Delay effect using MIR IR's?

[SJSF]

Hi everyone,

 

I've been wanting to explore a concept within my new Cubase template.

 

I want to know if it's possible to have a ping pong delay effect in which the left signal isn't simply panned, but the signal is routed to a specific IR within MIR, and the right to another. This would allow for greater control over the spatial quality of the delay. I can imagine splitting up a file and doing it manually. But I want to know is if there is a way to conveniently do this within Cubase before rendering a VST track as an audio file. Is there anyway to split the audio before going into MIR, or within MIR itself?

 

Any input?

 

Thanks,

Sean

[Dietz]

Route the delay signal into MIR and assign a General Purpose instrument profile to it. This will allow for using any stereo width and rotation, so you will be able to use any spot on a MIR Venue's stage for your delay. 

Just remember that the left and right handles of an MIR Icon determin the positions of the IRs used, not the center.

Alternatively you could split the delay signal into two mono channels and use two individual mono-to-stereo instances of MIR for each of them, but actually this is much more involved than the solution above. 

HTH,

[Dietz]

PS: Cubase and Nuendo don't support mono-to-stereo plug-ins directly. You would have to route a mono-signal to a stereo group before to achieve the solution I outlined in the second example.

[SJSF]

Deitz,

 

Thanks! Last quesiton: would there be a benefit in MIR to doing it the second way? In other words, would the stereo width option do the same thing, using two IR's... or would it use one IR and simply pan the signal? Ultimately what sounds good to the ear is the best option so I'll try both if I can get #2 working. But I'd still like to know what MIR is doing.

 

Thanks,

 

Sean

[Dietz]

Of course you get more options if you have a dedicated Icon for each single signal within MIR (... after all, that's what the whole MIR-concept is about! ;-) ...) - but honestly: I don't know if I would be willing to accept all the additional hassle just for better reverberation of a ping-pong echo. ;-D

Kind regards,

[SJSF]

Deitz,

 

I get that. I don't want to spend as much time programming instruments as other people do. I don't want to spend as much time mixing as other people do. I want to put notes down and have them sound great. That's just the thing. I'm playing with a new template concept now all for the point of not having to do this later. If I want delay with verb, MIR is already there and ready with it. So it may not be worth it all the time, but for a template perhaps it will be. :)

 

-Sean