Audio Ease

I haven't found any issues regarding this software, the manual is quite clear and provides all the necessary information and I must also mention how easy and fast the general configuration and setup of this program is. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE The software works decent , stable , without any type of errors or crashes. I'm getting high-quality results with the feel of this real soft , warm reverb that uses real samples of sound. OVERALL OPINION What I like the most about is the realistic feel that offers two and four channel sampled acoustics of real halls, cathedrals, bathrooms , and many other features like creating and sampling your own space. Altiverb is the first reverb software to have advantage of the power of Apple's Altivec Velocity Engine which means that it requires a G4 to start. I also do like how great and high quality this reverb sounds and it's use that is really really wide , from using on different acoustic instruments like piano or guitar to some synths like Native Instrument's Massive. My opinion about the value of price is good, however this is a amateur plugin , it costs pretty much, and I do not advice to buy it unless you're very serious about your music , this product costs around 600$. Precision and quality of sounds is very very good , I would rate it 9.5/ 10 , the only criticism that I can give is that it uses many resources, but aren't all high quality reverbs like this?. I've tried several reverbs, some of my favorites are Aether , Reverberate and this product called Altiverb , you can do some crazy effects combining some presets provided by Aether and Altiverb. Knowing what I know I would buy this product over and over again because of the quality provided by it and how realistic the reverb sounds. However the price is quite huge, so you can search other alternative if this product doesn't fit your budget.

The Audio Ease Rocket Science Bundle is only available on a Mac OS, and it is a plug-in bundle that comes with three different plug-ins; Roger, Orbit and Follo are the names of the plug-ins you get with this bundle. Roger will allow you to work with humanized vowel filters, Follow is more of a band pass filter for your audio signal and Orbit will let you create some space for your sound source. Orbit is the better plug-in out of the 3 because it will allow you to basically have a virtual room and set where the sound is coming from. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE The Rocket Science Bundle is very easy to work with and it is very light on your CPU. I have had no crashes or freezes while using it with Logic or Pro Tools. It is also very affordable costing only 229 dollars online. You don’t get a boxed copy of it, once you pay it will be available to download immediately. I have not seen a manual for this bundle so I am not sure that it comes with one. But it is easy to figure out on your own because the program is not that in depth with anything. OVERALL OPINION Using The Audio Ease Rocket Science Bundle will give you some new things to work with on your instrument, vocal and master tracks. I would not purchase this bundle if you already have a good reverb plug-in. The quality of the Rocket Science Bundle is great for the money spent. I am happy that I purchased this a few months ago, but wish it had a few more options as far as the presets go for the Orbit plug in. I have not used any other similar bundles from Audio Ease, so they are a new company to me. I am interested to see what else they come up with in the years to come.

The Audio Ease Speakerphone 2 is a plug-in that has over 200 presets and effects. You can use this plug in with your favorite DAW and you will have all of the effects and samples that your brain can handle. It does come in at a higher price tag than a lot of other similar plug-ins. If you want to buy the Audio Ease Speakerphone 2 then you will have to spend 550 dollars, I think that price is sort of on the high end and should be down to around 350. The Speakerphone 2 has been upgraded from the original Speakerphone, but I still don’t feel like it is 550 dollars worthy. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE Setting it up was quick and easy, just download it after you pay for it. This was another issue that I have with Audio Ease. If you are paying 550 dollars for a plug-in I feel like they should still send you a hard copy of the program just in case you change systems later or lose your information. OVERALL OPINION Audio Ease Speakerphone 2 will give you so many options to give your sound some flavor it is ridiculous. I have not seen so many reverb presets in any single plug-in to this date. I love using some of the effects for my guitar tracks. They really allow me to replace using a lot of actual rigs. You will have full control over the presets once you load them up, so if you don’t want to use the preset that it shows all you have to do is click on the show controls option and you will have everything available to be edited and changed at the click of your mouse. The only thing that I don’t like about the Audio Ease Speakerphone 2 is that it cost 550 dollars and they don’t even send you a hardware box copy of the software. I hope they make some changes soon, because that is a lot of money to spend for a product that doesn’t ship to you.

The thing that I love about the Audio ease Speakerphone is that you can place any sound you are working with in basically any acoustic space that you want it to be in all in real time and with visuals. Being that when I first purchased this plug in it took me some time before I could fully understand it; it was the first type of plug in that I have work with that had this type of abilities and was completely new to me. Since then I have used hundreds of times and upgraded it not too long ago. The original Audio Ease Speakerphone has allowed me to create cleaner mixes by getting certain sounds out of the way to make room for other sounds. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE This plug in works with a Mac and a PC but on my main studio PC is where I used it the most because that is where most of my mixing goes down at. It took me a few weeks before I was done playing around with this plug in (because it was fun to experiment) then I was ready to really start working with it effectively. I have also used this plug in for post production purposes for video and short films that I do from time to time for local artist and groups to really add some depth and width to all music and any thing that I really wanted to add it to. OVERALL OPINION Working with this plug in has changed the way that I mix sounds and work with the post production stages of songs. I highly recommend purchasing this plug in if you can afford it. You will be able to emulate any style or size room and put that sound in it exactly where you want to. It does come with a manual and I spent a lot of time reading through it to make sure that I had all of the basics down. I love the Speakerphone plug in!

