antares infinity

[geforceg4]

http://web.archive.org/web/20051124153813/http://www.pair.com/anttech/downloads/INFINITY_v3.18.hqx

this url does work to download the 5mb infinity 3.18 installer!

[remy cohen]

Anyone have a good link to the version 2.x (not the demo)? Pretty much as into this as supernova777. would love a working permenant version to loop with. The links provided by MacTron are no longer available to the public.

[remy cohen]

I got taken care of!

[geforceg4]

I got taken care of!

please post for others

[k-Tracker]

Can you please share Infinity 2.55.sit?  The link doesn't work any longer.

[Syn-Fi]

hi,

old thread i know...

anyone have a version of Antares that works on a 68k mac?  2.55 doesn't play ball.  It may have been called Infinity - Jupiter systems in an earlier incarnation.

[macStuff]

greetings fellow mac enthusiasts!

do these files work?
i;m not certain if these are the actual program? or just update patches

[nsputnik]

I would love to get this working in SheepShaver.  Does anyone still have the file?

[Syn-Fi]

hi,

i have been asked to up 2.55 of Antares Infinity and here it is.
16bit as opposed to 3.18 24bit but thats all you need for H/w samplers

The manual for 3.18 is good for 2.55: https://web.archive.org/web/20030325012644/http://www.antarestech.com:80/downloads/INFINITY_Manual.pdf

As an aside I only use Infinity for serious looping tasks as i find the crossfade looping tools on most H/w samplers like the Eiii, Eiiix and Roland s770 are fine.  The aforementioned H/w samplers also have synthesis functions.  So infinity is great for looping heavily chorused sounds or looping something into a tiny little file - which is what Emu, Roland & Ensoniq put to good use when they used it for their Romplers.  Generally, in my opinion, Infinity can be overkill for looping especially where you might be taking multiple samples from say a synth.  I think it has some hereto unexplored creative possibilities and if anyone has got any examples (or ideas) i would love to hear back.

Enjoy!

[IIO]

nowadays tools like kymas tau editor, melodyne, or free apps like paulstretch & co have stolen the show a bit (why would you liek to "loop" when you can stretch and interpolate with FFT or resythesise with impulses and resonators?) but infinity is some sexy little tool and performs a job which  you could not even do that way with the (harder to use) soundhack back in the days.

but the fact that 2.55 does not support 24 bits made it useless for me since the turn of the millenium. same with metasynth on classic.

[Syn-Fi]

hi this is true and i have had a Kyma Capybara system and it does sound terrific - check out Wall-E for all it can do....but it is not an instrument in the same way a h/w sampler can be.

So infinity is still a superb way of enhancing your sampler experience and building your own libraries.

[IIO]

one should merge it with recycle ... automatic transient detection for the attack and automatic loop finding for the sustain and release parts.

[Syn-Fi]

hi some points to note on a similar setup as this:

• G4 MDD OS9
  Digidesign 888/24 interface monitoring via SPDIF
  Emu EIV Sampler connected via SCSI for SMDI transfers
  Bias Peak 2.5 TDM to obtain said transfer
  Transfer is 16bit 48khz
  Infinity 2.55 to process
  
  
  

I noticed that infinity would change the sample rate of the AIFF, from the EIV obtained via Bias, to some ridiculous sample rate if you made any changes to the looping, even before saving.  Whilst i could open the resultant AIFF in Bias i could not correct the sample rate.  Eventually, i got around this by opening the file in Infinity but saving as 'SDII' which Bias can read correctly, with no sample rate changes and send back to the EIV.

As anyone else noticed this?  Even so, the 'get around' is detailed above; save in SDII in infinity 2.55

I only tend to use infinity to loop complex samples obtained from CD (as opposed to a real synth) and where i want to do more than cross-fade my favoured application is 'SPR looper' after cross fade.  I create short loops and long loops with no discernible impact on the audio quality from the original EIV take...amazing

These were on samples from 'Snatcher' the Sega Mega CD game which has 'RSS Roland' processing and even that remains intact with infinity.

keeping looping....

[macarone]

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is a sound only format.

SDII (Sound Designer II) has two forks: one for sound one for the graphics.

Bias uses their own PROPRIETARY version of AIFF which adds a graphics fork, which is saved so that the visuals don't have to be recreated every time an AIFF file is opened in a Bias application.

Toast and Jam seemed to be able to handle this special AIFF, but other applications may not.

Another quirk of Bias AIFF is that when saving a small change, say adding a marker, the whole file gets rewritten and the same save takes MUCH longer than when working in SDII format.

[macStuff]

great info thanks macarone

[Syn-Fi]

so it would appear

• Infinity has a problem in handling Bias 2.5 AIFF files.
  
• There was no problem with Bias 5.2+ aiff files

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[IIO]

maybe they are headerless or something.

[Syn-Fi]

hi,

old thread i know...

anyone have a version of Antares that works on a 68k mac?  2.55 doesn't play ball.  It may have been called Infinity - Jupiter systems in an earlier incarnation.

anyone got a 68k mac version of Infinity on an old hdd? would be great to have this.

[macStuff]

did u not see the two files Attached earlier in the thread?

[Syn-Fi]

hi, yes
2.55 doesn't work on 68k
i'm after an earlier iteration...it must exist somewhere