Finally, you can make your own samples and it's not that hard! Without going into too much detail, we sampled our studio (The Hangar-and it only took an hour or so. ![]() To help with this, the latency (in samples) is listed for each impulse response preset. In practice (unless you're using it in no latency mode and only using DP as a shell) you'll need to print Altiverb to disc and then "pre-lay" the track to compensate for latency. We have some nice Lexicon reverbs (PCM-91 and PCM-60) but Altiverb is in a whole 'nother realm. In practice, the reverb sounds real and unlike any digital reverb that I've ever heard. Obviously, this is a simplistic explanation and the geniuses at Audio Ease could explain it better, but I think you get the point. The sampling reverb software then removes the impulse response leaving the "sample" of the reverb that other instruments can be played through. Then, an impulse response is played over the loudspeaker and recorded. In the room you want to sample, a high quality monitor speaker is placed and two or more high quality instrumentation mics are set up. Before I go much further, a brief explantion of sampling reverb is in order. ![]() You can also see a JPEG photo of the room sampled and where the mics were placed. You can choose between high and low latency modes (forget about doing much else to speak of on the computer in low latency mode), adjust the wet/dry balance and pre-delay, and decrease the impulse sample's decay time. There's not a lot to the Altiverb interface. Even if you don't use DP, you could buy Altiverb, a G4 Cube and DP for about 1/3 of what the Sony box costs and have a dedicated sampling reverb. With all due respect to Sony and their spokesman Bruce Swieden, Altiverb is the sampling reverb for the rest of us. Sony also charges for additional reverb impulses while Altiverb gives them away for free on their web site. It is a sampling reverb like the Sony DRE S777 sampling reverb-the difference is that the Sony box costs $9,000, while Altiverb is $500. Altiverb only does one thing, but it does it amazingly well. It will only run on a Macintosh G4 (using the Mac's Altivec co-processor) and only with Digital Performer (Although a VST and RTAS version is expected soon). The Altiverb 7.0.5 is a separate download and runs in all versions of Pro Tools 8, 9 and 10.This is one very amazing, albeit very specialized, piece of software.
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