![]() ![]() ![]() If you go to a church or other reverberant space and clap your hands, you immediately become aware of the acoustic environment you're in. Altiverb is a so‑called convolving (or sampling) reverb, and as such joins the £4500 Sony DRE S777 and £5500 Yamaha SREV1 - both hardware units - at the top of the 'real reverb' tree. Dutch company Audio Ease, who until recently have produced plug‑ins exclusively for MOTU's Digital Performer sequencer, are about to release their Altiverb in VST and (H)TDM formats to join the MAS‑format, G4‑only Altiverb that's been out for about nine months already. It's possible all that's about to change, though. For project studio owners the very best reverbs have always been aspirational and, more often than not, unaffordable items. Going down the hardware route (as so many people still do) quite respectable multi‑effects units can be had for £250, but companies like Lexicon and TC Electronic still charge four‑figure sums for their most classy sounding products, reflecting the finely honed (and often jealously guarded) algorithms they use, and the R&D time spent getting them to sound as they do. Things are, of course, better than they were 10 years ago, but good software reverb plug‑ins are few and far between, and even quite disappointing ones may well eat half your processor power. That's principally because creating believable acoustic environments will always be a complicated business, requiring complex mathematics and lots of processing power. Some things never change though, like the search for really good, affordable reverb processors. For example, most sequencers come bundled with dozens of plug‑ins, which could easily cost thousands of pounds to replace with hardware. You can get a lot of recording gear for comparatively little money these days, especially if you're prepared to commit to a software‑based setup. Now Audio Ease's Altiverb brings the same convolving technology to the Mac - at a fraction of the cost. The latest technological advances in reverb design have yielded expensive hardware units that can 'sample' the sound of real rooms. Bob Marleys 1973 Bathroom.irbulk DESIGN.irbulk Fattoria Musica.irbulk Festspielhaus BadenBaden.1.irbulk Gasholder Sneek 1.irbulk GEAR.irbulk Great Pyramid of Giza 1.irbulk Hallgrimskirkja Reykjavik.irbulk Hardenbergstrasse Berlin.irbulk Harpa Eldborg Reykjavik.irbulk Joseph Joachim Hall.irbulk Kings College Chapel CambridgeUK.2.irbulk Kings College Chapel CambridgeUK.irbulk Lanxess Arena Koeln.1.irbulk Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, NL Next Door III Coll 1.irbulk Opera of Ghent 1.irbulk POST.irbulk Sallede Musique Chauxde Fonds.irbulk SARM West Plates.irbulk SARM West Studios.irbulk Satsop Cooling Tower Bob Schwenkler 1.irbulk Selimiye Mosque.irbulk Selimiye Mosque 2.irbulk Sound Kitchen studio A Nashville 1.irbulk Sound Kitchen the big boy Nashville 1.irbulk Subway tunnel, Noordzuidlijn.irbulk Subway tunnel, Noordzuidlijn 2.irbulk Wembley Stadium London 1.A mono-to-stereo instance of Altiverb running an impulse response of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Recorded with 's for clarity and 4 Piezo's for the sounds in the wire. And after we heard the output of this monster we thought: 'oh my god: Yes'. Audio Ease's initial reaction was 'oh my god: Yes'. ![]() For this one I suspended 100 meters of 3.5mm galvanized steel in a long hallway. van Grieken) Jochem van Grieken writes: "An experiment with extremely long spring reverbs. He recorded using DPA 4006 omni mics and a Genelec 1031a speaker on a Deva 4 recorder. Peter recorded three depths in the main cell block and some perspectives from the solitary confinement cell. includes Alcatraz prison Peter Steinbach kindly shared the IR recordings he did in Alcatraz for all Altiverb users. ![]() All impulse response are available in Mono and Stereo and most also in Quad (for surround). These sets contain lots of sampled small rooms, cars, other interiors and also exteriors like streets, alleys sports stadiums and caverns. Altiverb Impulses | AudioZ Exclusive | 2.43GB Impulse responses sets intended for use in post production. ![]()
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