Exponential Audio reverb engines get another lifeline (not a deal)

[Marc Cormier]

Introducing Equinox: an immersive, adaptive reverb plugin for music and post production

Discover how to craft immersive depth, life, and clarity with Equinox, a professional reverb plugin for post and music production.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products.html/

Unleash the power of two legendary reverbs in one

Equinox is built on the incredible reverb engines from Exponential Audio’s Stratus and Symphony, giving you the best of both worlds. Whether you're aiming for hyper-realistic spaces to place your instruments and dialogue naturally, or you want to dive into creative and experimental sound design, Equinox has you covered. Go real or surreal – the choice is yours. 

I didn't bite on the earlier adaptation of EA verbs (Aurora) but this looks interesting, but maybe more so once it's about $100 cheaper.

Edited Saturday at 11:59 PM by Marc Cormier

[Endless Thinking]

Crossgrade from Stratus 3D and Symphony 3D (I have both plus Neoverb), or the 3D Reverb Bundle is $55.20 Canadian with $69 listed as the normal upgrade price for me on Izotope's website.

Edited Sunday at 02:52 AM by Endless Thinking
added Neoverb to the list

[e-cue]

Me: 

[LAGinz]

On my Windows 11 laptop, with display set at recommended 125% scale , the preset indexing tab on this plug-in does not work. Grrrr…..

[Per Christian Frankplads]

So, I just pulled the trigger on iZotope Equinox for $39.20 via my loyalty offer. It'll be my main reverb going forward.

Here’s why that made sense — maybe it'll help someone else debating the same.

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WHAT IT IS:

* Equinox is iZotope's new flagship reverb, replacing Exponential Audio's Stratus 3D, Symphony 3D, R4, Nimbus, PhoenixVerb, and even Neoverb.

* It's the only one that's fully Apple Silicon native and officially supported.

* It's Dolby Atmos–ready, supports up to 9.1.6, and runs great in Logic Pro.

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WHY I BOUGHT IT:

* I already own 40+ reverbs: Eventide, PSP, Valhalla, Waves, Arturia, IK, Relab, etc.

* But none of them combine:
- Clean modern sound
- Native Atmos support
- Apple Silicon optimisation
- Clear GUI and workflow
- Freeze, modulation, tilt EQ, unmasking
- 1250+ presets

At this price, it’s cheaper than coffee and pastry. And worth mastering.

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MY STRATEGY — ANCHOR + COLOUR:

* Equinox is my new anchor: the one reverb I’ll learn and trust for all mix work.

* The rest are colour tools: Blackhole, Supermassive, Wires, SP2016, etc.

* I now mix with one trusted core verb — and add spice when needed.

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FUTURE-PROOF? PROBABLY:

* Unless iZotope makes a "Neutron 6 Atmos AI Verb Matrix", Equinox is it.

* Even if something better comes out, I’ll still be mastering this one.

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TL;DR:

If you’ve got the loyalty price, and want one future-ready flagship reverb — grab Equinox.

Use the rest for colour. This is the one I’ll be learning inside and out.

[hsmusic]

Crossgrade from Stratus 3D and Symphony 3D is $32.93 at JRR using Group code

Edited Sunday at 07:29 PM by hsmusic

[TheSteven]

Wondering which bundles it will be included with in the future - NI, iZotope, both?

[Starship Krupa]

8 hours ago, Per Christian Frankplads said:

I just pulled the trigger on iZotope Equinox for $39.20 via my loyalty offer. It'll be my main reverb going forward.

Here’s why that made sense — maybe it'll help someone else debating the same.

Thanks for this review. I'm a big fan of the Exponential algorithms, going back to when Phoenix first went on sale for $9.99. I tried a demo, substituting if for my previous main reverb and the difference was stunning. Using a good reverb turned my mix into something that sounded....not sure of the word I'm looking for, "real?" "professional?"

I'm apparently very sensitive to reverb tails when listening to music, and Phoenix' tails go on forever without turning grainy. They're just "right" in a way that no other reverb I'd tried before that. Since then MeldaProduction's TurboReverb has proved able to equal if not best it (esp. the Brichamber model), but it doesn't surpass it (for natural go-to reverb that is; MTurboReverb can also do what you call the "color" stuff like SuperMassive).

My questions for you: the fact that everything from Phoenix/R2 through Stratus/Symphony is very easy on resources is a selling point for them. iZotope are notorious for the high overhead their processors usually have. How does Equinox stack up to the Exponential reverbs that were coded by Exponential? I have Neoverb, and it just seems to me like an attempt to kludge an iZotope wizard onto the Expo algos. I don't need my reverb to analyze my song and then recommend a preset, I can choose presets myself, I can even adjust the parameters myself, although I usually don't with the Expo reverbs.

Second, have they finally done away with the godawful single seat iLok'd licensing scheme and enabled the much saner iZotope licensing and validation? That alone would make it worth the loyalty upgrade price.

Otherwise, as with anything iZotope that I want....kick back and wait for the glitch, they usually seem to happen right around the end of iZotope's financial year.

[Brian Walton]

Same thoughts here.  Neo which uses the EA algos is a resource hog...did they fix that?  We know the algorithms are not the problem.

Is it also a one authorization system or is it the normal Izotope scheme?

When it is going to be on a real sale?  I've got something like 3 seats of R4 and 3 Nimbus seats (along with Neo)  and my price is something like $150 like any other bum off the street.

[Per Christian Frankplads]

18 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

iZotope are notorious for the high overhead their processors usually have. How does Equinox stack up to the Exponential reverbs that were coded by Exponential?

Second, have they finally done away with the godawful single seat iLok'd licensing scheme and enabled the much saner iZotope licensing and validation? 

1) Apparently it's still CPU hungry, but I didn't notice on my Mac Studio M3 Ultra. 🙃

2) I actually don't know. I thought it was just one license, but it seems I still have the iLok license not activated, while registering it to my Mac Studio and having it work there.

[LAGinz]

I’ve got it installed on 2 computers ala the normal Izotope  deal.

[TheSteven]

LOL I can't get the trial version to work in latest version of Sonar.
Problem on my end.  Trial version works fine in Sonar.

Edited 16 hours ago by TheSteven

[TheSteven]

See previous post...

Edited 16 hours ago by TheSteven