Azure is finally available!

[Andrums]

At 96 kHz AzureHQ is useless even for mastering.
Tested in Studio One,Cubase 9.5,Pro Tools

[craigb913]

Very nice, significant improvement over the original. I have an old AMD FX cpu with 16gb of ram running Win 8.1 and Reaper 64. I'm seeing about 7.5% cpu at 96k/2048 buffer on the HQ version with no glitching and about 5.8% at 44k/1024, fwiw.

[theheliosequence]

Will the Trail be updated as well?

[giancarlo]

Yes it will be updated
About the cpu load, we check if we can improve it, raise a ticket in the case
Azure is crazy good, but cpu intensive, especially at high frequency rates

[giancarlo]

Yes it will be updated
About the cpu load, we check if we can improve it, raise a ticket in the case
Azure is crazy good, but cpu intensive, especially at high frequency rates

[nverxion]

Before I submit a ticket let me just make sure I'm not missing something. I can't find the HQ version anywhere. My "dashboard" lists Azure in its own category (all other Acquas are under a different link) and is listed as pre-order - the box folders say last updated in February...

[giancarlo]

just update azure in aquarius, reboot

[ce1909]

Currently as it performs it's useless for myself as well. Can we get option install for the HQ versions to save on unwanted disk space usage?

Channel strips would also benefit from separate installers for unwanted modules that suck up so much disk space.

[nverxion]

just update azure in aquarius, reboot

Thanks Giancarlo. I am assuming that means to install again from the Purchased tab? On the Updates tab I only have "UPDATE" next to Pink2. Azure is located down in the "Manual Updates Only (Please Re-Install)" group, so I am installing again from the Purchased tab. is that what you meant?

[giancarlo]

Currently as it performs it's useless for myself as well. Can we get option install for the HQ versions to save on unwanted disk space usage?

Channel strips would also benefit from separate installers for unwanted modules that suck up so much disk space.

You can just downgrade

[ce1909]

Currently as it performs it's useless for myself as well. Can we get option install for the HQ versions to save on unwanted disk space usage?

Channel strips would also benefit from separate installers for unwanted modules that suck up so much disk space.

You can just downgrade

But wouldn't any updated files for the regular Azure be downgraded as well?

[giancarlo]

They are uploading a version where standard azure is denoised, same cpu load as before
Echo is the same as before, maybe a little less - but it was light on azure
High frequencies are better

[holographic]

They are uploading a version where standard azure is denoised, same cpu load as before
Echo is the same as before, maybe a little less - but it was light on azure
High frequencies are better

Sounds great, thanks a lot
Is there any way to improve the spikes on the HQ version?
I tried to increase the dspbuffer without much success

[giancarlo]

We'll check but I don't think it is possible
Azure is exactly like ruby but doubled
On modern pc this small difference means a lot
Kernel size is exactly the same. Everything is the same, but doubled. I'll ask for a double check

[giancarlo]

Latest azure is implementing denoising of the tail, it's quite good.
About hq, it exactly a doubled ruby hq.
I can run it perfectly at 44100, but 96000 is around 4 times more cpu intensive so I understand you can have spikes.
We can't do much more there, use standard version if you experience spikes, or render the track.