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

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

and the "Surprise" ?

the surprise is that, even after our infamous reverb shoot-out. you up 'n' bought aether anyways

now that's what i call baaaaad G.A.S

Mwahahahahahaha

and even though i still love spacemaster, i still reckon one day , i'll have this....damn this 1.5 demo for making me try it again

so what sold ya ??? did you end up with rp-verb or redline also???? if you tell me both, i'll...i'll...i'll...just laugh at you

start laughing then
add toraverb to the equation too lol

sheeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiitttttt!!!!!! you's far-harkin' craaaaazzzzzyyyyyy

c'mon , then , which ones the best and which one's heading for the kvr marketplace ???

[fretwizz]

BTW at your request, we have improved and replaced the Win installer to allow installation of both 32bit and 64bit versions at the same time in one pass...

Excellent!

[Aloysius]

Excellent!

[Andrew Souter]

Hi,

If you are one of the people who wrote a very nice comment/testimonial regarding Aether 1.5 in the previous pages, we would love to post your quote on our web site. If you are willing to do do, please cut and paste your quote and email it to us at info [aatt] 2caudio.com along with your real full name so we can attribute it to you. We really love this kind of encouragement, and it makes us very happy to see we have done a good job. We feel other potential users enjoy knowing these kind of things too.

Any help you can offer in this area is great.

Feel free to consolidate or reformat any of your thoughts for this purpose as well. Or write a new quote. This goes for any existing 1.5 customer too... anyone who is willing to supply a user quote is welcome to do so, and it is appreciated.

Thank you.

[sureno]

Hi,

If you are one of the people who wrote a very nice comment/testimonial regarding Aether 1.5 in the previous pages, we would love to post your quote on our web site. If you are willing to do do, please cut and paste your quote and email it to us at info [aatt] 2caudio.com along with your real full name so we can attribute it to you. We really love this kind of encouragement, and it makes us very happy to see we have done a good job. We feel other potential users enjoy knowing these kind of things too.

Any help you can offer in this area is great.

Feel free to consolidate or reformat any of your thoughts for this purpose as well. Or write a new quote. This goes for any existing 1.5 customer too... anyone who is willing to supply a user quote is welcome to do so, and it is appreciated.

Thank you.

Done

[rick-slo]

I have the Lexcion Native Reverb and Aether 1.5 among a number of other reverbs. Regarding the Lexicon and Aether both are outstanding. I have had neither for very long so I can't say which I will end up using more. Both sound very smooth and have clean reverb tails without digital hash and artifacts. The Lexicon is easier to get a quicker result due to the presets it comes with that get you in the ballpark, but the Aether can create a wider range of soundscapes. I think which I will ultimately give the nod to depends on spending some time and tweaking my own set of presets for each.

[jensa]

Hm. Can't get the "2CAudio Aether Manual 1.5.0 (PDF)"-link to work at the page http://www.2caudio.com/products/aether/index.html

Edit: Ok, seems they're still working on it...

[ganymede]

Has anyone else bought the new Creativity and Integrity presets for Aether? I've installed 'em but they don't seem to be available in the Aether presets menu on my Mac...

[Andrew Souter]

new presets are merged into existing folders. You should now have over 600 total though instead of 300...

in a later version we intend to implement a method to display only certain presets packs, but this idea did not make it to the 1.5 version...

[Andrew Souter]

Full Info:

(note Manual and new audio demos are not quite online yet... coming soon...)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4/20/2010

2CAUDIO RELEASES AETHER 1.5 AND ANNOUNCES THE AETHER INTEGRITY AND CREATIVITY EXPANSIONS

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AETHER 1.5 SUMMARY


Aether is an award-winning, ultimate quality, self-modulating algorithmic reverb. Aether 1.5 represents a very significant update and offers a huge number of industry-first advances in terms of audio quality and functionality. It is designed to compete directly with the best-of-the-best of both hardware and software reverbs. Most reasonable companies would call this a 2.0 version.

Aether 1.5 offers several industry-leading and unique features including:

2x & 4x Oversampling
Double Precision 64bit DSP
64bit Host/OS Support
Band-Limited Interpolation
Variable Quality Modes
Extreme Offline Render Modes
Mid-Side Modes
Cascade Control
Complex Stereo Modes
0-Sample Latency
Frequency Profiles
Flexible EQ/Filter Routing
Huge Parameter Value Ranges
Complex & Clustered IRs
Late Reflections Coloration
Comprehensive Preset Browser
Instant Algorithm Browsing
Proprietary Spectral Modulation
Attack & Sustain Envelope
Variable Q Damping Decay Curve
Immediate Parameter Accessibility
Macro Controls
Discrete Early Reflections Engine
Comprehensive FX Presets

Aether 1.5 also offers a completely new GUI, which retains the same layout as the previous version, but focuses on improvements to readability, usability, and communication of relevant parameter information such as measurement units.

