Audio Ease releases AltiVerb 5

Audio Ease has released Altiverb 5, a significant upgrade of their convolution reverb plug-in for Mac OS X.

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Altiverb uses top quality samples of real spaces to create reverb, ranging from Sydney Opera House to the cabin of a fire truck. It offers an extensive set of parameters, it supports all plug-in formats on the Mac (VST, AU, MAS, RTAS, HTDM and now also AudioSuite), parameter automation and surround. Altiverb 5 lets you sample your own spaces, and Audio Ease claim that Altiverb is by far the most efficient convolution reverb.

A selection of changes:

• Copy protection: iLok authorization, or challenge/response.
• New Stage Positioning control allows you to place your source sound anywhere on stage.
• Four band EQ, tailored for reverb.
• Internal level meters.
• I/O controls for front, rear, center bleed and LFE channels.
• Separate Gains and Delays for Direct, Early Ref and Tail.
• Extensive CPU load control.
• Room Size shifts room modes and resonances.
• Reverse reverb mode.
• Internal test samples can be triggered from the Mac's keyboard.
• VR movies, pictures, statistics, mic layouts etc, in the info screen.
• Automatable preset switching.
• Built in presets, user presets.
• Impulse Responses in unlimited levels.
• Three band damping.

Altiverb costs US$595 for the MAS-VST-RTAS-AU-AudioSuite bundle or US$895 for the HTDM-RTAS-MAS-VST-AU-AudioSuite Bundle. Demo versions are available.