KVR Audio

sidrat · Post by **sidrat** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:22 pm

bugs wrote:The convolution engine is as important as the IRs.

that's actually not the case. all things being equal, the impulses make much more of a difference than the convolution method. i recently did an informal test of impulses from altiverb, ir1, space designer, tl space and noisevault. i compared emt 140/250, lex480 and cello rooms and the results were surprising - the ir1 impulses sounded the best...

AKJ · Post by **AKJ** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:31 pm

how did the noisvault IRs perform in comparison with the commercial stuff? Did you also check Impulse Modeler IRs. I found them, alhough being artificially craeted, very convincing.

akj

sidrat · Post by **sidrat** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:49 pm

AKJ wrote:how did the noisvault IRs perform in comparison with the commercial stuff? Did you also check Impulse Modeler IRs. I found them, alhough being artificially craeted, very convincing.

i haven't tried the impulse modeler ir's yet - thanks for the tip

as for the ones i tried, i'd rate them as follows:

1) ir1
2) altiverb
3) noisevault
4) tl space
5) space designer

some of the free noisevault ir's sounded better than i expected... especially when you consider that tl space costs $500... just my opinion, though.

Green Red Brownell · Post by **Green Red Brownell** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:18 am

CANE CREEK wrote:This months 'Future music' magazine lined up Altiverb5 , space designer & Waves IR-1 v2 and let them fight it out.

IR-1's achilles heel is its price its just too high , yet it did get placed slightly ahead of 'space designer' when it came to sound quality.

Altiverb5 took first place due to its features,its flexibility and sheer beauty of sound.

Well, I guess that soon enough we might have AltiVerb on the PC, eh??

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:26 am

Who needs it? All you need is ORION Platinum version 6 and you can convo your little heart out for free [upgrade, that is].

Green Red Brownell · Post by **Green Red Brownell** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:27 am

Rajah wrote:
CANE CREEK wrote: Altiverb5 took first place due to its features,its flexibility and sheer beauty of sound.
Too bad it's just for Macs.. But it is a beauty in design also (GUI).

You forget that Macs are turning into PC's... that was the point of my previous post...

Green Red Brownell · Post by **Green Red Brownell** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:31 am

BONES wrote:Who needs it? All you need is ORION Platinum version 6 and you can convo your little heart out for free [upgrade, that is].

In fact, I may not need it.... it'll probalby be the high-priced spread no matter what the host. But it will be nice that it is at least *available*, eh??

dburgan · Post by **dburgan** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:57 pm

Maybe Altiverb will finally import WAV files as IRs ... harrrumph.

sidrat · Post by **sidrat** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:19 pm

dburgan wrote:Maybe Altiverb will finally import WAV files as IRs ... harrrumph.

that'd be nice...

What's the quality difference between convution reverbs?