Altiverb 8 for the music?

[Alexander_D]

Hello. Just want to ask. Does Altiverb 8 XL worth price for music production?
I have. LiquidSonics Cinematic Rooms Pro and Fabfilter Pro-R2 btw. Just interesting. I am hear before that altiverb mostly for the post production... Thoughts?

[Vortifex]

Depends how comfortable you are spending a thousand euros on a reverb. Altiverb is certainly overkill for most music producers. If you want convolution reverb try Fog Convolver 2 or Reverberate 3. Altiverb is really for TV or film work.

[Alexander_D]

Depends how comfortable you are spending a thousand euros on a reverb. Altiverb is certainly overkill for most music producers. If you want convolution reverb try Fog Convolver 2 or Reverberate 3. Altiverb is really for TV or film work.

Thanks for your thoughts! I have stock Cubase convolution reverb BTW. But thinking about Seventh Heaven... or maybe really Reverberate? Hm

[jtsterays]

Super expensive but it's got the best IRs library on the market so there's that. XL is for surround which is overkill and Mac only atm.

[funky lime]

If you need a very specific location's sound (e.g. your drums were recorded at Hansa Studio and you want to get your piano to match the space), Altiverb is nice. But if you don't need that level of specificity, and you just need "reverb that sounds great on music," you absolutely do not need Altiverb, and especially not XL.

But hey, if you can afford to blow $900 on a reverb plugin, we're probably in the territory of "want" rather than "need," so do whatever makes you happy

[Alexander_D]

Super expensive but it's got the best IRs library on the market so there's that. XL is for surround which is overkill and Mac only atm.

Yeah, it's so strange that till this day they still haven't Windows version...

[Alexander_D]

If you need a very specific location's sound (e.g. your drums were recorded at Hansa Studio and you want to get your piano to match the space), Altiverb is nice. But if you don't need that level of specificity, and you just need "reverb that sounds great on music," you absolutely do not need Altiverb, and especially not XL.

But hey, if you can afford to blow $900 on a reverb plugin, we're probably in the territory of "want" rather than "need," so do whatever makes you happy

Of course I am not in this territory )))
I bought Cinematic Rooms Pro and really happy! Of course it's an algorithm reverb, but it's sounds great for me!

[Ah_Dziz]

Altiverb is a damn fine product with some really cool IRs of places that are not exactly easy to get into and record. You can get it second hand or on sale from time to time. I use 3 instances of it in my scoring template and it was definitely worth the 200 bucks I spent on it in time saved trying to place synthetic sounds with orchestral sounds. The factory library also includes extremely useful information about the spaces, microphones, mic distance and placement.

For regular, day to day production and mixing tasks I feel it still feels a useful role. There are some very very good "live room" impulses that sound great when trying to get a bunch of close mic recordings to sound like they belong together.

At then end of the day you're paying for a very nice and very well curated Impulse response library and with that you get a totally legit low CPU convolution reverb that you can still load whatever you want into. I didn't use IRs for much besides special effects and "body resonance" tricks before I got altiverb.

Still it isn't for everyone and it's a bit much at full price. If I was the developer I'd make, or contract someone else to make, a very nice set of non IR algorithms that could be run instead of or in addition to the convolver and try to really make Altiverb a 1 stop shop for reverb. I guess they're doing fine selling a copy to every production studio around though.

[Ah_Dziz]

Super expensive but it's got the best IRs library on the market so there's that. XL is for surround which is overkill and Mac only atm.

Yeah, it's so strange that till this day they still haven't Windows version...

The updates always come out for Mac first..... I guess they have their reasons. There are definitely windows versions up through v7. They just seem to lag behind. I will say that I've never had an issue with their stuff (bug, crash, etc). Audio ease definitely releases everything for Windows eventually though.

[machinesworking]

Pretty much what others Have said, I picked it up used here on KVR because of the library, and my younger years desire to own it. It's great sounding, but in terms of musicians who might want to use it live etc. it's a single iLok license, so it's a PITA to work with if you switch to a laptop at times.

Like people mentioned the library is fantastic, but it really is sort of overkill if you're not working in TV or Film etc.

[Alexander_D]

Pretty much what others Have said, I picked it up used here on KVR because of the library, and my younger years desire to own it. It's great sounding, but in terms of musicians who might want to use it live etc. it's a single iLok license, so it's a PITA to work with if you switch to a laptop at times.

Like people mentioned the library is fantastic, but it really is sort of overkill if you're not working in TV or Film etc.

Yeah, I am not in post-production area. Mainly in composing music for the films and theater...

[machinesworking]

Yeah, I am not in post-production area. Mainly in composing music for the films and theater...

It's definitely useful for that kind of work, you can find a reverb that sits in with the ambiance of the scene you're composing to etc.

[Alexander_D]

Yeah, I am not in post-production area. Mainly in composing music for the films and theater...

It's definitely useful for that kind of work, you can find a reverb that sits in with the ambiance of the scene you're composing to etc.

Yeah.. but at this time I bought Cinematic Ros Pro. Sounds really good... of cou it's not a convolution reverb... but for the music it's sounds sweet and warm