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chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Aug 03, 2016 2:51 pm

It is officially released now: https://tone2.com/html/icarus.html

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Wed Aug 03, 2016 4:01 pm

Is there a special price for owners of their other synths?

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Wed Aug 03, 2016 4:09 pm

Kraznet wrote:Is there a special price for owners of their other synths?

While they do not offer this directly in their shop there was always an option to ask their official support in the case you alraedy own some of their other products so this could be an option for you.

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Wed Aug 03, 2016 10:08 pm

Ingonator wrote:
Kraznet wrote:Is there a special price for owners of their other synths?
While they do not offer this directly in their shop there was always an option to ask their official support in the case you alraedy own some of their other products so this could be an option for you.

Thanks I emailed them. It's weird - Tone2 must be the only developer that doesn't let you create an online account and a user area for your products. I wonder why this is?

KingTuck · Post by **KingTuck** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 3:31 am

So Icarus is released? The version up on the site is still the Public beta 3 release. Does it have all the presets and whatnot? Seems stable enough, but I'm curious...

OneOfManyPauls · Post by **OneOfManyPauls** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 8:16 am

If you buy from tone2, choose currency wisely because the prices are all over the place.

€149 EUR = £125 / $165
$199 USD = €179 / £150
£138 GBP = €164 / $184

all currency selections show as including 20% sales tax.

exmatproton · Post by **exmatproton** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:52 am

KingTuck wrote:So Icarus is released? The version up on the site is still the Public beta 3 release. Does it have all the presets and whatnot? Seems stable enough, but I'm curious...

It is on the download page, as the update version to version 1.0

Tone2/downloads

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 2:40 pm

The anatomy of a release cycle: It took about 7 months from it was announced, to it got released.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 3:17 pm

Numanoid wrote:The anatomy of a release cycle: It took about 7 months from it was announced, to it got released.

Thankfully not all conpanies use this spam type method to hype a product.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 3:53 pm

Numanoid wrote:The anatomy of a release cycle: It took about 7 months from it was announced, to it got released.

FWIW almost 2 months of this were a public beta where people were able to check the plugin themselves, report bugs and make feature requests...

At a certain point they simply had to release it as they could not wait forever with this. Certain additional features could be maybe added with future updates (like it was alraeyd done with some other Tone2 plugins). Anyway the release was always scheduled for "summer" (there was no specific release date before that for the current release) so this was not totally wrong (AFAIK the 3rd of August is still in summer...).

BTW Tone2 also needed a long time to sort and re-sort (multiple times until teh release) thousands of submitted patches for the factory content and also create some new ones where necessary. For those who did still not realize Markus, the developer at Tone2, is also heavily involved with sound design (both factory content and soundsets). His patches are those with "MF" (= Markus Feil) at the end of the patch name. Another major person at Tone2 (besides Markus) is Troels Nygaard and his patches seem to be those with "UT" at the end of the name.
A bunch of the submitted patches were also edited if necessary while keeping them sounding as close to the original patches as possible.

AnX wrote:
Numanoid wrote:The anatomy of a release cycle: It took about 7 months from it was announced, to it got released.
Thankfully not all conpanies use this spam type method to hype a product.

At least this was never "vapourware", not during the time of the closed beta and of course also not during the public beta...
At the time where the first details were published in the public it was alraedy working more or less nicely and a lot of patches were alraedy done for it.

flakes2 · Post by **flakes2** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:02 pm

I can't see any spamming here.
The synth was oficially anounced in April. Now it's August. That's 4 months and not 7.

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/tone2-anno ... izer-33299

Also the person who started this thread and refercend to a post from faceboom also does not seem to be involed to the company.

It's simply an interesting product with an interesting feature set. That's why we talk about it here. If you don't like it just move on.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:04 pm

AnX wrote:
Numanoid wrote:The anatomy of a release cycle: It took about 7 months from it was announced, to it got released.
Thankfully not all conpanies use this spam type method to hype a product.

I don't think it is spamming, I find it weird that it isn't done more.

In the computer game world it is all about previews, so why not the plugin world too.

Duke Nukem 4ever was announced in '97 and got released in '11

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:04 pm

flakes2 wrote: It's simply an interesting product with an interesting feature set. That's why we talk about it here. If you don't like it just move on.

+1000

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:08 pm

Nah, its spam. Tone2 are more famous for that than they are their generic variations on a theme synths.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:12 pm

The AnXiety.

Tone2 will release Icarus - 3D WaveTable Synthesizer