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AETHER 1.5 FULL DETAILS

The full list of changes made in Aether 1.5 is six pages long! It is available here:

http://www.2caudio.com/products/aether/ ... ts_New.rtf

2CAudio is happy to have any part of this document included in press publications at the discretion of the publisher.

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AETHER INTEGRITY EXPANSION

The Aether Integrity Expansion is a collection of 160 new professionally designed presets for Aether 1.5. It focuses on ultra-realistic halls, chambers, rooms, churches, and small instrument spaces. It is designed to show just how good Aether 1.5 can be for traditional reverb applications in classical, folk, jazz, pop, rock, and acoustic music production. The Aether Integrity Expansion is designed to go head to head with the biggest names in hardware reverbs, and decisively prove Aether is just as capable of excelling at subtleties, as it is in pushing things to the extreme.

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AETHER CREATIVITY EXPANSION

The Aether Creativity Expansion is a collection of 150 new professionally designed presets for Aether 1.5. It is designed to further Aether's lead in the FX-reverb category by utilizing Aether's new 1.5 features to achieve cutting edge spatial effects and environments. It focuses on thematic presets, huge spaces, and FX that are designed to elicit an emotional response from artists and performers who use Aether as a creative tool and compose directly into it. All Aether Integrity Expansion presets are designed to be become a large part of the performance and transform it into something entirely otherworldly.


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AETHER BACKGROUND

Aether 1.0 took the industry by storm in 2009, and established itself as the leading native algorithmic plugin on the market. Through its combination of quality, innovation, and usability it quickly rose to the top of market as the go-to reverb of 2009. It was awarded several prestigious industry awards along the way including, Electronic Musician's 2010 Editor's Choice Award, Computer Music's Editor's Choice & Performance Awards, Musician's Life Editor's Choice award, and others. Aether 1.5 raises the bar once again in 2010, and takes native algorithmic reverb to a whole new level.


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2CAUDIO COMPANY BACKGROUND

2CAudio is a a sister company of Galbanum founded by Andrew Souter and Denis Malygin. It develops industry-leading audio plug-ins in VST, AU, and RTAS formats. Its primary focus is on spatial processing, advanced creative effects, and other future-forward ideas. The 2CAudio corporate motto is: Convergent Creative Precision.


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PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

Aether 1.5 is available for both 32bit and 64bit VST hosts on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and Windows 7. It is also available as a 32bit plug-in for Mas OSX VST and Audio Units hosts running on OSX.4, OSX.5, and OSX.6. Aether 1.5 will also be available for the first time for the Digidesign RTAS platform. The RTAS version is currently in the final stages of development and will be available shortly.

Aether 1.5 has a MSRP of $249.95. The Aether 1.5 update is free to existing users.

The Aether Integrity Expansion and the Aether Creativity Expansion are priced at $24.95 separately or $39.95 for both.

Orders are handled via download at the Galbanum web-store at this time. All products are available immediately.

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FULL PRODUCTION INFO & DEMO

http://www.2caudio.com/products/aether/

[djinsomniak]

any plans to bundle aether 1.5 and the 2 preset expansions with some kind of discount for newcomers to aether?

[sureno]

Has anyone else bought the new Creativity and Integrity presets for Aether? I've installed 'em but they don't seem to be available in the Aether presets menu on my Mac...

Same here, hence coming back here to check im not doing something stupid, looked like nothing was installed but seeing as it's merged il re look at it

[ganymede]

Has anyone else bought the new Creativity and Integrity presets for Aether? I've installed 'em but they don't seem to be available in the Aether presets menu on my Mac...

Same here, hence coming back here to check im not doing something stupid, looked like nothing was installed but seeing as it's merged il re look at it

Hopefully they'll have the preset list uploaded in the next few hours. Will make auditioning them a lot easier...

[softska]

This isn't a deal breaker but it annoys me since the 1.0 days: Why the navigation bar still there if it isn't going to be of any use!? I know there's a buy now button but comon, if I click "shop" we can at least expect it to go the right place rather than refreshing the same page, yes?

[ganymede]

Actually, I'm not sure the new presets have installed properly. Andrew says there should now be 600 presets but I only seem to have around 450, even though I installed both Creativity and Integrity. Won't know what's going on until I see the new preset lists. Please upload them asap!