For your convenience, the following except from legacy Vienna MIR's manual contains the Character Preset typology I mentioned above:
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Character Presets
The fact that MIR "knows"Â a lot about the instruments on its stages makes it possible to supply very deep and customized ways of handling them. It provides for the seemingly simple but highly efficient way of changing an Instrument's timbre or "character"Â by applying one of MIR's built-in Character Presets.
Individual, hand-crafted Character Presets are available for every single Vienna Instrument (with the exception of a few less commonly used percussions). Provided that the suitable Instrument Profile was applied (...), there will be at least five "colors"Â to choose from just by clicking on the pull-down menu bar.
Common settings are:
- Pure (no Character Preset applied; default)
- Air
- Silk / Silver
- Bite
- Distant
- Warm
HINT: Most of the time, selecting an adequate Character Preset will show that little (if any) other processing is necessary down the line. (...).
CAUTION: If you have the feeling that your computer is running out of CPU power, be aware that some Character Presets may use up quite a bit of it. ... that's a non-issue in 2019. ;-)
In cases were there are no customized settings for an instrument or if a General Purpose profile is employed, more generalized presets are used. Those presets are marked with additional asterisks (*) after the name.
... it is hard to explain sound in words! So why don't you take a look at the following, generalized examples of how a specific MIR Character Preset will change the sound of an instrument.
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library