The Sony DRE-2000 for which there are a huge number of impulse responses on offer, they have left no stone unturned. To be honest, going into this review I had little interest in these impulse responses, because Alitverb also offers up a great number of impulse responses of hardware reverbs, many rare and expensive. I guess for us dealing with music mixing that would not be of much use, but for film production I can see these being very useful indeed. There are also what would seem like some pretty useless stuff like bathrooms, bedrooms and office spaces. There are countless samples from cathedrals, concert halls and stadiums the world over, each adding an extraordinary sound to your recordings. The reason it is that big is because of the enormous number of impulse responses that it ships with. There is a whole lot more to it than that but that should be enough to understand what this plug-in is capable of doing.Īudio Ease Altiverb XL is a whopping 7GB in size which also makes it one of the biggest plugins I have ever used too. Thus recording the way a room or space responds to sound, and for our interests the decay of the sound reverberating within the space. Like I said earlier, in simple terms it is very much like sampling, but instead of sampling a sound, it is sampling the response of the room when a test tone is played in it. The standard Alitverb is €499.00 and the Altiverb XL plug-in is €849.00 making them the most expensive plug-ins I know of, and may just make you stop reading right now, but I urge you to continue as you will see the plug-in is worth ever cent! Impulse responses, what are they? While this review is based on the Alitverb XL, it applies to the standard stereo version too and that is how we have tested it. To put it into simple terms, it is to reverb what sampling was to keyboards back in the early 1980s.Īltiverb comes in two versions, a stereo plug-in limited to 96kHz samples rates, or this the XL version which is 5.1 surround capable at sample frequencies up to 384kHz. The Audio Ease Altiverb XL plug-in is a convolution reverb, meaning it uses impulse responses of ‘real’ spaces to capture the true essence of a room or concert hall. The Evolution of Sony Signal Processors.
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