevy2000]

back to Peevy2000, was that I noticed the post about Breeze possibly replacing Eos, and I had to point out that they're very different and IMO they don't replace each other, which I must add is a good thing.

I wasn't looking for a Reverb to replace EOS I've been quite happy with the Reverb I've been getting from it.....well maybe 90% happy.
I craved for a Reverb with a bit more tweak-ability but not to complex, something that sounded better or at least different than EOS & since I'm on a tight budget it had to be affordable. Breeze ticks all those boxes & it'll compliment EOS well also. I don't think I'll ever get rid of EOS, its served me well & who knows what future updates from Audio Damage might bring. Hopefully a 64-bit version is on the cards soon.

Getting back to Breeze though, I'm really loving it. Its so easy to work with & it sounds brilliant too. I cant wait to get the cash scraped up for the full version so I can get it on my music ASAP
And its nice to know I can get Aether for a crossgrade price if & when the time comes.

[Mr. Slater's Parrot]

Edit: NM

[taoyoyo]

Andrew,
I noticed something on the demo version of Breeze (which I'm looking to pickup before the end of the year). I was playing with the time knob using a controller (APC-40 and Kore) and the twist increase does not appear to be equal with the time increase... ie: twist the knob a quarter turn and the time jumps up far ahead, only giving three or four options in the lower range.

Knobs have different scales to try to make the knob rotation range most usable, so that all the "good stuff" (to the extent that these is some limited range of "good stuff") is not confined to only a very small part of the knob rotation...

Shift-click-drag gives fine-tuning...

Also... I updated Aether to 1.5.1 and did not experience any improvement in CPU usage. Wondered if you had any suggestions?

(I'm on OSX, 10.6.6, the Aether experience was in Ableton Live 8.1.2... tried the same combination of audio file and preset before and after, using x2 oversampling).

There is no difference in the DSP. The only difference is that there as a bug in the GUI code previously. So when the GUI window was open it used more CPU than it should. The GUI should be basically insignificant in CPU requirements. Apparently it was not, and was using a semi-high amount of CPU usage. This was fixed.

The same issue was in Breeze, which shares the same GUI code base that we use. In breeze this was resulting in something like 30% of a single core for the GUI! It should be less than 1%. It was fixed and now is less than 1%. I don't know exactly if the issue was as sever in Aether, b/c we fixed it before I actually did any comparison test. But it did affect Aether too.

Otherwise, loving Breeze, it certainly is.

cool. a cool breeze in fact...

Hi Andrew,

Just tried the fine-tuning Shift function... works fine whilst using a mouse but doesn't work at all when using a knob on the APC-40. Firstly I tried holding down shift on my qwerty keyboard, then the shift button (using Native Kontrol script that has navigation page with Shift/Option etc). It doesn't work within Kore either.

Not really having a poke at you at all here but the irony here is that the idea behind controllers is to give more control and I'm getting less in this instance!

With the GUI CPU fix, if I'm understanding you correctly, if I had both GUI's open in before and after tests I should have seen an improvement in CPU usage?

Cheers,

Alan

PS: The lock function on the Mix parameter gets a big thumbs-up here!

[khollister]

Just a note to say, thanks to the holiday sale, I purchased the "Perfect Storm Bundle". I have been demoing Aether for quite a while and couldn't quite bring myself to pay the price knowing I would be occasionally limited in using it due to CPU. Auditioning Breeze against my other low CPU alternatives (CSR, Redline, EOS and AAR) led me to buy the package. Breeze has that same remarkably transparent, open sound that Aether does - the only instrument I would be reluctant to use it on so far is piano. I get a little metallic aftertaste compared to Aether.

Of course the UAD EMT 140 plate is absolutely killer, but it is somewhat more special purpose. Like a previous poster noted, I particularly like Breeze on drums and electric piano.

I still like EOS, but it is not a general purpose reverb to me. I like the color and texture of the CSR stuff, but it always sounds rather dead and closed in, regardless of how I adjust the damping and EQ.

I'm losing my fondness for the Redline and AAR plugins - Redline sounds artificial to me and there is something about AAR that just doesn't do it for me anymore.

The UAD EMT250 is still pretty hot, along with Reverberate with Peter's TC, Lex and M7 IR's as well. Not giving those up anytime soon.

[Andrew Souter]

Just tried the fine-tuning Shift function... works fine whilst using a mouse but doesn't work at all when using a knob on the APC-40. Firstly I tried holding down shift on my qwerty keyboard, then the shift button (using Native Kontrol script that has navigation page with Shift/Option etc). It doesn't work within Kore either.

Not really having a poke at you at all here but the irony here is that the idea behind controllers is to give more control and I'm getting less in this instance!)

I'm not entirely sure what will happen with various specialized controllers. If users find issues please send reports via email and we can explore if possible. Things should be transparent and work automatically, but who knows until you try, and we simply can not have every specialized hardware controller manufactured on hand to test ourselves.

With the GUI CPU fix, if I'm understanding you correctly, if I had both GUI's open in before and after tests I should have seen an improvement in CPU usage?)

yes correct. Only when GUI window is open. We are talking only about the CPU usage that is caused by the GUI. Not the audio processing. Audio processing is the same.

PS: The lock function on the Mix parameter gets a big thumbs-up here!

cool.

[Andrew Souter]

Just a note to say, thanks to the holiday sale, I purchased the "Perfect Storm Bundle". I have been demoing Aether for quite a while and couldn't quite bring myself to pay the price knowing I would be occasionally limited in using it due to CPU. Auditioning Breeze against my other low CPU alternatives (CSR, Redline, EOS and AAR) led me to buy the package. Breeze has that same remarkably transparent, open sound that Aether does - the only instrument I would be reluctant to use it on so far is piano. I get a little metallic aftertaste compared to Aether.

Thanks, glad you like it. Welcome to the family.