In the current edition (August 2007), here are a couple of excerpts:

"Astralis includes an excellent combination of effect options, including Drive, Reverb, Delay, Ring Modulation, and Organic (a further delay based effect). For me, however, the highlights are the Arpeggiator, Modulation Sequencer and Envelope Gate Sequencer. Whether you want disco style arpeggios or Trance style rhythmic gated effects, Astralis has plenty of potential...

...The presets do an excellent job of demonstrating what Astralis is capabale of. There is some truly wonderful stuff amongst this lot, from scary sci-fi pads and soundscapes through to trance-friendly, mod sequenced, analogue style beeps. The presets also demonstrate that Astralis can do both subtlety and in your face aggression."

Sound on Sound Astralis Review

Another great review on KVR by user jodejo:

Read Astralis Review on KVR

"Currently Astralis is compose by three synths: Astralis A, B and C (still in beta version at this time). Astralis A and B are waveforms based synths with various possibilities (see main features) concerning effects, modulations options, routing and to handle waveforms. It's simple you can do all you want with waveforms and create your own sound easily (bass, rythmic sounds, pads, athmospheres). All these sounds are moving wich is perfect for soundscapes. Astralis B is the same but with reduced cpu. That's great with Astralis A to produce sounds with more space.

Astralis C is a sample based synth. It's a beta version at this time but works very well and increase greatly the possibilities. To summarize, the Astralis pack is a real quality sound factory : almost all sounds can be created and give a total control on these sounds. And in this point of view it offer me more that I expected."

I'm Pleased to announce that Astralis 1.1 has been favorably reviewed:

Inspira Sons (French)

Inspira Sons (English Translation)

"si vous aimez créer des sonorités d'orientation électro-acoustique expérimentale, c'est le prototype du programme qui vous vaudra des nuits blanches. Et un son s'y transforme vite, après quelques modifications mineures, en une variante fort différente, donc quand vous l'aurez bien en main, votre sonothèque s'accroîtra rapidement."

Tom very kindly translated the conclusion for me:

"Astralis introduces itself as an instrument dedicated to textures creation and other spatial explorations. This allows you to expect the usual bath of flabby reverbs and spongy echoes that this kind of lyricism generally promises. Surprise : such is not the dominant colour. Astralis's deep nature proves to be more muscular than the one of your average "space synth", sometimes with a well-tempered aggressivity, without turning into FSU/destroy mash. Its armada of effects and its many features make it very versatile, but of course, buying it to program standard basses and classical leads will not be the most logical use. On the other hand, if you like to create experimental electro-acoustic oriented sounds, this is the perfect example of a software that will keep you awake at night. And a few minor variations are enough to transform a preset into a very different variant, so once that you will master the software, your patches library is bound to grow quickly."