The Audio Ease All In Bundle has turned a lot of people off because of the price. It cost well over a thousand dollars and I was immediately turned off by it because you are getting no hardware and it feels like to much to spend of a software bundle that is not made by Native Instruments. But if you have the money and you are looking for some really good plug ins for your Mac then this bundle has it all. You will get Speakerphone, Altiverb 7, Snapper, Rocket Science Bundle and Nautilus Bundle all with this package. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE My favorite out of the bunch is probably the Rocket Science Bundle, because it was something different and I was not use to working with it. It has an effect in it called Roger. Roger lets you have human like filters to your audio signal. That signal does not have to be vocal recording it can be whatever you want it to be and I think it sounds really good with used with some bass guitars. OVERALL OPINION Snapper is also pretty cool, you can use it to preview your audio files before you bring them into your Pro Tools session. Snapper does not seem like it should have been included in this bundle though because it does not seem like it should be worth much money. It is basically just a Mac Finder, but it does come in handy. Setting up all of the plug ins was very quick and easy for me. I do not regret my decision at all, but if I had to go back and think about it again I don’t think I would have made the purchase because that was a lot of money to spend and I really only got a few plug ins that I will use regularly. These plug ins are for Mac users only, and should really only be used with Pro Tools to get the best out of them.

I use this in both Logic 9 and Ableton 8 and I have had no compatibility issues. Yes, the manual is clear and sufficient. If you are familiar how reverbs work, you only need to reference it for certain things specific to this software. Yes, the general configuration is fairly simple. All of the parameters are easily accessed. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE Yes, the software works great with the exception of one problem. I had initially setup up the IR samples to reside on an external hdd but I found that everytime I opened up the plugin, they were not showing up. All I had to do was go into the settings and point it back to the HDD. After a week of that I just decided to put in on my internal hdd and have had no problems since. The performance is great. Switching between presets is quick and simple and there is no clicking noises when doing so. I have been using this plugin for about 6 months now. OVERALL OPINION What I like most about this unit is the reverbs are top notch. I expected really good reverbs for the price, but I was very impressed when used in our studio. We have a few hardware reverbs and I still like to use them for their specific characters, but I find myself pulling this out way more often. Most likely due to its convenient home in my computer but also because it is just so great sounding. Other than the issue with the samples not showing up when using the ext hdd, there are no problems. $500 is a lot to spend on a plugin, but if you are doing a lot of work and want access to a lot of different high quality reverbs, this unit will make you very happy even at that price point. 10 out of 10 for software reverbs. It is really the best one I have used to date. I have used a lot of other reverb plugins (audio damage, built in Logic and Ableton plugins, lexicon which were pretty good, etc....) Yes, I would buy this again.

Audio Ease's Cabinet is an inexpensive piece of software designed for emulating guitar amplifiers. I can't say that the installation process was hard at all as it only took a small amount of time and was a simple step by step process. The interface of the software is really simple as there isn't anything out of the ordinary going on here. You've got parameters for mic level, narrow/wide, bass, spring reverb, room mic, and room damp. It has a lot of different types of amp and cabinet combinations to work with, including those made by Marshall, Fender, Orange, and Mesa. Of course these aren't exact replicas, but it is definitely cool to have amps that you know in the mix here. I don't think that a manual is necessary, although I haven't seen it so I can't say for sure if it would be helpful or not. SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE I'm currently running the Audio Ease Cabinet plug-in on a Mac Book Pro that has a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM. I have a Pro Tools LE system, running 7.4 with a Digi 002R audio interface. Thus far while using the Cabinet plug-in, everything has run smoothly within this configuration. I definitely haven't had a need to try and max it out in terms of how many I can run within a single session, but so far I've been comfortably able to run a few without a problem. As long as you have a decent system where you are currently able to run some plug-in in, I think you'll be fine here. OVERALL OPINION While certainly not the best sounding amp modeling software that I've used, Audio Ease Cabinet definitely has a lot to bring to the table. It is very easy to use and offers up a pretty diverse array of tones. However, without a doubt the best feature of the plug-in is how cheap it is. It makes the plug-in available to anyone with a home studio and software. I'd absolutely recommend checking it out for anyone looking to expand their plug-in arsenal in a home studio environment.